History Quotes

Jeff Bridges is one of my favorite actors in the history of ever.

When 99% of people doubt your idea, you're either gravely wrong or about to make history.

When history is written as it ought to be written, it is the moderation and long patience of the masses at which men will wonder, not their ferocity.

History is written by the victors, but it's victims who write the memoirs.

History should remember Blair and Bush as the killers of children, or as the lying prime minister and president.

Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects.

The normal make a living. The deranged make history.

Numerous politicians have seized absolute power and muzzled the press. Never in history has the press seized absolute power and muzzled the politicians.

Visual surprise is natural in the Caribbean; it comes with the landscape, and faced with its beauty, the sigh of History dissolves.

History is a kind of introduction to more interesting people than we can possibly meet in our restricted lives; let us not neglect the opportunity.

The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women

Surely if we have learned anything from the history of morals it is that the thing to do with a moral quandary is not to hide it.

I know I'm one of the biggest busts in NBA history...

Dachau-the significance of this name will never be erased from German history. It stands for all concentration camps which the Nazis established in their territory.

The history of a people are found in its songs.

Those in power write the history while those who suffer write the songs.

If we look at music history closely, it is not difficult to isolate certain elements of great potency which were to nourish the art of music for decades, if not centuries.

The songs of our ancestors are also the songs of our children

Great men are usually the products of their times and one of the men developed by these times takes rank with the greatest railroad leaders in history.

I will be the first woman president of Mexico in history.

We are in a world of irredeemable paper money - a state of affairs unprecedented in history.

If the history of science shows us anything, it is that we get nowhere by labeling our ignorance “God”.

Sleep was the greatest invention in the history of mankind. When I was sleeping, I wasn’t feeling guilty, or miserable, or sad.

The falsification of history has done more to impede human development than any one thing known to mankind.

Old books exert a strange fascination for me -- their smell, their feel, their history; wondering who might have owned them, how they lived, what they felt.

You are pitiful isolated individuals; you are bankrupts; your role is played out. Go where you belong from now on - into the dustbin of history!

The history of my state of Oklahoma offers a great example of pursuing the American Dream. It was built and settled by pioneers moving West to seek better lives.

Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world, and thus with the history of the human spirit.

From the totalitarian point of view, history is something to be created rather than learned.

The great thing about serving the poor is that there is no competition.

Some people make headlines while others make history.

[T]he historian must serve two masters, the past and the present.

The only hope is that our civilization will collapse at a certain point, as always happens in history. Then, out of barbarity, a renaissance.

I'm mostly concentrating now on continuing to make history in Hip-Hop, making everybody proud of me, I'm not just a rapper now, I'm in history now.

Ideally, brewers interpret history, and through science they create art.

Downton Abbey is the most popular drama in the history of public television. When the whole of the TV universe is fragmenting, that isn't just impressive. It's almost impossible. But here we are.

History shows that it is not only senseless and cruel, but also difficult to state who is a foreigner.

Democracy in itself does not define or guarantee a free society. History has told many stories of democratic societies that have degenerated into corruption, plunder, and tyranny.

All the lessons of history and experience must be lost upon us if we are content to trust alone to the peculiar advantages we happen to possess.

We must come to understand our past, our history, in terms of the soil and water and forests and grasses that have made it what it is.

History is a symphony of echoes heard and unheard. It is a poem with events as verses.

Michael Jordon may have been the best basketball player in history, but he couldn't have won six NBA titles without a team.

History is not another name for the past, as many people imply. It is the name for stories about the past.

The time is not come for impartial history. If the truth were told just now, it would not be credited.

Despite recent sad developments, cricket will survive and remain our most noble game and I shall always remain proud of the part I played in its history and development.

History isn't through with me yet.

If you want to get an idea across, wrap it up in a person.

History is moving pretty quickly these days, and the heroes and villains keep on changing parts.

The only real struggle in the history of the world ... is between the vested interest and social justice.

To understand a science it is necessary to know its history.