History Quotes
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I extract what I consider the best material from different sources. But often the material I perform comes from a very strange location in history, which are minstrel shows.
Leon Redbone
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History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are.
David McCullough
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We shall be remembered in history as the most cruel, and therefore the most unwise, generation of men that ever yet troubled the earth: - the most cruel in proportion to their sensibility, - the most unwise in proportion to their science. No people, understanding pain, ever inflicted so much: no people, understanding facts, ever acted on them so little.
John Ruskin
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History repeats itself. That's one of the things wrong with history.
Clarence Darrow
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The emergence of Uber X was really the most important pivot maybe in the history of Silicon Valley. It's a vast majority of Uber's revenues, and so that flexibility and the rapid growth and the fighting the battles, it's all Travis. You can't take any credit away from him.
Brad Stone
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May the friends of America rejoice! May her enemies be humbled and her censors silenced at the news of her noble exertions in continuance of those principles which have placed her so high in the annals of history and among the nations of the earth.
Marquis de Lafayette
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In history and in life one sometimes seems to glimpse a ferocious law which states: 'to he that has, will be given; from he that has not, will be taken away.'
Primo Levi
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Wisely used history can give pleasure and provide us with a useful tool; but we should not become its slaves.
Douglas Hurd
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You can't walk alone. Many have given the illusion, but none have really walked alone. Man is not made that way. Each man is bedded in his people, their history, their culture, and their values.
Peter Abrahams
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In fact, the American Mastodon vanished around thirteen thousand years ago. Its demise was part of a wave of disappearances that has come to be known as the megafauna extinction. This wave coincided with the spread of modern humans and, increasingly, is understood to have been a result of it. In this sense, the crisis Cuvier discerned just beyond the edge of recorded history was us.
Elizabeth Kolbert
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I've made a dog's breakfast of English history, geography, 'King Lear,' and the English language in general.
Christopher Moore
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Without question, the Red Ryder BB gun is the most important gun in the history of American weaponry.
Ted Nugent
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My face has changed with the years and has enough history in it to give audiences something to work with.
Jeanne Moreau
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I never feel lonely if I've got a book - they're like old friends. Even if you're not reading them over and over again, you know they are there. And they're part of your history. They sort of tell a story about your journey through life.
Emilia Fox
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They killed my character off and as God would have it, just when they told me I would never work again, I got cast in a little program called Roots, and as they would say, the rest is history.
John Amos
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The strike of the miners in Arizona was one of the most remarkable strikes in the history of the American labor movement. Its peaceful character, its successful outcome, were due to that most remarkable character, Governor Hunt.
Mary Harris Jones
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I have no real training in the history of fine art or furniture; my eye just works by proportions. I react intuitively. In London, it's all about color because the weather is so gray, and in that cold light they look beautiful.
Mario Testino
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No harm's done to history by making it something someone would want to read.
David McCullough
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Naturally, every age thinks that all ages before it were prejudiced, and today we think this more than ever and are just as wrong as all previous ages that thought so. How often have we not seen the truth condemned! It is sad but unfortunately true that man learns nothing from history.
Carl Jung
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Congressman Watt has a long history of advocating against predatory lending and the mortgage practices that caused millions of families to lose their homes.
Marcia Fudge
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Throughout history, great leaders have known the power of humor.
Allen Klein
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The kitchen's a laboratory, and everything that happens there has to do with science. It's biology, chemistry, physics. Yes, there's history. Yes, there's artistry. Yes, to all of that. But what happened there, what actually happens to the food is all science.
Alton Brown
