History Quotes
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I am settled in France, and as for the rest of my history as a painter, it is bound up with the impressionistic group.
Camille Pissarro
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We have just made history, ... We've had the first ministerial meeting on the opening of accession negotiations.
Jack Straw
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And Venus must be hot if the history of the solar system is not the history of no change for billions of years. And Venus was found hot, not room temperature as was thought until 1959. In 1961 it was detected with radio means that it is like something like 600 Farenheit and Mariner 2 was sent out to find out true or not true? It was found that even more it is full 800 [degrees Farenheit].
Immanuel Velikovsky
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Only a handful of men and women leave an imprint on the conscience of a nation and on the history that they helped shape.
Barack Obama
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In general, life is better than it has ever been, and if you think that, in the past, there was some golden age of pleasure and plenty to which you would, if you were able, transport yourself, let me say one single word : Dentistry.
P. J. O'Rourke
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History is the third parent.
Nadeem Aslam
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History supplied numerous instances to prove that brute force is as nothing before soul-force.
Mahatma Gandhi
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The want to return to the fold doesn't mean you can repeat history.
Lindsey Buckingham
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Benedict and Bernard and the other true monastic peacemakers of history have been effective because they have acted from a deep source of peace within themselves, dating a context for peace. This is the contribution a Christian man or woman of peace can make.
Basil Pennington
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the future is simply nothing at all. Nothing has happened to the present by becoming past except that fresh slices of existence have been added to the total history of the world. The past is thus as real as the present.
C. D. Broad
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I have a well-documented history of trouble with intimacy.
Matthew Perry
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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
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Symbolic rearrangement of the past is of course an unavoidable aspect of all human attempts to make sense of the present.
Eamon Duffy
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We save the honor of Jesus when we restore His Person to life from the state of inanity to which the apologists have reduced it, and give it once more a living relation to history, which it certainly possessed.
Bruno Bauer
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It's been argued that of all the animals humans have domesticated, the horse is the most important to our history. For thousands of years, horses were our most reliable mode of transportation.
Elton Gallegly
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Before I'm a zombie nerd, before I'm a science-fiction nerd, I am a history nerd.
Max Brooks
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Science class is traditionally taught as science history class - you learn all these facts that someone else discovered, which you need to know, but that's not really an inspiring way to learn science.
Megan Smith
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The uniqueness of the United States in human history is the United States is the first global power in human history which emerged far away from Africa or Asia, which is the main land of human history.
Ahmet Davutoglu
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If you review the commercial history, you will discover anyone who controls oriental trade will get hold of global wealth.
James J. Hill
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History provides neither compensation for suffering nor penalties for wrong.
John Acton
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I actually completely suck at being a bioethicist. What I do is history of medicine and patient advocacy. Patient advocacy is actually the opposite of bioethics, because bioethicists are the people who increasingly set up and justify the systems we patient advocates have to fight.
Alice Dreger
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Official history is merely a veil to hide the truth of what really happened. When the veil is lifted, again and again we see that not only is the official version not true, it is often 100% wrong.
David Icke
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History gets reinterpreted as time goes on. Many times, the participants are lost in the retelling of the story.
Buzz Aldrin
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History is merely gossip.
Oscar Wilde