History Quotes

• At the first general meeting of this Corporation in 1820, his Lordship presided; a circumstance, which may well be considered an era in the history of the Church of Upper Canada.

  

  John Strachan
  • May
  • History
  • Church

• Art needs to be socialised, and you need a lot of context to understand that, and that doesn't mean having read a few art history books.

  

  Peter M. Brant
  • Art
  • History

• I've always loved the club. Kaka was my role model when I was young, and my aim now is to go down in Milan history.

  

  Stephan El Shaarawy
  • History
  • Always
  • Club

• Antoninus diffused order and tranquility over the greatest part of the earth. His reign is marked by the rare advantage of furnishing very few materials for history; which is, indeed, little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.

  

  Edward Gibbon
  • History
  • Earth

• There's a slippery slope in regard to authority. If you say that the history in Genesis is not true, then you can just take man's ideas as true. When you go outside of Scripture, why shouldn't you just reinterpret what marriage means? So our emphasis is on the slippery slope regarding authority.

  

  Ken Ham
  • Why
  • True
  • Marriage

• There are those who regard this history of past strife and exile as better forgotten. But, to use the phrase of Yeats, let us not casually reduce 'that great past to a trouble of fools.' For we need not feel the bitterness of the past to discover its meaning for the present and the future.

  

  John F. Kennedy
  • Great
  • Future
  • Past

• Somebody made the statement that Donald Trump has built or owns the greatest collection of golf courses, ever, in the history of golf. And I believe that is 100 percent true.

  

  Donald Trump
  • Believe
  • True
  • Trump

• Humans will eventually become extinct. People treat that as a radical thing to say. But the fossil record shows us that everything eventually becomes extinct. It depends what "eventually" means. But the idea that were going to be around for the rest of global history...I don't think there's any scientist who would suggest that is true. It could be millions of years from now. We may leave descendants that are humanlike.

  

  Elizabeth Kolbert
  • Humans
  • Scientist
  • Descendants

• Far too often, when we think we are frightened by mystery, the fact is that we are haunted by history.

  

  Erwin McManus
  • History
  • Mystery
  • Haunted

• In the character of the victim Lincoln, and even in the accessories of his last moments, there is something so homely and innocent that it takes the question, as it were, out of all the pomp of history and the ceremonial of diplomacy-it touches the heart of nations and appeals to the domestic sentiment of mankind.

  

  Benjamin Disraeli
  • Heart
  • Character
  • Question

• And history also shows that seemingly ordinary people who are sufficiently resolute about justice can triumph over the most formidable adversaries.

  

  Edward Snowden
  • People
  • History
  • Justice

• History opens up new worlds to film-makers all the time.

  

  Steven Spielberg
  • History
  • Worlds
  • Filmmakers

• I am re-reading Henry James as a change from history. I began with Daisy Miller, and I've just finished Washington Square. What a brilliant, painful book.

  

  Antonia Fraser
  • Book
  • History
  • Reading

• We tap into a lot of things from musical history when making the songs.

  

  Chris Stein Blondie
  • History
  • Songs

• Men, not only in Turkish society but everywhere, have been the bosses in terms of creation. If you look at art history, women were the objects. The fact that it's not been made by women means that the subjects are not women.

  

  Deniz Gamze Erguven
  • Women
  • Subjects
  • Terms

• I long for the time when all human history is taught as one history, because it really is.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Time
  • History
  • Human

• We've gone through rounds of tax cutting and rounds of tax increases in modern U.S. history. We haven't really had a big igniting of a trade war belligerence since the Depression era, and that's not an era that we want to repeat.

  

  Austan Goolsbee
  • War
  • Cutting
  • Depression

• Basically, I was always very interested in comedy, but I was much more sort of academic. And then, after college, loaded with my art history degree, I decided to go work at Comedy Central as a temp.

  

  Jessi Klein
  • Work
  • Art
  • College

• I love the quality, feel and history of film. I love the pictures of the giant cameras and the way it was.

  

  David Lynch The Platters
  • History
  • Quality

• When history is written as it ought to be written, it is the moderation and long patience of the masses at which men will wonder, not their ferocity.

  

  C. L. R. James
  • Men
  • Long
  • Wonder

• I write and film history; I don't make it. One can be a good critic and a moral observer, but one remains professionally detached as a writer and a filmmaker.

  

  Jean-Luc Godard
  • Good
  • History
  • Moral

• In 1971, the U.S. 'closed the gold window,' starting an era of global fiat money reference-pricing that has been unprecedented in history. Never before had the world operated on the basis of no country anywhere having a currency tied to something with intrinsic value like gold.

  

  Max Keiser
  • World
  • Country
  • Money

• If you get too deep into the history, what often happens to a lot of us actors is that we become stilted. We forget that we're reading about something that happened a hundred years ago. If we don't put the human emotion that would naturally be in there, we end up being stilted instead of being human beings.

  

  Ato Essandoh
  • Up
  • Reading
  • Deep

• I love the Shakespeare history plays; I love the struggle for the crown as a plot.

  

  Mark Gatiss
  • History
  • Struggle

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