History Quotes · Page 91

“Teaching history to eighth graders is like being a tour guide for people who hate their vacation.”

— Chuck Klosterman

The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

You are not just a photojournalist, you're a historian.

— Bill Eppridge

I did not say history was bunk. It was bunk to me . . I did not need it very bad.

— Henry Ford

The history of our spiritual life is a continuing search for the unity between ourselves and the world.

— Rudolf Steiner

History never looks like history when you are living through it.

— John W. Gardner

“The trouble with history, it seems to me, is that there are too many people involved.”

— Nick Hornby

I needed to talk about my real personal history, in order to become free of it.

— Paulo Coelho

Somewhat by historical happenstance the five permanent members of the UN Security Council - United States, Britain, France, Russia, and China -…

— John Burroughs

People want much the same things, but they have been formed by history to have a particular perception of the other.

— Desmond Tutu

There are many oral historians in America, but my books are made using the rules of novel writing. I have a beginning,…

— Svetlana Alexievich

If you don't learn about each other, you do not understand each other, and you don't hide warts and all, both sides,…

— Warren Mundine

There are several rivalries in MMA and vale tudo history, like jiu-jitsu vs. luta livre and Chute Boxe vs. Brazilian Top Team.…

— Patricio Freire

The evolution of exploitation. From imperialism, colonization to globalization different terminologies same procedure.

— Fabian Abeku Spada Amoo

This stadium is the history of football, the most important arena in Italy. Stepping into San Siro always has an effect on…

— Leonardo Bonucci

A lot of networks don't want to touch controversial subjects, and especially stuff that deals with race and history.

— Mike Jackson

It is the Soviet Union that runs against the tide of history . . . . [It is] the march of freedom…

— Ronald Reagan

“There are outrages and there are outrages, and some are more outrageous than others. Mankind is resilient: the atrocities that horrified us…

— Joseph Heller

Everything has happened before - not once, but over and over again. We may not be able to solve our problems through…

— Anonymous

And what we students of history always learn is that the human being is a very complicated contraption and that they are…

— Robert Penn Warren

“We have reached a turning point in history in which major historical processes are partly caused by the decisions of nonhuman intelligence.…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“The historic importance of the Khidr story is unfortunate, given another lesson that emerges from it in Islamic tradition: don’t kill children,…

— Robert Spencer

I do lament how many investors focus on all the short-term sugar buzz of some marginal improvement in something - nothing history…

— Steve Jurvetson

“So time continued on slowly and painfully. Perhaps the old analogy of being a record stuck on repeat had become too dated;…

— Anna Aquino

There's a lot of revisionist history that goes on these days about Iraq.

— Joe Biden

In this respect, the history of science, like the history of all civilization, has gone through cycles.

— Abdus Salam

“We have no control over fate and history, but we can control how we conduct ourselves in this life.”

— Jessica Zafra

“STORY” is more than half of the word “HISTORY”. And that’s no accident.”

— Glenn Beck

It's fair to say that the Bible contains equal amounts of fact, history, and pizza.

— Penn Jillette

I want to record the name of Chen Guangbiao in Chinese history.

— Chen Guangbiao

The greatest humanistic and historical task of the oppressed: to liberate themselves...

— Paulo Freire

Out of Coltrane's whole history, there are things which I think are great from all the periods.

— Lee Konitz

“Sometimes, you have to manufacture your own history. Give fate a push, so to speak.”

— Sarah Dessen

It appears history is going to keep happening, despite our hopes for retirement.

— Gregory Maguire

The history of life is written in terms of negative entropy.

— James Gleick

It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.

— Henry James

Tony Kaye is great with that kind of stuff. Up until American History X, he had only done commercials.

— Ethan Suplee

I believe that each fight teaches you something, and a new history is written in each fight.

— Juan Manuel Marquez

As history has shown, I don't think the UFC is in the business of doing favors for other people.

— Aljamain Sterling

I must admit, maybe I am a piece of history after all.

— Alan Shepard