History Quotes
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I don't know where this is coming from. What's wrong with my hair? I'm like 'I just made history and people are focused on my hair?' It can be bald or short, it doesn't matter about my hair. Nothing is going to change. I'm going to wear my hair like this during beam and bar finals. You might as well just stop talking about it.
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If you look at the history of technology over a couple hundred years, it's all about time compression and making the globe smaller. It's had positive effects, all the ones that we know. So we're much less likely to have the kind of terrible misunderstandings that led to World War I, for example.
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Ever since childhood, I've been interested in history and myth. Not just the facts and figures of the past, but everything that contributes to shape our perception of an age: architecture, art, literature and so forth.
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A decade and a half after victory in the Cold War and end-of-history triumphalism, the 'what do you leave behind' question is more urgent than most of us expected. The Western world, as a concept, is dead and the West, as a matter of demographic fact, is dying.
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Location is not, as the estate agents say, everything. We must also consider our place in history.
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Without question, the Red Ryder BB gun is the most important gun in the history of American weaponry.
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In the coming era of manned space exploration by the private sector, market forces will spur development and yield new, low-cost space technologies. If the history of private aviation is any guide, private development efforts will be safer, too.
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I don't understand what the president's Donald Trump position is on Russia. But I can tell you what my position is on Russia: Russia is a great danger to a lot of its neighbors, and Vladimir Putin has as one of his core objectives fracturing NATO, which is one of the greatest military alliances in the history of the world.
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Marriage is a core institution of societies throughout the world and throughout history. It's something that has provided permanence and stability for our very social structure.
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History paints the human heart.
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'Texas Chainsaw Massacre' is just one of those movies that's like a page of history. You can't really go wrong. It's a prequel. It's not like number three. Which is really cool, to be the before as opposed to the after.
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In our cultural history, all emotions have been more culturally acceptable to women.
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When I was a boy, I would ask about my family history, about my bloodlines. We really didn't know that much. We had a little Indian in us from the Oklahoma Trail of Tears.
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I come from a family that has a long history in the legal community of New York and New York state.
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From time immemorial, people have talked about peace without achieving it. Do we simply lack enough experience? Though we talk peace, we wage war. Sometimes we even wage war in the name of peace. . . . War may be too much a part of history to be eliminated-ever.
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The voice of passion is better than the voice of reason. The passionless cannot change history.
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One who belongs to the most vilified and persecuted minority in history is not likely to be insensible to the freedoms guaranteed by our Constitution... But as judges we are neither Jew nor Gentile, neither Catholic nor agnostic.
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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.
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It is only when social movements have receded into past history... that the Church with pride turns around to claim that it was she who abolished slavery, aroused the people to liberty, and emancipated woman.
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I love going to the river not only to enjoy nature, but to think about the Los Angeles River's place in our city's history and to envision its great place in our future.
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We examine and highlight the history of the African descendants in America, and know that each and every one of us has come this far because of our faith in this country.
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Greece's history in the drachma was an up-and-down history, a roller coaster.
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The question of sort of music and history, I think, are so important to understanding the poem as an idea but also us as people in the world.
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Although drag has a long cultural history in America, it remained largely underground till the late 1980s.
