History Quotes
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The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton -
The War on Terror is one of the most critical national security efforts in our history.
Sue Kelly
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In contemporary society the typical lady is an archaism, and can't hardly understand herself unless she knows her own history.
Emily James Smith Putnam -
Diamonds are a key component in the campaign to make poverty history.
Nicky Oppenheimer -
History is not was, it is.
William Faulkner -
Every generation tailors history to its taste.
Ada Louise Huxtable -
The laws of history tell us that only when the old is gone can the new take its place.
Wei Jingsheng -
Well behaved people and dreamers seldom make history. In fact, history has no place for such people.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
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It is very remarkable that while the words Eternal, Eternity, Forever, are constantly in our mouths, and applied without hesitation, we yet experience considerable difficulty in contemplating any definite term which bears a very large proportion to the brief cycles of our petty chronicles. There are many minds that would not for an instant doubt the God of Nature to have existed from all Eternity, and would yet reject as preposterous the idea of going back a million of years in the History of His Works. Yet what is a million, or a million million, of solar revolutions to an Eternity?
George Julius Poulett Scrope -
What's happening is that Asian and Latino and other groups without that history are more likely to end up in either black churches or white churches and then make them multiracial churches. I talk about that in the US we have two cultures.
Michael Emerson -
The Declaration of Independence is a sacred part of American history.
Paul Gillmor -
Whatever I was going into, whether it was going to be chorus or history or astronomy or whatever, do it right. Be a professional. Don't just do a half baked job. Do everything correctly. Get down. Learn the details of what you're going to do.
Heidi Hammel -
The awareness that health is dependent upon habits that we control makes us the first generation in history that to a large extent determines its own destiny.
Jimmy Carter -
I love hockey because of the respect for history and for the game itself.
George Vecsey
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Understanding the long, sordid history of gun control in America is key to understanding the dangers of disarming.
Niger Innis -
This is a moment in history where it is almost hard to catch your breath.
Hillary Clinton -
Truth is in history, but history is not the truth.
Nicolas Gomez Davila -
The thing people forget when they are looking for solutions is there is nothing final in history.
Amira Hass -
I don't care about history; all I care about is winning.
Stipe Miocic -
History is not the story of strangers, aliens from another realm; it is the story of us had we been born a little earlier. History is memory; we have to remember what it is like to be a Roman, or a Jacobite or a Chartist or even - if we dare, and we should dare - a Nazi. History is not abstraction, it is the enemy of abstraction.
Stephen Fry
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When I was trying to figure out why lives have improved so much in the last 300 years, where we've gone from a third of kids dying before 5 to - by 1990 it was down to 10% - now it's down to 5%. And saying why, over all history, there were smart people, but that number didn't change. Average life span didn't change. What's magical about what's been deemed the Industrial Revolution? It's really energy intensity.
Bill Gates -
The Bible, for all its riches, is not a document of social history.
Simon Schama -
It's really fascinating. I've never spent time in a place where they lost the wars, so it was interesting and I didn't know much about the history of the country. I didn't know they were under communist rule until the nineties. It's this whole attitude of being defeated, and frowning on optimism and American way of thinking. If we were laughing, Hungarian kids would be like "You're so American."
Evan Jones -
The history of science knows scores of instances where an investigator was in the possession of all the important facts for a new theory but simply failed to ask the right questions.
Ernst Mayr