History Books Quotes
82 History Books quotes by 75 unique authors
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I truly believe that when the history books are written, our age will be remembered for three things: the war on terror, the digital revolution,…
— Bono
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During the Depression, or back when we were fighting Hitler, people didn't have time to sue a company if the coffee was too hot. There…
— Bill Maher
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The mountain of history books under which we all stand leans so heavily in the other direction-so tremblingly respectful of states and statesmen and so…
— Howard Zinn
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The problem is there are people in this country - maybe 10%, I don't know what the number, maybe 20% on a bad day -…
— Chris Matthews
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I'm not the creative one. I know that. If Rory Storm hadn't come along... and then The Beatles... I would have continued running around in…
— Ringo Starr
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When it comes time to default, they’re not going to remember any of the Republicans’ names. They are going to remember in history books one…
— Donald Trump
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I only know two cats in this business that really had it all; Elvis was one of those guys, the other was Ricky Nelson. There…
— Carl Perkins
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All my life, I never believed most things I read in history books and a lot of things I learned in school. But now I've…
— Kurt Cobain
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And the history books forgot about us, and the bible didn’t mention us
— Regina Spektor
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Happy the people whose annals are blank in the history books!
— Thomas Carlyle
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Life is a wonderful thing to talk about, or to read about in history books - but it is terrible when one has to live…
— Jean Anouilh
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On the announcement that signs of extra terrestrial life were found in a meteorite, August 6, 1996 A hundred years from now Bob Dole's new…
— Richard E. Berendzen
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It might be a good idea if the various countries of the world would occasionally swap history books, just to see what other people are…
— Bill Vaughan
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I know that I'm already in the history books and that people are going to remember me as the prisoner of war and the fabricated…
— Jessica Lynch
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According to energy medicine, we are all living history books. Our bodies contain our histories- every chapter, line and verse of every event and relationship…
— Caroline Myss
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As you grow older and young people come up to you with their history books, you realize that some of the things I have been…
— Jackie Joyner-Kersee
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There are two kinds of books in the world--the boring kind they make you read in school and the interesting kind that they won't let…
— LouAnne Johnson
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I really couldn't say how famous I really am, that's for the history books to decide. But I'll probably be pretty up there.
— Zach Braff
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White America has seen to it that Black history has been suppressed in schools and in American history books. The bravery of hundreds of our…
— Huey Newton
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Think of Florence, Paris, London, New York. Nobody visiting them for the first time is a stranger because he's already visited them in paintings, novels,…
— Alasdair Gray
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You read about me in history books, but now I am dedicated to spreading the truth about preserving the dignity of all human life from…
— Norma McCorvey
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On this International Day for the Abolition of Slavery let us reaffirm the inherent dignity of all men, women and children. And let us redouble…
— Ban Ki-moon
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As long as there are history books, Neil Armstrong will be included in them, remembered for taking humankind’s first small step on a world beyond…
— Charles Bolden
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But the participants [in war] never forgot the details of their experience, and like the Wandering Jew, they were condemned to remain their own history…
— James Lee Burke
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History is written by winners, so most history books are about people who win.
— Harold S. Kushner
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