Skip to content

History Quote by Tony Blair

“A day like today is not a day for soundbites, really. But I feel the hand of history upon our shoulders. I really do.” quote by Tony Blair — Download Open image

“A day like today is not a day for soundbites, really. But I feel the hand of history upon our shoulders. I really do.”

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (3 ratings)

History Irony Northern ireland

More by Tony Blair

I happen to think it's the politics that makes you electable, but the reason for that is politicians sometimes talk about electability as if…

Image

I have absolutely no doubt at all that we will find evidence of weapons of mass destruction programmes.

Image

I mean, you can agree or disagree with Iraq or Afghanistan, but by the way, now the great campaigning cause out there is the…

Image

My dad was a militant atheist, or is a militant atheist. My mum was sort of bought up in a religious family because she…

Image

Politics may be the art of the possible, but at least in life, give the impossible a go.

Image

I also, as I think most people do, have a healthy instinct that if we upset the balance of nature, we are in all…

Image

It is not a sensible or intelligent response for us in Europe to ridicule American arguments and parody their political leadership.

Image

I am absolutely delighted to give my full support to Gordon as the next leader of the Labour Party and as prime minister and…

Image

Society works by putting opportunity and responsibility together.

Image

The great advantage of the Lib Dems is precisely that no-one knows what they stand for

Image

People know where I stand in the Labour party and what I believe in.

Image

The only society that works today is also one founded on mutual respect, on a recognition that we have a responsibility collectively and individually,…

Image

Explore all 363 Tony Blair quotes

More History quotes

Histories never conclude; they just pause their prose. Their stories are, if they are truthful, untidy affairs, resistant to windings-up and sortings-out. They beat…

Image

It is said that history turns on small hinges. A human career, too, results from an accumulating series of decisions about large and small…

Norman Vincent Peale

Image

The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records…

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Image

In the entire history of the universe, let alone in your own history, there has never been another day just like today, and there…

Frederick Buechner

Image

The NBA is my history.

Image

History has often showed us the strength of the forces that are unleashed by the yearning for freedom. It moved people to overcome their…

Image

We find few historians who have been diligent enough in their search for truth; it is their common method to take on trust what…

Image

What is history after all? History is facts which become lies in the end.

Image

Things live and die, and then someone processes them into edible portions. This is a complete telling of the story, 'Food.' The basic plot…

David Fahrenthold

Image

History is a certain way, but you just change the point of view a little bit, and you discover a whole new side of…

Allison Schroeder

Image

We're at a point in history were we have to become a part of the neighborhood of inhabited planets, like a neighborhood of a…

Image

Today is a reality, tomorrow's a promise, and yesterday's history!

Image

Browse all 26,901 History quotes