History Quotes
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Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history.
Barbara Wood
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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
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As history has shown, any new computing device capable of running a game will, by hook or by crook, soon have them available.
Bill Loguidice
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Women involved in out-patient treatment for substance abuse were interviewed to examine their recollections of childhood sexual abuse. Overall, 54% of the 105 women reported a history of childhood sexual abuse. Of these, the majority (81 %) remembered all or part of the abuse their whole lives; 19% reported they forgot the abuse for a period of time, and later the memory returned. Women who remembered the abuse their whole lives reported a clearer memory, with a more detailed picture. They also reported greater intensity of feelings at the time the abuse happened.
Elizabeth Loftus
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I attended classes and taught classes, in Food Anthropology at Pace University, with an anthropology professor. You can trace history by the architecture and food of a place. Food is one of those things that transcends and stays in the culture.
Lidia Bastianich
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History is about loops and continuums.
Mike Bidlo
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The Secret Doctrine is the common property of the countless millions of men born under various climates, in times with which History refuses to deal, and to which esoteric teachings assign dates incompatible with the theories of Geology and Anthropology.
H. P. Blavatsky
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But when you walked out of that building, you created a new history that we have to live in now.
Hank Green
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The first fact in the history of Christendom is a number of people who say they have seen the Resurrection.
C. S. Lewis
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History repeats itself because nobody listens the first time.
Erik Qualman
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The U.S. incarcerates more of its people than any nation in the world, or any nation in history.
Marianne Williamson
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For the first time in the history of our country the majority of our people believe that the next five years will be worse than the past five years.
Jimmy Carter
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Life’s all about the revolution, isn’t it? The one inside, I mean. You can’t change history. You can’t change the world. All you can ever change is yourself.
Jennifer Donnelly
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Our memory reaches back through recorded history. The memory book lies open, and the hand still writes.
Neal Bascomb
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I believe that the 21st century economy is an economy of people, not of factories. The intellectual factor has become increasingly important in the economy, which is why we are planning to focus on providing additional opportunities for people to realise their potential.
Vladimir Putin
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History has its truth, and so has legend. Legendary truth is of another nature than historical truth. Legendary truth is invention whose result is reality. Furthermore, history and legend have the same goal; to depict eternal man beneath momentary man.
Victor Hugo
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Inaugurals conventionally start with a history lesson and finish with a prayer.
Jonathan Raban
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We ask you therefore, not to judge us or think of us in terms of what we were -- or even of what we are - but rather to think of us in terms of history and what we will be tomorrow.
Ahmed Sekou Toure
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Equally, we require a collective past - hence the endless reinterpretations of history, frequently to suit the perceptions of the present.
Penelope Lively
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Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things.
Russell Baker
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The psychogenesis of the adult make-up in civilized society cannot, therefore be understood if considered independently of the sociogenesis of our "civilization." ... Individuals, in their short history, pass once more through some of the processes that their society has traversed in its long history.
Norbert Elias
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So I left him there alone to watch history repeat the same events retold again and again on his own.
Sarah Dessen
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If history is any indication, we should assume that any technology that is going to have a significant impact over the next 10 years is already 10 years old!
Bill Buxton
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The fullness of grace can transform the human heart and enable it to do something so great as to change the course of human history.
Pope Francis