History Quotes
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Photography has the capacity to provide images of man and his environment that are both works of art and moments in history.
Cornell Capa -
The international community cannot accept that whole communities are marginalized because of the color of their skin. People of African descent are among those most affected by racism. Too often, they face denial of basic rights such as access to quality health services and education. Such fundamental wrongs have a long and terrible history.
Ban Ki-moon
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Things added to things, as statistics, civil history, are inventories. Things used as language are inexhaustibly attractive.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
When the Temple was destroyed, the Jewish people faced a crisis unlike any other in its history. For centuries, the sacrificial system had served as the primary medium of atonement before the Almighty.
Meir Soloveichik -
Presidents make history but are also a product of it. And there are two kinds: transforming and transactional. Reagan was a transforming president. He made history.
David E. Hoffman -
Ted and I had history,” Jake said. “We were in love. This hurts all the time. I never stop thinking about how much this hurts.” Zoe stretched out her arms and pretended to play a goddamn violin.
Carolyn Mackler -
Bolton Wanderers is a fantastic football club with an incredible history and fanbase and this is a really exciting opportunity for us all.
Ian Evatt -
We are disturbed - we can't play anymore. Our planet can be renewed or ravaged. Now is the time to awaken and take action. Everyone is needed. You are not here for no reason. Everyone who is here now has an important purpose. This is a hard but a special time. We have the opportunity for growth, but we must be ready for this moment in history.
Carlos Barrios
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Why don’t you go somewhere quietly and consult your history books if you have no consciences to consult?
Brian Aldiss -
There is no law of history any more than of a kaleidoscope.
John Ruskin -
You can make history, or you will be vilified by it.
Leonardo DiCaprio -
If we get to the point where we damage the full faith and credit of the United States, that would be the first default in history caused purely by insanity.
Austan Goolsbee -
In the history of humanity there are no civilizations or cultures which fail to manifest, in one or a thousand ways, this need for an absolute that is called heaven, freedom, a miracle, a lost paradise to be regained, peace, the going beyond History... There is no religion in which everyday life is not considered a prison; there is no philosophy or ideology that does not think that we live in alienation.... Humanity has always had a nostalgia for the freedom that is only beauty, that is only real; life, plenitude, light.
Eugene Ionesco -
No apparent, perceived, or claimed evidence in any field, including history and chronology, can be valid if it contradicts the Scriptural record.
Ken Ham
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This is the greatest act of budget consolidation in the history of the Federal Republic of Germany.
Edmund Stoiber -
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.
Stephan El Shaarawy -
The history of a people are found in its songs.
George Jellinek -
He made his decision and we respect that, given his history of injuries from a year ago and the fact that he only played in 14 games in 2005.
Buck Martinez -
In 2009, for the first time in history, more than half the world’s population lived in cities. In a time when family, friends and co-workers are a call, text, or email away, 3.3 billion people on this planet still choose to crowd together in skyscrapers, high-rises, subways and buses. Not too long ago, it looked like our cities were dying, but in fact they boldly threw themselves into the information age, adapting and evolving to become the gateways to a globalised and interconnected world. Now more than ever, the well-being of human society depends upon our knowledge of how the city lives and breathes.
Edward Glaeser -
It is quite rare for God to provide a great man at the necessary moment to carry out some great deep, which is why when this unusual combination of circumstance does occur, history at once records the name of the chosen one and recommends him to the admiration of posterity.
Alexandre Dumas
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What astounds me about the history of the British Navy is how cheaply we have policed the world for 300 years.
Ernest Bevin -
Silence ensures that history repeats itself.
Erin Gruwell -
For most of recorded history, the treatment of women's sexual and reproductive health was the almost exclusive bailiwick of women, including the juries of matrons who performed the genital examinations required in the evaluation of rape and annulment cases and who were among the rare women considered qualified to give testimony in medieval courts of law.
Hanne Blank -
The first step to get people interested in history is to wonder how things could have been different.
Gavriel David Rosenfeld