History Quotes
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This is a moment in history where it is almost hard to catch your breath.
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Americans, more than most people, believe that history is the result of individual decisions to implement conscious intentions. For Americans, more than most people, history has been that.... This sense of openness, of possibility and autonomy, has been a national asset as precious as the topsoil of the Middle West. But like topsoil, it is subject to erosion; it requires tending. And it is not bad for Americans to come to terms with the fact that for them too, history is a story of inertia and the unforeseen.
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Each side tries to legitimize their aims by appealing to history, sometimes selectively choosing episodes and other times just by inventing history.
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The thing about black history is that the truth is so much more complex than anything you could make up.
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Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and history.
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The greatest films ever made in our history were cut on film, and I'm tenaciously hanging on to the process. I just love going into an editing room and smelling the photochemistry and seeing my editor wearing mini-strands of film around his neck.
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If you know your history, then you would know where you coming from, then you wouldn't have to ask me, who the heck do I think I am.
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Hip hop's got 30 years of history and we wanted to show that. A lot of us grew up with it.
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I love hockey because of the respect for history and for the game itself.
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I think of an intellectual as just being bookish, being interested in history books, utopian ideas, that kind of thing.
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People can burn archives; people can destroy evidence, but to say that history is perishable, that historical evidence is perishable, is different than saying that history is subjective.
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Rich as we are in biography, a well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one; and there are certainly many more men whose history deserves to be recorded than persons willing and able to record it.
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While I was coaching, I believe the motivation talk I gave my players that achieved the best results was in reference to their present game-day effort. I stressed the fact that today's performance could be the most important of their life. Yesterday's performance was already history. Tomorrow really never comes, so today's performance is what really counts.
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Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard.
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Someone calls biography the home aspect of history.
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History is a great cemetery: men, deeds, ideas are always dying as soon as they are born.
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It is a fact of history that those who seek to withdraw from its great experiments usually end up being overwhelmed by them.
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Paul's One Way Out is a fresh, intelligently arranged, and satisfyingly complete telling of the lengthy (and unlikely) history of the group that almost singlehandedly brought rock up to a level of jazz-like sophistication and virtuosity, introducing it as a medium worthy of the soloist's art. Oral histories can be tricky things: either penetrating, delivering information and backstories that get to the heart of how timeless music was made. Or too often, they lie flat on the page, a random retelling of repeated facts and reheated yarns. I'm happy to say that Paul's is in that first category.
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History simmers beneath the surface in more communities than just Ferguson.
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One man, she thought then, could build or destroy, could change time and history, for better or worse. One man. Or one woman.
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The idiot willingness to choose sides is what feeds the abattoir of history.
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History is too much about wars; biography too much about great men.
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It’s a cool area to be. It’s got a lot of history and, at the same time, there’s a lot of restaurants for me since I’m a terrible cook.
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Compton is this amazing place with a rich history. I see it as a new Brooklyn.
