History Quotes · Page 80

“...you don't fully appreciate what you've got until something threatens to take it away.”

— Melody Carlson

History does not merely touch on language, but takes place in it.

— Theodor Adorno

What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.

— Victor Hugo

People don't alter history any more than birds alter the sky, they just make brief patterns in it.

— Terry Pratchett

“Under every roof, a story, just as behind every brow, a history”

— Gregory Maguire

History, writing, infect after a time a man's sense of himself...

— A. S. Byatt

If you do your history, pro wrestling is just the worked version of what MMA is.

— Shayna Baszler

True, I have raped history, but it has produced some beautiful offspring.

— Alexandre Dumas

In the summer of 1956, my mother was pregnant with me, which caused my father to confess his fear that I was…

— David Shields

First of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself - nameless,…

— Anonymous

The history of science shows that theories are perishable. With every new truth that is revealed we get a better understanding of…

— Nikola Tesla

As a lover of football, I know all the great players that have made history at Juventus such as Zidane, Platini and…

— Blaise Matuidi

“You told me once that history matters, but it's frozen, set in stone. This is part of our history. I can't change…

— Cora Carmack Finding It

There are not two histories, one profane and one sacred, 'juxtaposed' or 'closely linked.' Rather there is only one human destiny.

— Gustavo Gutiérrez

My biggest life lesson is that the past is the past. I do my best not to bring history into my present.…

— Dash Mihok

From tea parties to the election in Massachusetts, we are witnessing the single greatest political pushback in American history.

— Marco Rubio

Mankind today is still making history without having any conscious idea of what it really wants or under what conditions it would…

— Norman O. Brown

History shows us that the people who end up changing the world - the great political, social, scientific, technological, artistic, even sports…

— John Eliot

I grab all the stuff I need and shooed them out of the kitchen. Heath came back in right after. Need any…

— Jade

“Aeschines knew that if he had any hopes of humbling his charismatic rival, he had to reinforce his views with facts, not…

— Nicholas A. Basbanes

Since history has no properly scientific value, its only purpose is educative. And if historians neglect to educate the public, if they…

— G. M. Trevelyan

“The patient accretion of knowledge, the focusing of all one's energies on some problem in history or science, the dogged pursuit of…

— Michael Dirda

As nations we should also commit afresh to righting past wrongs. In Australia we began this recently with the first Australians -…

— Kevin Rudd

Throughout Johnson Space Center's history, contributions to STEM innovation and discoveries has been both through new technologies developed to advance human spaceflight…

— Ellen Ochoa

All revolutions in history have obstacles. There is not a revolution that succes.

— Nawal El Saadawi

You made me an option, now I'm going to make you history. Lost and forgotten.

— Anonymous

“One should never underestimate the role of stupidity in history”

— Ervand Abrahamian

Today, we don't talk about history. The past is two weeks ago, and the future is two weeks after.

— Marjane Satrapi

“p4- the history that now effects everyman is world history”

— C.Wright Mills

Drinking wine and wearing trousers were nothing compared to reading the history of ideas.

— Ayaan Hirsi Ali

I feel reinvigorated, having fresh energy and fresh ideas, and merging that with the history I have.

— Kylie Minogue

Research can be a big clunker. It's difficult to know how you can make the historical light.

— Michael Ondaatje

“In the last 3,421 years of recorded history, only 268 have seen no war”

— Will Durant 1968

History furnishes to politics all the arguments that it needs, for the chosen cause.

— Romain Rolland

It's a huge club with great history and it's a real honour to perform for United.

— Fred

“Don't waste time defending your intentions. History will judge you by the outcomes of your actions”

— Savania China

History is philosophy teaching by example, and also warning; its two eyes are geography and chronology.

— James A. Garfield

The chief practical use of history is to deliver us from plausible historical analogies.

— James Bryce

America is the greatest nation in the history of the world. There's nothing like America.

— Rudy Giuliani

The Iliad is the private lives of people thrown into disorder by history.

— Raymond Queneau