History Quotes
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I shop at a lot of vintage stores because the prices are amazing, and I love the idea that there's a history behind the piece I'm wearing.
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I made history and therefore did not find time to write it.
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Sappho and Emily Dickinson are the only woman geniuses in poetic history.
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He was what I often think is a dangerous thing for a statesman to be - a student of history; and like most of those who study history, he learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.
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No matter what we call it, poison is still poison, death is still death, and industrial civilization is still causing the greatest mass extinction in the history of the planet.
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Making fake biography, false history, concocting a half-imaginary existence out of the actual drama of my life is my life.
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History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.
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The main thing is to make history, not to write it.
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Man is not a machine that can be remodelled for quite other purposes as occasion demands, in the hope that it will go on functioning as regularly as before but in a quite different way. He carries his whole history with him; in his very structure is written the history of mankind.
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If a strong government finds that it can, with impunity, destroy a weak people, then the hour has struck for that weak people to appeal to the League of Nations to give its judgment in all freedom. God and history will remember your judgment.
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Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.
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Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age.
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Sonata form could not be defined until it was dead. Czerny claimed with pride around 1840 that he was the first to describe it, but then it was already part of history.
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I am a proud Zionist. I can tell you about every blossom that grows in this land. I know the history and the Bible.
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The rules of evidence in the main are based on experience, logic, and common sense, less hampered by history than some parts of the substantive law.
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All the proliferating falsifications of what I and everyone I know experienced once in what it is now so convenient to call the 'fifties' or 'sixties,' as if life was really measured or lived in arbitrary decades, when the history books are sold like comix.
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The world is changed because you are made of ivory and gold. The curves of your lips rewrite history.
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In all my study of history, I have never found a time or place I would rather have lived than now.
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Love is the whole history of a woman's life, it is but an episode in a man's.
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In tragedy great men are more truly great than in history. We see them only in the crises which unfold them.
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Like most of those who study history, he (Napoleon III) learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.
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The nation is faced with one of the most corporate-orientated anti-consumer Congresses in our history.
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The results showed that Joe Mokoena and I had made history. For the first time in the history of education in South Africa, two African students had passed the JC with a First Class degree, regarded as a rare achievement for any student.
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After the Berlin Wall came down I visited that city and I will never forget it. The abandoned checkpoints. The sense of excitement about the future. The knowledge that a great continent was coming together. Healing those wounds of our history is the central story of the European Union.
