History Quotes

The pyramids, attached with age, have forgotten the names of their founders.

Richard Buckminster Fuller

The one duty we owe to history is to rewrite it.

Oscar Wilde

Questa luce, cioè la storia, è spietata; essa ha questo di strano e di divino, e cioè che quantunque sia luce, e precisamente perché è luce, mette spesso dell'ombra l? dove si vedono raggi; dello stesso uomo fa due fantasmi differenti, e l'uno attacca l'altro, e ne fa giustizia, e le tenebre del despota lottano con lo splendore del capitano. Da qui, una misura più vera nell'apprezzamento definitivo dei popoli. Babilonia violata diminuisce Alessandro; Roma incatenata diminuisce Cesare; Gerusalemme uccisa diminuisce Tito. La tirannia segue il tiranno. E' una sventura per un uomo lasciare dietro di sé dell'ombra che ha la forma sua.

Victor Hugo

I'm really interested in modern history, but to fulfill a History degree at Brown you have to do modern and pre-modern.

Emma Watson

I was alive when the Dead Sea was just a lake that was feeling a little poorly.

Cassandra Clare

To this wonderful page in our country's history another more glorious still will be added, and the slave shall show at last to his free brothers a sharpened sword forged from the links of his fetters.

Giuseppe Garibaldi

Was it not enough punishment and suffering in history that we were uprooted and made helpless slaves not only in new colonial outposts but also domestically.

Robert Mugabe

It's in the history books, the Holocaust. It's just a phrase. And the truth is it happened yesterday. It happened to my mother. I never met my grandmothers or my grandfathers. They were all wiped up in the gas chambers of Nazi Germany.

Gene Simmons

Time and time again, history has proved that the conservatives are right and the liberals are wrong.

Stockwell Day

Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.

C. S. Lewis

Anybody who comes to the cinema is bringing they're whole sexual history, their literary history, their movie literacy, their culture, their language, their religion, whatever they've got. I can't possibly manipulate all of that, nor do I want to.

David Cronenberg

Hiding from your history only shackles you to it. Instead, face it and free yourself.

Steve Maraboli

Sometimes - history needs a push.

Vladimir Lenin

History offers no evidence for the proposition that the assignment of women to military combat jobs is the way to win wars, improve combat readiness, or promote national security.

Phyllis Schlafly

Last week my tie caught on fire, some guy tried to put it out with an axe.

Rodney Dangerfield

In a typical history book, black Americans are mentioned in the context of slavery or civil rights. There's so much more to the story.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

People ask if I can get it up in the morning. I tell them are you kidding I'm envious of a stiff wind.

Rodney Dangerfield

COLUMBUS BROUGHT SMALLPOX TO THE NATIVES; WE SHALL RECALL THE OCCASION WITH A PICNIC!

John Green

There are no extraordinary men... just extraordinary circumstances that ordinary men are forced to deal with.

William Halsey

What a dog I got. I tried to mate her she wants 50 biscuits.

Rodney Dangerfield