History Quotes
History is just littered with problems that were solved that were supposed to be impossible.
Paul Wolfowitz
The brutal history of colonialism is one in which white people literally stole land and people for their own gain and material wealth.
Patrisse Cullors
By profession a biologist, [Thomas Henry Huxley] covered in fact the whole field of the exact sciences, and then bulged through its four fences. Absolutely nothing was uninteresting to him. His curiosity ranged from music to theology and from philosophy to history. He didn't simply know something about everything; he knew a great deal about everything.
H. L. Mencken
Americans are rising to the tasks of history, and they expect the same of us.
George W. Bush
Growing up in the '70s and '80s when my dad had an art gallery, one of the things that frustrated me was the world seemed so tiny, and to appreciate contemporary art, you needed a history of art, a formal education. I was more interested in the people, and that's why I went into the movie business in the first place.
Jason Blum
All historians, even the most scientific, have bias, if in no other sense than the determination not to have any.
Carl L. Becker
It's just a great school and they have a history of developing big men. Georgetown is definitely a great option for me.
Nerlens Noel
We just may be the most well-informed, yet least self-aware, people in history.
Norman Lear
There's an institution here called the National Sound Archive, and there's a character who works there, Paul Wilson. He takes a very special interest in the history of the music and advised Martin Davidson of the existence of these tapes.
Evan Parker
The dignity of history consists in reciting events with truth and accuracy, and in presenting human agents and their actions in an interesting and instructive form. The first element in history, therefore, is truthfulness; and this truthfulness must be displayed in a concrete form.
Daniel Webster
It is the function of the novelist to reveal the hidden life at its source: to tell us more about Queen Victoria than could be known, and thus to produce a character who is not the Queen Victoria of history.
E. M. Forster
We have just made history, ... an EU based on values, not just history. Turkey has always been a European country.
Jack Straw
I don't sit down in front of my computer screen and think, 'Right. Today I shall begin a story set in this or that period of history.' I just get ideas from the world around me.
Ann Turner
Your birth may be common, But death must be history.
Adolf Hitler
I made history here by landing the first triple axel for a U.S. lady, third at the Olympics, and that's a big deal.
Mirai Nagasu
American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.
James A. Baldwin
An impeachable offense is whatever a majority of the House of Representatives considers it to be at a given moment in history.
Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr.
To face this fact is to encounter one of the most demanding challenges in thinking about history: explaining how people in the past could have failed to see what seems so clear to us in retrospect. This is an imperative task but also a delicate and exacting one. On one hand, explanation can shade into excuse, on the other hand, passing judgment on the past can be a form of self-congratulation in the present.
Andrew Delbanco
