History Quotes
-
Oh gosh, I'm completely allergic to historical dramas. Particularly those around the civil-rights movement. It's not my favorite thing to watch. So often they feel like medicine. Or not even a history lesson, because I really like history. Just... obligatory.
-
There is no doubt of the essential nobility of that man who pours into life the honest vigor of his toil, over those who compose the feathery foam of fashion that sweeps along Broadway; who consider the insignia of honor to consist in wealth and indolence; and who, ignoring the family history, paint coats of arms to cover up the leather aprons of their grandfathers.
-
It is important to keep in mind that to learn a language is not simply to learn a linguistic means of communication. It is also to learn the way of thinking and feeling of a people who speak and write a language which is different from ours. It is to learn the history and culture underlying their thoughts and emotions and so to learn to empathize with them.
-
History, like beauty, depends largely on the beholder, so when you read that, for example, David Livingstone discovered the Victoria Falls, you might be forgiven for thinking that there was nobody around the Falls until Livingstone arrived on the scene.
-
In ten to twenty years, when people write the history of Covid-19, I want them to write that Zoom did the right thing for the world.
-
Both humanity's capacity to innovate and the incentives to innovate are greater today than at any other time in history.
-
I don't seem to be able to learn from experience or anything useful. History doesn't help me. Precedents don't inform my experience.
-
An impeachable offense is whatever a majority of the House of Representatives considers it to be at a given moment in history.
-
Donald Trump is the greatest deal maker in the history of our country.
-
'The Man in the High Castle' was not the first alternative history novel, nor even the first Nazis-win-the-war novel, but it is still probably the most influential book in the genre.
-
Because the acts or events of true history have not that magnitude which satisfieth the mind of man, poesy feigneth acts and events greater and more heroical.
-
I think 'Mudbound' reveals the interconnectiveness of our stories. You can't separate out threads of history and race as economic construct. 'Mudbound' makes it very plain. Race is about commerce; it's not an actual thing. It's a fiction that was created to basically divide resources unequally.
-
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.
-
First of all, on a cinematic level, the film answer to that is that Roger Corman was creatively responsible for a lot of cinema history.
-
We have a responsibility in our time, as others have had in theirs, not to be prisoners of history but to shape history, a responsibility to fill the role of path-finder, and to build with others a global network of purpose and law.
-
I love the mystery, the reconstruction of history, and the way past and future define each other.
-
I loved Latin - the grammar, the difficult tenses, the history - but for some reason I was very bad at it, shamefully and blushingly bad at it. … In moments of stress the embarrassment of how bad I was at Latin - a subject I loved - really hit me. It was like being laughed at by someone you desperately loved.
-
Presume not that I am the thing I was.
-
But as a philosopher said, one day after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, after all the scientific and technological achievements, we shall harness for God the energies of love. And then, for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.
-
In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary.
-
You learn about equality in history and civics, but you find out life is not really like that.
-
The wort terrorist attack in American history also brought out the best in our country...We are United as Americans.
-
The South creates the civilizations, the North conquers them, ruins them, borrows from them, spreads them: this is one summary of history.
-
Are you aware that was the longest and largest criminal case in the history of Los Angeles County?
