History Quotes

• I was a history and government major at Ohio State University, and I've spent a lot of time just fiddling around with who the next president's going to be, over the years, or who would I like to see in that job, or whatever. And I've come to believe, without any reservation, in this era, the best-prepared person for this job by far is Donald Trump.

  

  Bobby Knight
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Job

• Societies create their own history and tend to wipe out lowly beginnings, either by forgetting them or inventing totally fictitious heroic rescues.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • History

• Thirty centuries of history allow us to look with supreme pity on certain doctrines which are preached beyond the Alps by the descendants of those who were illiterate when Rome had Caesar, Virgil and Augustus.

  

  Benito Mussolini
  • History

• One hundred thousand dollars was the bridge that enabled me to go on TV, not miss a beat or miss an opportunity, and raise then my own money to carry me forth. And that's how I got to be the first Democratic woman in the United States Senate's history.

  

  Barbara Mikulski
  • Money
  • Opportunity
  • Bridge

• History is malleable. A new cache of diaries can shed new light, and archeological evidence can challenge our popular assumptions.

  

  Ken Burns
  • Light
  • Challenge
  • Popular

• We as Black people have to tell our own stories. We have to document our history. When we allow someone else to document our history the history becomes twisted and we get written out. We get our noses blown off.

  

  Erykah Badu
  • People
  • Black
  • Stories

• The financial history of the Baltimore and Ohio since the close of the nineteenth century is interesting chiefly in connection with changes in the control of the property.

  John Moody
  • Interesting
  • Control
  • Financial

• From the beginning of our history the country has been afflicted with compromise. It is by compromise that human rights have been abandoned.

  

  Charles Sumner
  • Country
  • History
  • Beginning

• Should you encounter the enemy, he will be defeated! No quarter will be given! Prisoners will not be taken! Whoever falls into your hands is forfeited. Just as a thousand years ago the Huns under their King Attila made a name for themselves, one that even today makes them seem mighty in history and legend, may the name German be affirmed by you in such a way in China that no Chinese will ever again dare to look cross-eyed at a German.

  

  Wilhelm II
  • May
  • Today
  • Taken

• History will see advertising as one of the real evil things of our time. It is stimulating people constantly to want things, want this, want that.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • People
  • Time
  • Real

• The real world is the fantasy writer's scrapbook. Real history, real geography, real customs and religions are all invaluable sources of guidance and inspiration.

  

  Lynn Flewelling
  • World
  • Inspiration
  • Fantasy

• You are not the product of your circumstances. You are a composite of all the things you believe, and all the places you believe you can go. Your past does not define you. You can step out of your history and create a new day for yourself. Even if the entire culture is saying, "You can't." Even if every single possible bad thing that can happen to you does. You can keep going forward.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Believe
  • Bad
  • Past

• Honestly, I didn't have the patience for biology or history in an academic sense, but I always liked the kind of big questions.

  

  Andrew Bird
  • History
  • Patience

• Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so slightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Attachment

• I am very proud to come back, to speak on the disinterested effort we have made and I believe that, with all due respect, that the decisions we made, when we turned our final report over to President Johnson, will stand in history.

  

  John Sherman Cooper
  • Believe
  • Respect
  • Proud

• I have a history of eating disorders but, as a mother, you think of being an example to your child. I'm so much more balanced than I was.

  

  Geri Halliwell Spice Girls
  • History
  • Child
  • Disoders

• I think the President is clearly insane in several ways, and insanest upon war and its supreme glories. I think he longs for a big war wherein he can spectacularly perform as chief general and chief admiral, and go down in history as the only monarch of modern times that has served both offices at the same time.

  

  Mark Twain
  • Time
  • War
  • History

• The study of history requires investigation, imagination, empathy, and respect. Reverence just doesn't enter into it.

  

  Jill Lepore
  • Respect
  • Imagination
  • Study

• Just like I am obsessed with the history of fashion, I love reading about the history of makeup.

  

  Cyndi Lauper Blue Angel
  • Reading
  • Fashion
  • Makeup

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

  

  David Brinkley
  • Power
  • History

• The Great Migration can get forgotten if we don't pay attention or bear witness to it. It's part of my personal history and the history of millions of African Americans who left those oppressive conditions for better lives in the North. It's important to put that on the page.

  

  Jacqueline Woodson
  • Great
  • Important
  • Attention

• The Thames is liquid history.

  

  John Burns
  • History

• From a reality perspective, I'm sure part of that is true, but this is the largest blackout in U.S. history. If that is not a signal that we have got a problem that needs to be fixed, I don't know what is.

  

  Jennifer Granholm
  • True
  • Reality
  • Perspective

• The history of human civilisation is a history of mutual borrowings.

  

  Nayef Al-Rodhan
  • History

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