History Quotes

• Before 1959, some Americans saw Cuba as something to exploit, ignored poverty, enabled corruption. And since 1959, we’ve been shadow-boxers in this battle of geopolitics and personalities. I know the history, but I refuse to be trapped by it.

  

  Barack Obama
  • History
  • Poverty
  • Shadow

• It has never been in my power to study anything, - mathematics, ethics, metaphysics, gravitation, thermodynamics, optics, chemistry, comparative anatomy, astronomy, psychology, phonetics, economics, the history of science, whist, men and women, wine, metrology, except as a study of semeiotic.

  

  Charles Sanders Peirce
  • Men
  • Women
  • Power

• Yiddish, the language which will ever bear witness to the violence and murder inflicted on us, bear the marks of our expulsions from land to land, the language which absorbed the wails of the fathers, the laments of the generations, the poison and bitterness of history, the language whose precious jewels are the undried, uncongealed Jewish tears.

  

  I. L. Peretz
  • Father
  • Violence
  • Tears

• Peyton Manning is doing things that I think no other quarterback in the history of the league has done at the line of scrimmage... I just think they are a team right now that's got a real chance to run the table.

  

  Don Shula
  • Real
  • Done
  • Team

• History is the unfolding of miscalculations.

  

  Barbara W. Tuchman
  • History

• All the copy-cat predictions of a Muslim takeover of Europe not only ignore history and Europe’s ineradicable viciousness and Europe's ineradicable piousness, but do a serious disservice by exacerbating fear and hatred. And when it comes to hatred, trust me: The Europeans don't need our help.

  

  Ralph Peters
  • Help
  • Fear
  • Trust

• Personal religion has a supreme value for its own sake, not merely as a feeder of social morality, but as the highest unfolding of life itself, as the blossoming of our spiritual nature. Spiritual regeneration is the most important fact in any life history. A living experience of God is the crowning knowledge attainable to a human mind.

  

  Walter Rauschenbusch
  • Life
  • God
  • Important

• For the vast majority of mankind's history, economic activity consisted of finding energy and using energy.

  

  Li Lu
  • History
  • Energy

• I am interested in people living in the margins of society, and I do have a mission to tell the stories of women of colour in particular. I feel we've been present throughout history, but our voices have been neglected.

  

  Lynn Nottage
  • People
  • Women
  • Society

• That period of history has always fascinated me - Greek history, Greek mythology.

  

  Jared Harris
  • History
  • Period
  • Greek

• Mining created Chile. The story of men who go down into the mountain and chip away at minerals in the darkness and then suffer an accident that leaves them at the mercy of that darkness is part of the DNA of Chile, an integral part of the country's history.

  

  Ariel Dorfman
  • Men
  • Country
  • Mountain

• Exposition has legitimate uses. It's the most efficient way to summarize background information, including necessary information about a character's history. It can set the stage well for a major dramatized event.

  

  Nancy Kress
  • Character
  • History
  • Stage

• But history is a faithless teller whose cruel recourse to hindsight makes fools of its actors.

  

  Kate Morton
  • History
  • Faithless
  • Teller

• I grew up around books - my grandmother's house, where I lived as a small child, was full of books. My father was a history teacher, and he loved the Russian novels. There were always books around.

  

  John Irving
  • Up
  • Father
  • House

• You have to look at the history of the Middle East in particular. It has been one of failure and frustration, of feudalism and tribalism.

  

  Alexander Haig
  • Failure
  • Frustration
  • Middle East

• I believe that the history of Fed policymaking is that, you know, there are times when we need to raise rates.

  

  Charles L. Evans
  • Believe
  • History

• The birth of the baby Jesus stands as the most significant event in all history, because it has meant the pouring into a sick world the healing medicine of love which has transformed all manner of hearts for almost two thousand years.

  

  George Matthew Adams
  • World
  • Jesus
  • Baby

• You learn history in school, and you have a reverential feeling toward it. But by being irreverent, it feels current.

  

  Benjamin Walker
  • School
  • History
  • Feeling

• The capitalist distribution network, a complex chain of factory, transport, warehouse and retail outlet, is one of the greatest male accomplishments in the history of culture.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • History
  • Culture

• No one in the modern history of this country, no president, has done more to move toward a balanced budget than has President Bill Clinton.

  

  Mario Cuomo
  • Country
  • Done
  • History

• I'm suggesting that, ironically, the secret to becoming a world 'hyperpower' is tolerance. If you look at history, you see great powers being very tolerant in their rise to global dominance.

  

  Amy Chua
  • World
  • Great
  • Tolerance

• Some of the greatest stars in the history of football have been under contract with Puma.

  

  Jochen Zeitz
  • History
  • Football

• History must be this or it is nothing. Every law which the state enacts indicates a fact in human nature; that is all. We must in ourselves see the necessary reason of every fact, - see how it could and must be.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • History
  • Nature
  • Law

• 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

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