History Quotes

Great men are usually the products of their times and one of the men developed by these times takes rank with the greatest railroad leaders in history.

John Moody

Today, for the first time in history, a Bishop of Rome sets foot on English soil. This fair land, once a distant outpost of the pagan world, has become, through the preaching of the Gospel, a beloved and gifted portion of Christ's vineyard.

Pope John Paul II

We also have to make sure our children know the history of women. Tell them the rotten truth: It wasn't always possible for women to become doctors or managers or insurance people. Let them be armed with a true picture of the way we want it to be.

Anne Roiphe

She was so ugly that they use her in prisons to cure sex offenders.

Rodney Dangerfield

The history of the past interests us only in so far as it illuminates the history of the present.

Ernest Dimnet

Since I was there in the very beginning, I know the history of the characters. So, I make comments about the tone and sometimes remind the writers that we've done that before.

Matt Groening

History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.

Ronald Reagan

I'm so intrigued by women throughout history where the significance of what they were representing at that time is obscured by the fact a man saved them or they were prostitutes.

Zoe Saldana

We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

I once went out with this girl, she was no bargain either, she showed up with pigtails under her arms.

Rodney Dangerfield

I love those historians that are either very simple or most excellent. Such as are between both (which is the most common fashion), it is they that spoil all; they will needs chew our meat for us and take upon them a law to judge, and by consequence to square and incline the story according to their fantasy.

Michel de Montaigne

It will not do to investigate the subject of religion too closely, as it is apt to lead to infidelity.

Abraham Lincoln

Horror is the natural reaction to the last 5,000 years of history.

Robert Anton Wilson

Assassination has never changed the history of the world.

Benjamin Disraeli

It's incredible to have been part of fashion history - my whole career has been one big highlight.

Helena Christensen

And remember, where you have a concentration of power in a few hands, all too frequently men with the mentality of gangsters get control. History has proven that.

Lord Acton

The main thing is to make history, not to write it.

Otto von Bismarck

The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.

George Orwell

I think the materialist conception of history is valid.

Christopher Hitchens

In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.

Charles Darwin