Best Historic Proverbs
300 Historic quotes by 263 unique authors
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I think every religious person should have a deep sense of respect for other people's religious documents and religious symbols just as we were deeply…
— Newt Gingrich
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I listen to archival and historic recordings. I love watching singers. I learned a lot from watching videos.
— Renee Fleming
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Films are amazing. To be a part of a movie is the greatest. It's so historic and exciting.
— Jennifer Love Hewitt
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To conclude that women are unfitted to the task of our historic society seems to me the equivalent of closing male eyes to female facts.
— Lyndon B. Johnson
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At certain historic moments, grandparents took on childrearing responsibilities. In many cultures, they still do. Chinese grandparents who are able to retire at 55 are…
— Erica Jong
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Fortunately, historians are now beginning to recognise the historic role of Islam as a liberating force for peoples oppressed by the burdens of unjust social…
— Aly Khan
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African-Americans who might have disagreed with candidate Obama's left-of-center politics voted for him in 2008 because electing a candidate with brown skin was too historic…
— Alveda King
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For a novelist, a given historic situation is an anthropologic laboratory in which he explores his basic question: What is human existence?
— Milan Kundera
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A world in which government is burdened by historic debt, philanthropy has limited resources, and the private sector is only interested in its own personal…
— Simon Mainwaring
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The United States is at a critical juncture in time. Our government is riddled with historic debt, and the limited resources of philanthropic and non-profit…
— Simon Mainwaring
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I told them how excited I would be to go into space and how thrilled I was when Alan Shepard made his historic flight, and…
— Christa McAuliffe
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It is, all in all, a historic error to believe that the master makes the school; the students make it!
— Robert Musil
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There are historic situations in which refusal to defend the inheritance of a civilization, however imperfect, against tyranny and aggression may result in consequences even…
— Reinhold Niebuhr
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After a century of striving, after a year of debate, after a historic vote, health care reform is no longer an unmet promise. It is…
— Barack Obama
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My heart goes out to the brave citizens of Syria, who each day risk and even sacrifice their lives to achieve freedom from a murderous…
— Shimon Peres
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I won't predict anything historic. But nothing is impossible.
— Michael Phelps
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Tom Hanks, who starred in 'The Da Vinci Code,' turns out to be related to a number of the historic characters that feature in 'The…
— Steven Pinker
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Obama's victory in November 2008 was a historic political accomplishment.
— John Podhoretz
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Russia will not soon become, if it ever becomes, a second copy of the United States or England - where liberal value have deep historic…
— Vladimir Putin
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We believe that the European Union is facing a truly historic choice.
— Jean-Pierre Raffarin
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With the recent news that the State of Florida has agreed to purchase 181,000 acres of U.S. Sugar land, we have an historic opportunity for…
— Debbie Wasserman Schultz
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As a Jew, it is my historic responsibility to defend the Jewish people. I feel this responsibility for the survival of the Jewish people. We're…
— Ariel Sharon
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Man lives consciously for himself, but is an unconscious instrument in the attainment of the historic, universal, aims of humanity.
— Leo Tolstoy
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The historic ascent of humanity, taken as a whole, may be summarized as a succession of victories of consciousness over blind forces - in nature,…
— Leon Trotsky
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My most ardent desire is that my country will recapture its historic opportunity for a peaceful evolution and that Poland will prove to the world…
— Lech Walesa
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