History Quotes

My generation of bossy, confident, baby-boom women were something brand new in history. Our energy and assertiveness weren't created by Betty Friedan, unknown before her 1963 book, or by Gloria Steinem, whose political activism, as even the Lifetime profile admitted, did not begin until 1969.

Camille Paglia

In the history of the treatment of depression, there was the dunking stool, purging of the bowels of black bile, hoses, attempts to shock the patient. All of these represent hatred or aggression towards what depression represents in the patient.

James Hillman

Ideas shape the course of history.

John Maynard Keynes

They can shout down the head of the physics department at Cal Tech.

James Stockdale

I do consider myself part of black history.

Mary J. Blige

She was so ugly that if you grab a dictionary and look under the word ugly you would see her picture.

Rodney Dangerfield

They say 'love thy neighbor as thy self' , what am I supposed to do jerk him off too ?

Rodney Dangerfield

What a dog I got, he found out we look alike, so he killed himself.

Rodney Dangerfield

Hollywood has a history of raising expectations beyond Washington's reach, of appealing to the very American desire to mythologize political leaders, particularly the president.

Ron Fournier

Remember that all through history, there have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they seem invincible. But in the end, they always fall. Always.

Mahatma Gandhi

The dignity of history consists in reciting events with truth and accuracy, and in presenting human agents and their actions in an interesting and instructive form. The first element in history, therefore, is truthfulness; and this truthfulness must be displayed in a concrete form.

Daniel Webster

My major allegiance has been to storytelling, not to history.

Russell Banks

Macon has such a rich musical history - and the state of Georgia, as well.

Jason Aldean

I must admit, maybe I am a piece of history after all.

Alan Shepard

The great wars of the present age are the effects of the study of history.

Friedrich Nietzsche

All history is but the lengthened shadow of a great man

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I don't know the history of my sport. I'm not like those people who know everything.

Usain Bolt

I feel like I'm part of history being made. I leave Apple board meetings thinking, 'I've got to do a better job.'

Andrea Jung

I do have to say that I think that President Obama is the greatest President in the history of all of our Presidents, and that he can do no wrong in my book. So how's that for prejudice on the Democratic side?

Denis Leary

I am captivated more by dreams of the future than by the history of the past

Thomas Jefferson