History Quotes

There were three things sought by invaders who crossed oceans to discover America. Those were gold, gospel, glory. There are four things sought by aliens who crossed heavens to discover planet earth. Those are gold, gospel, glory, gene.

Toba Beta

In this respect, the history of science, like the history of all civilization, has gone through cycles.

Abdus Salam

No one makes history, no one sees it happen, no one sees the grass grow.

Boris Pasternak

Learning the truth has become my life's love

Dan Brown

Whosoever, in writing a modern history, shall follow truth too near the heels, it may happily strike out his teeth.

Walter Raleigh

DNA has memory!

Isaiah Washington

History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme.

Mark Twain

If the history of science teaches us anything, it is that what conquers our ignorance is research, not giving up and attributing our ignorance to the miraculous work of a creator.

Jerry Coyne

I don't have space to enter into the examples or the history of this, so I'm left with having to make the bold statement that culture is extinct.

Vivienne Westwood

History was a series of decisions about what to tell and a series of accidents about what survived after telling. Not truth, but a historian could search for truth, and the search was as worthy as any other human activity.

David Drake

Truth is the only merit that gives dignity and worth to history.

John Acton

Everything was going my way. I was happily marching into the history books. Then it all just fell apart.

George Michael

They were afraid, never having learned what I taught myself: Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear.

G. Gordon Liddy

...and it occurred to me, with the forcefulness of a thought experienced in 360 degrees, that that's really what history mostly is: masses of people doing ordinary things.

Bill Bryson

People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.

James A. Baldwin

Is there anything more plausible than a second hand? And yet it takes only the smallest pleasure or pain to teach us time's malleability. Some emotions speed it up, others slow it down; occasionally, it seems to go missing--until the eventual point when it really does go missing, never to return.

Julian Barnes

Some men are born posthumously.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Statutes authorizing unreasonable searches were the core concern of the framers of the 4th Amendment.

Sandra Day O'Connor

Beyond all sciences, philosophies, theologies, and histories, a child's relentless inquiry is truly all it takes to remind us that we don't know as much as we think we know.

Criss Jami

Culinary tradition is not always based on fact. Sometimes it's based on history, on habits that come out of a time when kitchens were fueled by charcoal.

Alton Brown