History Quotes
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Art is the suitcase of history, carrying the essentials. Art is the life buoy of history. Art is seed, art is memory, art is vaccine.
Yann Martel -
You may not be able to change the events of your history, but you can change the story you've attached to those events.
Amy Chan
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Harlem's streets lead backward, into history, straight to a work such as 'This Was Harlem.'
Darryl Pinckney -
...he feels a stifling uselessness in things, a kind of atomic decay whereby the precious glowing present turns, with each tick of the clock, into the leaden slag of history.
John Updike -
The camera is the eye of history.
Mathew Brady -
Mathematics as an Element in the History of Thought.
Alfred North Whitehead -
When President Teddy Roosevelt posed for the cameras astride a massive steam shovel during construction of the Panama Canal in 1906, it was more than a simple photo op. Though the scene was clearly staged, it symbolized a crucial moment in American history.
Alan Huffman -
Hale had answered when the President of the United States can't go to a city of the United States and be protected, we've come to a very difficult time in our nation's history, and encouraged him to come.
Lindy Boggs
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Most filmmakers aren't very interested in history. They worry constantly that people will be bored.
Geoffrey Ward -
What happens when good people are put into an evil place? Do they triumph or does the situation dominate their past history and morality?
Philip Zimbardo -
History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.
Thomas Carlyle -
There is no equivalency between the United States of America, the greatest freedom loving nation in the history of the world, and the murderous thugs that are in Vladimir Putin's defense of his cronyism. There's no moral equivalency there.
Benjamin E. Sasse -
The mystery of history is an insoluble problem.
Henry Ward Beecher -
For an economy built to last we must invest in what will fuel us for generations to come. This is our history - from the Transcontinental Railroad to the Hoover Dam, to the dredging of our ports and building of our most historic bridges - our American ancestors prioritized growth and investment in our nation's infrastructure.
Cory Booker
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If there are more than two sexes, then so be it and, of course, the assumption that there are two helps shape, as many have argued, the binary logic that underpins much of the history of western philosophy.
Alison Assiter -
History is more interesting than politics.
Lennart Meri -
Greece's history in the drachma was an up-and-down history, a roller coaster.
George Papandreou -
We cannot escape history.
Abraham Lincoln -
How I Love Lucy was born? We decided that instead of divorce lawyers profiting from our mistakes, we'd profit from them.
Lucille Ball -
Our nation is built upon a history of immigration, dating back to our first pioneers, the Pilgrims. For more than three centuries, we have welcomed generations of immigrants to our melting pot of hyphenated America: British-Americans; Italian-Americans; Irish-Americans; Jewish-Americans; Mexican-Americans; Chinese-Americans; Indian-Americans.
Ami Bera
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The premise for me has always been that it's vulnerable people who do violent things. And the more vulnerable they feel, often, the more violent they are. But I think, you know, that's an idea that comes from history, from classical theater, for me.
Liev Schreiber -
Economic history matters. Students of economics should read Charles MacKay and Charles Kindleberger, and should study the history of the Wall Street Crash as well as the theory and the mathematics required to formalize it.
Adair Turner, Baron Turner of Ecchinswell -
All necessary measures shall be taken to encourage and stimulate immigration of Jews into Palestine on a large scale.
Faisal I of Iraq -
There is a history in all men's lives.
William Shakespeare