History Quotes
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I have set my life upon a cast, And I will stand the hazard of the die.
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The awful wrongs and sufferings forced upon the innocent, helpless, faithful animal race form the blackest chapter in the whole world's history.
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This then, I thought, as I looked round about me, is the representation of history. It requires a falsification of perspective. We, the survivors, see everything from above, see everything at once, and still we do not know how it was.
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When you grew up in France in the 1970s and 80s, the Vel' d'Hiv wasn't part of the history program.
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Michael Jordon may have been the best basketball player in history, but he couldn't have won six NBA titles without a team.
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I'm thrilled, I'm grateful, I'm blessed. I played for the world's greatest professional sports team in history. Once a Dallas Cowboy, always a Dallas Cowboy.
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I think one of the bigger issues with modern-day people is that we don't give enough credit to people from history as being real. We almost treat them as these rarified beings that didn't exist the way that we do with emotions and urges and drives.
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Politicians are often tempted to deploy history as a weapon against each other.
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We are well aware that religion is not as bad an influence as it was a short time ago, as history is counted. But it is a sufficiently bad influence even in modern times, and its reduced viciousness (in practice) is due plainly enough to its reduced power.
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As we struggle to overcome our troubles, we are making history and fulling our destiny. Keep pressing!
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I feel like our history and our roots make us who we are.
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I've never lived through a moment in history where people are using their voices and becoming strong advocates for what they believe in.
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We are born, we live, we disappear. One of the chilling aspects of history is the swiftness with which it carries us into oblivion.
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Perhaps the most important lesson of the New Social Historians is that history belongs to those about whom or whose documents survive.
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So when I read this story, it unlocked a volcano of unanswered questions, because the questions had never been asked. It was an opportunity to come to terms with the lot of repressed history - and history of repression.
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Bush does not want to go down in history as the president who lost in Iraq. His strategy to the extent he has one is to hang tough and let whoever succeeds him take the fall.
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I think respectful conflict is intrinsic to the spirit of literature. It reminds us that literary history is living and evolving and thrives on us being active participants.
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The study of history, it seems to me, leads to the conviction that all important events tend toward the same end - the civilization of mankind.
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If the only significant history of human thought were to be written, it would have to be the history of its successive regrets and its impotences.
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I just feel honored to play Wonder Woman in some incarnation. She's got such history, and she's, like, the first female superhero.
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You know, the way art history is taught, often there's nothing that tells you why the painting is great. The description of a lousy painting and the description of a great painting will very much sound the same.
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Roman history was kind of unavoidable where I was growing up. It was everywhere - all the place names and ruins and forts. My dad's a history buff, and I spent a lot of time on Hadrian's Wall. I became fascinated by the idea of what was so terrifying up there that the Romans built a 60-mile long, 30ft high stone wall to keep it out?
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Other men are known to posterity only through the medium of history, which is continually growing faint and obscure; but the intercourse between the author and his fellow-men is ever new, active, and immediate.
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For the first time in history, drug addicts and drunks—once viewed as human wreckage that drained families and society of resources—had become valuable properties. People could make fortunes off them.
