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History Quotes

I enjoy art, architecture, museums, churches and temples; anything that gives me insight into the history and soul of the place I’m in. I can also be a beach bum – I like to laze in the shade of a palm tree with a good book or float in a warm sea at sundown.

– Cherie Lunghi

Assassination has never changed the history of the world.

– Benjamin Disraeli

History is only written from what remains.

– Jill Lepore

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

– Confucius

To take wine into our mouths is to savor a droplet of the river of human history.

– Clifton Fadiman

Just like I am obsessed with the history of fashion, I love reading about the history of makeup.

– Cyndi Lauper

The greatest untapped reservoir of raw material in the history of our game is the black race.

– Branch Rickey

Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but the silencing of misery.

– Albert Camus

The history of our country is not the history of any other country in the world which is either practicing advanced democracy or struggling to lay the foundation for democracy.

– Ibrahim Babangida

Music can be healing, and with my history and my knowledge of both sides of what looks like a gigantic divide in the world, I feel I can point a way forward to our common humanity again.

– Cat Stevens

Smallpox, which spreads by respiration and kills roughly one in three of those infected, took hundreds of millions of lives during a recorded history dating to Pharaonic Egypt. The last case was in 1978, and the disease was declared eradicated on May 8, 1980.

– Barton Gellman

When I started researching history in the 1960s, a lot of women about whom I’ve subsequently written were actually footnotes to history. There was a perception that women weren’t important. And it’s true. Women were seen historically as far inferior to men.

– Alison Weir

I grew up reading thrillers, science fiction, fantasy – you name it – and one day I asked myself if there was a reason why a fear of spiders was so common. Was there something buried deep in our evolutionary history that made being scared of spiders a survival instinct?

– Alexi Zentner

After spending 460 days as a hostage, I did emerge a fundamentally changed person. But I think, like everyone does as they grow older and probably wiser, I can look back at my earlier life – my history, my mistakes, the joy I felt as a young woman traveling the world – with some objectivity and even some humor.

– Amanda Lindhout

We have to start processing what we’re really made of in America. American character is not dead. American integrity and honesty are not dead. When we’re backed up against the wall against the largest corporations in the history of corporations, it’s there.

– Josh Fox

Washington’s birthday is worthy of celebration – he is one of the greatest men in history. But Washington himself would likely have seen celebration of the office of the presidency itself as monarchic in nature.

– Ben Shapiro

Jazz in itself is not struggling. That is, the music itself is not struggling… It’s the attitude that’s in trouble. My plays insist that we should not forget or toss away our history.

– August Wilson

Neurologically, people have a need to feel oriented, to know where they are, not just in terms of a compass and not just in terms of geography, but in terms of their culture and history. To be informed about where they’re coming from and to have some glimpse towards a hopeful future.

– James Howard Kunstler

We have become aware of the responsibility for our attitude towards the dark pages in our history. We have understood that bad service is done to the nation by those who are impelling to renounce that past.

– Aleksander Kwasniewski

History was a hobby for about, oh, 20 years before I got into print.

– Alison Weir

I want people to be excited about cooling towers and megasheds; they’re as much part of our history as the rural barn.

– Antony Gormley

The resignation of Attorney General Eric Holder is met with both pride and disappointment by the Civil Rights community. We are proud that he has been the best Attorney General on Civil Rights in U.S. history and disappointed because he leaves at a critical time when we need his continued diligence most.

– Al Sharpton

The most important in the history of nations and individuals was once the most trivial, and vice versa. The plebeian, who is called today the ‘man in the street,’ can never see and understand the significance of the hidden seed of things, which in time must develop or die.

– Ameen Rihani

When you have a child, you think about your personal history and what you offer them as a larger narrative, and I realised I knew nothing about my father’s circumstances other than what he’d told me.

– John Burnside

Of all the principles which constitute Liberal Democracy, internationalism is the clearest, the most distinctive, and the one with the longest history.

– Charles Kennedy

I almost failed drama at school. I hated it. It was all about the history of theatre.

– Brenton Thwaites

Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers.

– Carlos Fuentes

The idea of ‘Yes on Broadway’ has come up. It would reflect the history of Yes.

– Chris Squire

Creativity is not the property of artists alone. It’s a basic element of the human character, no matter what culture you’re in, no matter where you are on Earth or in history.

– Bill Viola

Although… the Chief Magistrate must almost of necessity be chosen by a party and stand pledged to its principles and measures, yet in his official action he should not be the President of a party only, but of the whole people of the United States.

– James K. Polk

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