History Quotes
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What's interesting is that when you get into the post-war period, many of the narratives in books and movies conclude that if you killed Hitler, you're actually going to make history worse.
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In schools with a history of chaos, the teacher who can keep the classroom calm becomes virtually indispensable.
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I am thrilled to write 'The Treasure Chest,' and to bring to life not only the childhoods of famous people from history, but also the characters of Maisie and Felix, who I hope you will fall in love with just as I have!
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I am writing to you in the hope that the conflict in Vietnam can be brought to an end. That conflict has already taken a heavy toll-in lives lost, in wounds inflicted, in property destroyed, and in simple human misery. If we fail to find a just and peaceful solution, history will judge us harshly.
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I believe the history of American music is just as important as anything political because it's changed generations of people.
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Life is full of a thousand red herrings, and it takes the history of a civilisation to work out which are the red herrings and which aren't.
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All necessary measures shall be taken to encourage and stimulate immigration of Jews into Palestine on a large scale.
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We knew we could put the company on the right side of history by decisive transformative action and by redefining our purpose to improving people's lives through innovation.
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Modern art is a disaster area. Never in the field of human history has so much been used by so many to say so little.
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I have a long-standing history of respecting artists' wishes.
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History is made every day. The challenge is getting everyone to pay attention to it.
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The history of a people are found in its songs.
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The most important in the history of nations and individuals was once the most trivial, and vice versa. The plebeian, who is called today the 'man in the street,' can never see and understand the significance of the hidden seed of things, which in time must develop or die.
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Men are very apt to run into extremes, hatred to England may carry come into an excess of Confidence in France... I am heartily disposed to entertain the most favourable sentiments of our new ally and to cherish them in others to a reasonable degree; but it is a maxim founded on the universal experience of mankind, that no nation is to be trusted farther than it is bound by its interest; and no prudent statesman or politician will venture to depart from it.
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I love Mexico because that's where I'm from, but my favorite city, whenever I need to recharge, I love Paris. I get very inspired while I'm there. There's so much art and culture, and Paris, before New York, that was the capital of the world. And I love history too, so I go there. It does something special to me.
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The foregoing history may not be precisely accurate in every particular; but I am sure it is sufficiently so, for all the uses I shall attempt to make of it, and in it, we have before us, the chief material enabling us to correctly judge whether the repeal of the Missouri Compromise is right or wrong.
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History is full of delightful reversals, where the opposite of what one predicts comes true.
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One of my earliest jobs drawing was 'Wonder Woman: Our Worlds At War,' with Phil Jimenez, which was a really cool jaunt through her history. I got to draw this two-page spread that was set in the Golden Age.
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History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
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As we have sought through the centuries to define ourselves as human beings and as nations through the prisms of history and literature, no small part of that effort has drawn us to the subject of war. We might even say that the humanities began with war and from war, and have remained entwined with it ever since.
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History shows that when the church accommodates culture, it weakens it.
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History is marked by alternating movements across the imaginary line that separates East from West in Eurasia.
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It took a while for me to grasp that my colleagues believe I have made an impact on the history of cinema.
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To people who remember JFK's assassination, JFK Jr. will probably always be that boy saluting his father's coffin.
