History Quotes

It was considered at the time a striking proof of virtue in the young king that he was sorry for his father's death;but, as common subjects have that virtue too, sometimes, we will say no more about it.

Charles Dickens

Thanks to television, for the first time the young are seeing history made before it is censored by their elders.

Margaret Mead

We, therefore, here in Britain stand shoulder to shoulder with our American friends in this hour of tragedy, and we, like them, will not rest until this evil is driven from our world.

Tony Blair

There are times in history where a particular doctrine becomes a symbol of a greater problem.

Pat Robertson

I think you can learn from history.

Chuck Norris

The Revolution introduced me to art, and in turn, art introduced me to the Revolution!

Albert Einstein

The only history is a mere question of one's struggle inside oneself. But that is the joy of it. One need neither discover Americas nor conquer nations, and yet one has as great a work as Columbus or Alexander, to do.

David Herbert Lawrence

There's a lot of revisionist history that goes on these days about Iraq.

Joe Biden

We can't understand when we're pregnant, or when our siblings are expecting, how profound it is to have a shared history with a younger generation: blood, genes, humor. It means we were actually here, on Earth, for a time - like the Egyptians with their pyramids, only with children.

Anne Lamott

History's got no bows on it, only frayed ends of ribbons and knots that can't be untied.

Orson Scott Card

Don't let your history interfere with your destiny.

Steve Maraboli

I am intrigued by inanimate objects. They're a piece of history, someone's statement and ideas of life.

Mike Mills

You can't set a hen in one morning and have chicken salad for lunch.

George M. Humphrey

There is a spirit and a need and a man at the beginning of every great human advance. Every one of these must be right for that particular moment of history, or nothing happens.

Coretta Scott King

I'm the fourth generation to be in show business. It's pretty neat it's nice to have that family history.

Rachel Bilson

While we read history we make history.

George William Curtis

I think that both men, Bush and Blair, will be damned in history. Both men have made their respective countries the two most hated countries in the world.

George Galloway

That's history. I say history because it happened in the past.

Murray Walker

If you look at U.S. history through religious history, there is very much a motif that shows the importance religion has played in the U.S. We're a very religious country and it affects the way we look at various political issues.

Madeleine Albright

If good history is dispassionate history, it must naturally wait until the passions of the period subside.

James Buchan