History Quotes
-
We know in history that great individuals have totally changed everything, whether it be Jesus Christ or Abraham Lincoln or Winston Churchill or Albert Einstein. I actually think every person can make a difference.
Barbara Marx Hubbard
-
As an actor, you have to have your history.
Nora Dunn
-
A body can only deliver up the truth its bones know, Its blood, which is its history.
Catherynne M. Valente
-
Truth is in history, but history is not the truth.
Nicolas Gomez Davila
-
Jazz in itself is not struggling. That is, the music itself is not struggling... It's the attitude that's in trouble. My plays insist that we should not forget or toss away our history.
August Wilson
-
We want to explore. We're curious people. Look back over history, people have put their lives at stake to go out and explore ... We believe in what we're doing. Now it's time to go.
Eileen Collins
-
History is a mighty dramos, enacted upon the theatre of times, with suns for lamps and eternity for a background.
Thomas Carlyle
-
In all the history of organized labor, from the earliest times to the present day, no body of union workingmen ever served in a more humiliating and debasing role than that in which the railway unions appear at this very hour before the American people and the world.
Eugene V. Debs
-
I'll leave here with my head held high and with confidence that history will judge my time here.
Eric Holder
-
History was a living thing with an endless supply of stories, of lessons to apply to the present of one’s own life.
Eric Van Lustbader
-
It's “Into Thin Air” there in print forever. It's part of history. People should be above taking someone else down. And for what? For money and egos people are willing to destroy other people to further their careers.
David Breashears
-
History simmers beneath the surface in more communities than just Ferguson.
Eric Holder
-
I actually think that history has fed off the restlessness of cyber space, of kind of the frantic, segmented nature of the way we lead our lives. People want to be connected.
Simon Schama
-
It being a remarkable fact in theatrical history, but one long since established beyond dispute, that it is a hopeless endeavor to attract people to a theatre unless they can be first brought to believe that they will never get in.
Charles Dickens
-
I have a clear view of 12 years of history of my inner self. First the cramped self, that self with big blinkers, then the disappearance of the blinkers and the self, now gradually the reemergence of a self without blinkers.
Paul Klee
-
In a society with a long history of discrimination, there should be a presumption that many laws with a discriminatory impact likely were motivated by a discriminatory purpose.
Erwin Chemerinsky
-
The simple fact is that we must not-and we will not-surrender our borders to those who wish to exploit our history of compassion and justice.
Bill Clinton
-
We have this history of impossible solutions to insoluble problems.
Will Eisner
-
Someone calls biography the home aspect of history.
Henry Ward Beecher
-
The history of colonisation cannot disappear.
Claire Denis
-
George W. Bush has gathered around him upper-crust C-students who know no history or geography.
Kurt Vonnegut
-
Luckily for writers - and unluckily for history - every scientific idea creates human conflict.
Scott Westerfeld
-
History is the footsteps of free men towards destiny.
Ernst Junger
-
... not only dowomen sufferindignities in daily life, but the literature of the world proclaims their inferiority and divinely decreed subjection in all history, sacred and profane, in science, philosophy, poetry, and song.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton