History Quotes

I have a hippopotamus skull next to my bed, called Gregory. When I was six, my three sisters and I clubbed together and paid £4 for it in a junk shop. We collected owl pellets, ostrich eggs and sheep skulls for our natural history museum at home.

Deborah Moggach
- Home
- Together
- Owl
History rewards those who can change their minds when the stakes are high.

Andy Dunn
- History
- High

I honestly think anthropology is one of the most useful fields a fantasy writer can study, more so even than history.

Marie Brennan
- History
- Study
The cable package continues to be the greatest value in the history of entertainment. The average hour watched on cable television costs between 15 and 25 cents. For most people who cannot afford other kinds of entertainment, it is their entertainment.

John Skipper
- People
- History
- Value
When we look out into space, we're looking back in time; the light from a galaxy a billion light-years away, for instance, will take a billion years to reach us. It's an amazing thing. The history is there for us to see. It's not mushed up like the geologic record of Earth. You can just see it exactly as it was.

Margaret Geller
- Up
- Time
- Earth
The invention of the printing press was one of the most important events in human history.

Ha-Joon Chang
- Important
- History
- Events
It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing Prison or Harvard. We hire a man, not his history.

Malcolm Forbes
- History
- Man
- Prison
Emotions come first, and in the most direct sense: you first have an emotion and then have a feeling. But also first in the history of the human race, for the ability to have emotions long preceded the ability to have feelings.

Ian Hacking
- Long
- Feeling
- Feelings