History Quotes

• During the 1990s, San Francisco lived through one of the most intense economic booms of its history.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • History
  • Economic
  • Through

• Musical instruments are among the oldest human-made artifacts we have found. ...Music predates agriculture in the history of our species.

  

  Daniel Levitin
  • Music
  • History

• I'm sure in the history of Harvard, and the history of most schools, there's been some pretty crazy parties that I'm not even sure you could even capture on film how silly and ridiculous they were.

  

  Cameron Winklevoss
  • Pretty
  • Crazy
  • Silly

• We can learn from IBM's successful history that you don't have to have the best product to become number one. You don't even have to have a good product.

  

  Adam Osborne
  • Good
  • History
  • Best

• I have a strong art-history background.

  

  Eli Roth
  • Art
  • History
  • Strong

• My main goal is to become the most successful weightlifter in history.

  

  Ilya Ilyin
  • History
  • Goal
  • Successful

• Islam is unusual in that it's the only one of the great world religions which was born inside recorded history. That there's an enormous amount of factual historical record about the life of a prophet and about social conditions in Arabia at that time. So it's possible to look at the origin of Islam in a scholarly way.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Life
  • Time
  • World

• This is an exciting time. A new chapter in our history.

  

  John Barth
  • Time
  • History

• The challenge for a writer looking at history is to figure out what is history and what is myth. After all, what you are looking at is an interpretation of history, and so at some level, it becomes an interpretation of an interpretation.

  

  Dan Brown
  • History
  • Challenge
  • Looking

• History is full of times when the inevitable front-runner is inevitable right up until he or she is no longer inevitable.

  

  Martin O'Malley
  • Up
  • She
  • History

• The arts are what humanize science and history.

  

  Danny K. Davis
  • History
  • Science

• Indeed, scientific truth by consensus has had a uniformly bad history.

  

  David Douglass
  • Truth
  • Bad
  • History

• There's a need to keep the history of an artform going, parallel with the new work that's being done.

  

  Hal Price
  • Work
  • Done
  • History

• History shows that our way of life is the stronger way. From it has come more wealth, more industry, more happiness, more human enlightenment than from any other way.

  

  Wendell Willkie
  • Life
  • Happiness
  • Enlightenment

• The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • High
  • Think
  • Past

• If the house is to be demolished tomorrow anyhow, people seem to feel, we may as well burn the furniture today. None of our problems are insoluble...But it seems clear that to prevail we humans will have to act with a smartness and selflessness that has so far eluded us during our long and tangled history.

  

  Arthur C. Clarke
  • People
  • Long
  • May

• I don't concentrate on any one period of history; I like to locate my stories in wildly different eras and places. I seem to be drawn to large, sprawling, uncomfortable swaths of American history, finding embedded within them a tight narrative that involves strife, heroism, and survival under difficult circumstances.

  

  Hampton Sides
  • Different
  • American
  • Period

• The Czech Republic stood with the U.S., Canada and a handful of other countries against the prevailing international current, but history has shown us time and again that what is right is not what is popular.

  

  Benjamin Netanyahu
  • Time
  • History
  • Popular

• I love the Royal Family and every aspect of Britain and what we have achieved in history.

  

  Adam Peaty
  • Family
  • Love
  • Aspect

• The statement that I made and that I think I will continue to make is that racism and bigotry isn't just relegated to the Southern region; it permeates the history of our nation. It's not to say that we haven't made progress. Obviously we have with our first African American president, and I never thought that would happen in my lifetime.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • American
  • Progress
  • Racism

• It has been said by church historians that in those periods of Christian history where renewal, revival, and awakening took place and the church was at its strongest, that coincidental with those periods in church history, there was a strong focus on the psalms in the life of God's people-particularly in the worship of God's people.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • People
  • Life
  • God

• Through the history of rock n' roll, you see lots of bands making the mistake of putting on the tights when they get to arenas. Don't do that.

  

  Patrick Carney The Black Keys
  • History
  • Rock
  • Mistake

• I am a curious creature and put my finger in as many cakes as I can: history, film, technology, etc. I'm also a freak for urban history, particularly Barcelona, Paris and New York. I know more weird stuff about 19th-century Manhattan than is probably healthy.

  

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon
  • Technology
  • Film
  • Healthy

• Life is not simple, and therefore history, which is past life, is not simple.

  

  David Shannon
  • History
  • Simple

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