History Quotes
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When it comes to certain portions of our history, we've just forgotten it all.
Joe Morton -
Now, in the thermonuclear age, any misjudgment on either side about the intentions of the other could rain more devastation in several hours than has been wrought in all the wars of human history.
John F. Kennedy
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Don't ever forget your history," she sang, "or any wicked soul can lie to you and get away with it.
Jack Gantos -
We have a revolutionary history to honor and uphold. Which was what Nelson Mandela did. He reminded us of that which we need to be reminded, over and over again, about our own best selves.
Charlie Pierce -
And it has some weight, I mean, the whole history of the gargoyles, that's some wonderful stuff.
Keith David -
I saw no African people in the printed and illustrated Sunday school lessons. I began to suspect at this early age that someone had distorted the image of my people. My long search for the true history of African people the world over began.
John Henrik Clarke -
There's a tendency when we write history to do it with the power of hindsight and then assume almost god-like knowledge that nobody living through history has.
David Grann -
Before I went to New Orleans, I was a little scared of New Orleans. I don't know why. I had only been there a few times. Something about it made me feel nervous, knowing a bit about the history.
Harold Perrineau
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Part of our history includes the long struggle to pass the Chicago Human Rights Ordinance.
Fred Eychaner -
The existing world economic order constitutes a system of plundering and exploitation like no other in history. Thus, the peoples believe less and less in statements and promises.
Fidel Castro -
I read a lot of plays as a kid, but I didn't see that many plays, so I feel better-versed in film history and film structure. I just think it's easier to think in pictures.
Zoe Kazan -
Seldom aware of the intricate connection between the patterns of their own lives and the course of world history, ordinary people do not usually know what this connection means for the kind of people they are becoming and for the kind of history-making in which they might take part.
C. Wright Mills -
When history calls, history calls.
Olympia Snowe -
Biography is history seen through the prism of a person.
Louis Fischer
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Our language, history, and civilization shine out across every continent.
Emmanuel Macron -
It may seem unfashionable to say so, but historians should seize the imagination as well as the intellect. History is, in a sense, a story, a narrative of adventure and of vision, of character and of incident. It is also a portrait of the great general drama of the human spirit.
Peter Ackroyd -
History informs where we are and how we got here.
Dee Rees -
When you write a two thousand page history of the Second World War, the deportations and the concentration camps will take up five pages, and the gas chambers perhaps 20 lines.
Jean-Marie Le Pen -
If I didn't have a front-row seat on history, it was at least a seat on the aisle.
Dan Rather -
Wales is blessed with some truly magnificent castles, full of history and a must see for visitors.
Luke Evans
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All objects, all phases of culture are alive. They have voices. They speak of their history and interrelatedness. And they are all talking at once!
Camille Paglia -
We know from our own history that democratic institutions take decades to mature, and we know from past conflicts that freedom is not free.
Jim DeMint -
History should not be left to the historians. Rather, be like Churchill. Make history, and then write it.
Ferdinand Marcos -
One might regard architecture as history arrested in stone.
A. L. Rowse