History Quotes
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You may not be able to change the events of your history, but you can change the story you've attached to those events.
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Each day is a drive through history.
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Given the long history of global anti-Semitism and continued calls for the destruction of Israel, it's tough to be a Jew.
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Jesus was the most active resister known to history. His was nonviolence par excellence.
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There are a host of ethnic minorities in China, but they often have a weak sense of identity and are relatively small in total number. History has taught the Han that other groups will and should ultimately be absorbed and assimilated as Han. There is a belief that the Han enjoy a superior and far more advanced culture.
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Someone once described Ken Lewis to me as the most competitive person in the history of the United States, including the Union Army.
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I believe our flag is more than just cloth and ink. It is a universally recognized symbol that stands for liberty, and freedom. It is the history of our nation, and it's marked by the blood of those who died defending it.
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History is opaque. You see what comes out, not the script that produces events, ... The generator of historical events is different from the events themselves, much as the minds of the gods cannot be read just by witnessing their deeds.
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Poets often are dealing with history and are thinking about the way history moves across us, and we move in it.
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I love history, doesn't matter what era, I'm fascinated.
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For hundreds of thousands of years, life was brutal. It still is for a good chunk of the planet. The technology and wealth we enjoy in North America is a very new development in history, and I think we miss the challenges of day-to-day survival in our comparatively easy modern lives. Some people will even create problems if they have none.
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The most widely criticised singers in the history of opera, Maria Callas and Franco Corelli, happen also to be the best singers. I am honoured for being part of their group.
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The arc of American history almost inevitably moves toward freedom. Whether it's Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation, the expansion of women's rights or, now, gay rights, I think there is an almost-inevitable march toward greater civil liberties.
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In history, she wasn't there while we reenacted the Lincoln-Douglas Debate, and Mr. Lee tried to make me argue the Pro-Slavery side, most likely as punishment for some future liberally minded paper I was bound to write.
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History is not the proper midden for digging up novelties. Perhaps that is one reason why a nation bent on novelty ignores it.
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I believe we're living at a time in human history where it's just simply unacceptable that children wake up and don't know where to find a cup of food.
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Part of what I enjoy about the theatre and acting is that sense of history.
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Thanks to the Tour de France, riding the Champs-Elysees has a great cycling history.
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We go where our family goes. We go where our friends are, and because our social networks are so segregated by race, we end up with what we have. We also find that, you know, if you're immigrants, you're not part of that history.
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No one knows exactly when or where the redwood entered the history of life on earth, though it is an ancient kind of tree and has come down to our world as an inheritance out of deep time.
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History admires the wise, but elevates the brave.
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Surely if we have learned anything from the history of morals it is that the thing to do with a moral quandary is not to hide it.
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Destiny and history are untidy.
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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.
