Historic Quotes

300 Historic quotes by 263 unique authors

The new millennium began with a great global dream. World leaders gathered at the United Nations in 2000 and adopted, among others, a historic goal… — Muhammad Yunus
No government has the right to decide on the truth of scientific principles, nor to prescribe in any way the character of the questions investigated.… — Richard P. Feynman
Ruins stood for what was lost, and yet there were beautiful-peaceful, historic, intellectual. Not tragic or regrettable. Lena tried to keep hers that way too,… — Ann Brashares
Until that moment, I hadn’t realized that I embarked on the project of touring historic sites and monuments having to do with the assassinations of… — Sarah Vowell
One way or another the no doubt mad idea entered my mind that my own actions had historic importance and this fantasy (?) made it… — Saul Bellow
We're out of cocktail olives, it's a tragedy of historic proportions, but we're coping because we're Americans. — Dean Koontz
The handy thing about being a father is that the historic standard is so pitifully low. — Michael Chabon
We do not know whether Hitler is going to found a new Islam. He is already on the way; he is like Mohammad. The emotion… — Carl Jung
Crosses and gallows - that deadly historic juxtaposition. — Howard Zinn
Historic figures have homes to visit for posterity; the Lord of history left no home. Luminaries leave libraries and write their memoirs; He left one… — Ravi Zacharias
The arenas are historic sites, preserved after the Games. Popular destinations for Capitol residents to visit, to vacation. Go for a month, rewatch the Games,… — Suzanne Collins
The broader problem is that a great deal of popular preaching and teaching uses the bible as a pegboard on which to hang a fair… — D. A. Carson
Changing the structure and rules of the global economy will require a mass movement based on messages of compassion, justice, and equality, as well as… — Medea Benjamin
Real freedom comes from the mastery, through knowledge, of historic conditions and race character, which makes possible a free and intelligent use of experience for… — Hamilton Wright Mabie
...We have an historic opportunity for a great global healing and renewal. If we will accept the challenge of nonviolent activism with faith, courage, and… — Coretta Scott King
Ten thousand times has the labor movement stumbled and bruised itself. We have been enjoined by the courts, assaulted by thugs, charged by the militia,… — Eugene V. Debs
The first footfalls on Mars will mark a historic milestone, an enterprise that requires human tenacity matched with technology to anchor ourselves on another world. — Buzz Aldrin
I was born a year after Lindbergh made his historic trip across the Atlantic. Boys like either dinosaurs or airplanes. I was very much an… — Jim Lovell
The Eurasian union is a project meant to preserve the identities of nations and the historic Eurasian community in the new century, in a new… — Vladimir Putin
The Declaration on Strategic Partnership between India and Russia signed in October 2000 became a truly historic step. The developments in the first decade of… — Vladimir Putin
Whether it be in comics, games or film, you can trace the art direction and influences back to some earlier, real-life historic period or artistic… — Jim Lee
The assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr., and Robert F. Kennedy led directly to the passage of a historic law, the Gun Control Act of… — Jeffrey Toobin
As a teenager, Monica Seles won some historic matches on the tennis court, dominating opponents and filling a room with trophies. — Don Yaeger
I have never collected an object or figure from Africa or Oceania because of anything curious about it or because of its utility or historic… — Frank Crowninshield
The biggest accomplishment, in racial terms, for Barack Obama was being elected. He had to overcome his blackness to be elected. He climbed the Mt.… — Randall Kennedy

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