History Quotes
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History is a ghost story. My own childhood has passed into history, and the ghosts I find there are the ghosts of Heroes and dragons and Berserks and witches, and it has become fashionable not to believe in these things anymore. But I believe, for I was there.
Cressida Cowell
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If cats could write history, their history would be mostly about cats.
Eugen Weber
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It would seem I wouldn’t have written anything if I weren’t influenced by Canada’s history, its weather, the landscape, and its stories.
Anne McDonald
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I’ve told myself I have a chance to make history, and that’s my focus.
Jordan Spieth
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Pen in Barack Obama hands is far more dangerous than any other president, at least in modern history, if not ever.
Eric Bolling
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Said 2,000 years of Christian history, baby And you ain't learned to love me yet?
Nick Cave
The Birthday Party
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All through history it's the nations that have given most to generals and the least to the people that have been the first to fall...
Harry S Truman
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The spirits are an age-old theme, a story from darkest history, and therefore a presentational anchor that can be used with many different magic tricks.
Eugene Burger
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At my age I'm exactly the kind of person who has lived through one of the most quickly changing periods known to history. Surely there could never be in seventy years so much change.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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We always admire the other person more after we've tried to do his job.
William Feather
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The problem is poverty. And it hides the problem. We often associate black churches with a history of protest. But prosperity gospel and megachurches tend to be rather soft on political issues. T.D. Jakes doesn't take a major stand on political issues. Creflo Dollar certainly doesn't.
Anthony B Pinn
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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.
George Will
