History Quotes
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The sigh of History rises over ruins, not over landscapes, and in the Antilles there are few ruins to sigh over, apart from the ruins of sugar estates and abandoned forts.
Derek Walcott
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When Eric Cantor lost, being the only majority leader in history to lose a primary, that was pretty - and still is - earth-shattering in Virginia and across the country.
Ken Cuccinelli
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This is what Hollywood tends to do. It tends to disregard tradition, history and anything factual, twisting it and turning it and making it all okay regardless of what the English may think of it.
Christian Slater
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History is full of delightful reversals, where the opposite of what one predicts comes true.
Edmund Snow Carpenter
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There is a history in all men's lives.
William Shakespeare
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The wort terrorist attack in American history also brought out the best in our country...We are United as Americans.
Barack Obama
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In undergraduate school, I chose a career path that always leads to certain unemployment: I majored in politics and public affairs with a double-minor in philosophy and history.
Joe Garcia
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Silence ensures that history repeats itself.
Erin Gruwell
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A biography is never a biography of one person, of course, but the individual life of your protagonist will never conform. It will always bang up against history.
Rachel Holmes
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I was on tour with Michael Jackson for a while; I did the 'Dangerous' and 'History' tours. I was also on tour with Diana Ross.
Cris Judd
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Scandinavia is boring. People living there apparently have little to do. And as European history teaches, when there is nothing much to do, you may as well amuse yourself by attacking the Jews.
Elliott Abrams
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I am a nationalist, and a Pan-Africanist, first and foremost. I was well grounded in history before ever taking a history course. I did not spend much formal time in school - I had to work.
John Henrik Clarke
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New landscape of personal media has given us a vaster wasteland of cyberspace. But, luckily for us, there's some really wonderful stuff in it. And if history is any guide, as the media matures, the quality will continue to go up.
Esther Dyson
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I think we're at a moment in history where all the rules are out the window; it's not about "Here's a single, and then let it build for a couple of months and then put out an album." Doing a common project Supa Dups we're having fun thinking about how we can improvise and make it fun for people to be fans of the music.
D.A. Wallach
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Throughout Philippine history, it's the immigrants who built fortunes and, in the process, helped build Philippine economy.
John Gokongwei
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Time will inevitably uncover dishonesty and lies; history has no place for them.
Norodom Sihanouk
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There is a palpable sense of history in the homes that I choose to occupy. I think that's one of the reasons I gravitate towards old homes: I really like that sense of history and that sense that I am one step in a very long process that trails out in both directions around me - before me and ahead of me.
David Lowery Camper Van Beethoven
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Without passion there might be no errors, but without passion there would certainly be no history.
C. V. Wedgwood
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'Bamboozled' is the grassroots that will enlighten Americans from all backgrounds and political affiliations to the true history of the Democrat party and the facts about what liberal policies have done to our nation and communities of color.
Angela McGlowan
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With grace and a keen appreciation of human nature, Nicholas Thompson has written a revealing, moving history of the Cold War through two fascinating men.
Evan Thomas
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I think, unfortunately, this is going to go down in history as one of the great sporting gaffes of all time.
J. M. Roberts
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EPA has a long history of relying on science that was not created by the agency itself. This often means that the science is not available to the public and, therefore, cannot be reproduced and verified.
John Barrasso
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Donald Trump called George W. Bush 'the worst president in the history of the United States.' Then he added, 'Until, of course, I'm elected.'
Conan O'Brien
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Modern political science started in the late nineteenth century as a branch of history.
Jill Lepore