History Quotes

Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. And today? Today is a gift. That's why we call it the present.

Babatunde Olatunji

I want to reform the tax code so that it's simple, fair, and asks the wealthiest households to pay higher taxes on incomes over $250,000 - the same rate we had when Bill Clinton was president the same rate we had when our economy created nearly 23 million new jobs, the biggest surplus in history, and a lot of millionaires to boot.

Barack Obama

The past always seems somehow more golden, more serious, than the present. We tend to forget the partisanship of yesteryear, preferring to re-imagine our history as a sure and steady march toward greatness.

Jon Meacham

We learned the value of research in World War II.

Amar Bose

I graduated from the University of Delaware with a double major in history and political science.

Joe Biden

I know there's some kind of history to mountain music-like it came from Ireland or England or Scotland and we kept up the tradition.

Loretta Lynn

The only thing we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history.

Friedrich Hegel

If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.

E. O. Wilson

If I had a choice as to my perfect career, I would make a couple of films a year and then concentrate on natural history.

Dominic Monaghan

I think it was my study of history that convinced me that the Democratic Party was more on the side of the average American.

George McGovern

Violence is a part of America. I don't want to single out rap music. Let's be honest. America's the most violent country in the history of the world, that's just the way it is. We're all affected by it.

Spike Lee

Boy what a hotel that was, why they stole my towel.

Rodney Dangerfield

All in all, for someone who was immersed in, fascinated by, and dedicated to flight, I was disappointed by the wrinkle in history that had brought me along one generation late. I had missed all the great times and adventures in flight.

Neil Armstrong

Part of what I enjoy about the theatre and acting is that sense of history.

Liev Schreiber

One who comes to the Court must come to adore, not to protest. That's the new gloss on the 1st Amendment.

William O. Douglas

There aren't just bad people that commit genocide we are all capable of it. It's our evolutionary history.

James Lovelock

I was bused to a school in Gerritsen Beach in Brooklyn in 1972. I was one of the first black kids in the history of the school.

Chris Rock

History is the science of things which are not repeated.

Paul Valery

So many people of color who made major contributions to American history have been trapped in the purgatory of history.

Henry Louis Gates

My wife only has sex with me for a purpose. Last night it was to time an egg.

Rodney Dangerfield