History Quotes

Imagine a part of the U.S.A., from which the U.S.A. started - where is the cradle of your history? This is Kosovo for Serbia.

Novak Djokovic

After Nixon resigned in 1974, he engaged in a very aggressive war with history, attempting to wipe out the Watergate stain and memory. Happily, history won, largely because of Nixon's tapes.

Bob Woodward

Storytelling in general is a communal act. Throughout human history, people would gather around, whether by the fire or at a tavern, and tell stories. One person would chime in, then another, maybe someone would repeat a story they heard already but with a different spin. It's a collective process.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

The game of history is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of the majority in the middle.

Eric Hoffer

Man is not logical and his intellectual history is a record of mental reserves and compromises. He hangs on to what he can in his old beliefs even when he is compelled to surrender their logical basis.

John Dewey

Given political history in Chile, it seemed to me that there was a critical task of consolidating a democracy and creating healthy civic-military and political-military relationships.

Michelle Bachelet

Permanent superiority has never been realized by any nation in history. After the rise comes the fall.

Paul Harris

Destiny is something not be to desired and not to be avoided. a mystery not contrary to reason, for it implies that the world, and the course of human history, have meaning.

Dag Hammarskjold

History repeats itself, and that's one of the things that's wrong with history.

Clarence Darrow

If history could teach us anything, it would be that private property is inextricably linked with civilization.

Ludwig von Mises

So the old Copenhagen interpretation needs to be generalized, needs to be replaced by something that can be used for the whole universe, and can be used also in cases where there is plenty of individuality and history.

Murray Gell-Mann

My place in history will depend on what I can do for the people and not on what the people can do for me.

William Jennings Bryan

From a reality perspective, I'm sure part of that is true, but this is the largest blackout in U.S. history. If that is not a signal that we have got a problem that needs to be fixed, I don't know what is.

Jennifer Granholm

History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

In many ways, history is marked as 'before' and 'after' Rosa Parks. She sat down in order that we all might stand up, and the walls of segregation came down.

Jesse Jackson

Our culture now wonderfully, alchemically transforms images and history into artistic material. The possibilities seem endless and wide open.

Jerry Saltz

In man - in the history of mankind, this has happened many times, and occupation leaders hang on to the land that they're occupying. People fight to liberate their land. But in the end, the people's will is what achieves victory.

Hassan Nasrallah

World War II ended the Great Depression with one of the great public-private industrial collaborations in the history of man.

Jon Meacham

History is littered with wars which everybody knew would never happen.

Enoch Powell

History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.

Edward Gibbon