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History Quotes

I want this book to be facts, to be important, to be history.

– Anatoli Boukreev

My favorite literature to read is fairly dry history. I like the framework, and my imagination can do the rest.

– Andrew Bird

I don’t sit down in front of my computer screen and think, ‘Right. Today I shall begin a story set in this or that period of history.’ I just get ideas from the world around me.

– Ann Turner

Europe and Africa share proximity and history, ideas and ideals, trade and technology. You are tied together by the ebb and flow of people. Migration presents policy challenges – but also represents an opportunity to enhance human development, promote decent work, and strengthen collaboration.

– Ban Ki-moon

History is formed by the people, those who have power and those without power. Each one of us makes history.

– Anselm Kiefer

The history of Buenos Aires is written in its telephone directory. Pompey Romanov, Emilio Rommel, Crespina D. Z. de Rose, Ladislao Radziwil, and Elizabeta Marta Callman de Rothschild – five names taken at random from among the R’s – told a story of exile, desolation, disillusion, and anxiety behind lace curtains.

– Bruce Chatwin

The Bush administration will go down in history as the Torture Team.

– Alex Gibney

One of the greatest things about being an artist is, as you get older, if you keep working hard in relationship to what you want the world to be and how you want it to become, there is a history of interesting growth that resonates with different moments in your life.

– Catherine Opie

Maybe philosophy – I love talking about ideas. Or maybe art history. I was thinking about psychology, then I got really afraid because everybody says it’s terribly boring.

– Claire Danes

History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.

– B. C. Forbes

In America journalism is apt to be regarded as an extension of history: in Britain, as an extension of conversation.

– Anthony Sampson

There is a big push that we all are engaged in, in wanting to have the newest in innovation – and I think that’s all really great. But I also feel that human beings need to be aware of, and grounded in, history.

– Bill Viola

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.

– Abraham Lincoln

I’ve made a dog’s breakfast of English history, geography, ‘King Lear,’ and the English language in general.

– Christopher Moore

When President Teddy Roosevelt posed for the cameras astride a massive steam shovel during construction of the Panama Canal in 1906, it was more than a simple photo op. Though the scene was clearly staged, it symbolized a crucial moment in American history.

– Alan Huffman

The people who have really made history are the martyrs.

– Aleister Crowley

We can never thank David Stern enough. His vision to use basketball to improve the quality of our lives to make this world a better and saner place, that guy, is the most important man in the history of basketball.

– Bill Walton

If Google decided at any point to publish my search history, or your search history, or anyone’s search history, there’s a litany of things they could idea police you about, and if it was published, you would be publicly shamed. Everyone would be publicly shamed. But we trust Google, and we trust the people that run that company.

– Ashton Kutcher

I go to the Natural History Museum and look at the cage of stuffed starlings there. But my favourite thing is the big blue whale. The scale of it is unbelievable, and makes you feel how insignificant you are as a human being.

– Arthur Darvill

New York State is giant and has some of the most beautiful landscape on the Eastern seaboard. There is so much history in New York State, from the Erie Canal to the Catskills, the birth of American stand-up comedy.

– Adam Savage

Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood?

– Carl Jung

Any history buffs, people who like religion, suspense and mystery mixed with history, or anyone who likes ‘The Da Vinci Code,’ needs to read Ken Follett.

– Bonnie Somerville

For something that’s supposed to be secret, there is a lot of intelligence history. Every time I read one book, two more are published.

– Alan Furst

De Sade is the one completely consistent and thoroughgoing revolutionary of history.

– Aldous Huxley

We have wasted History like a bunch of drunks shooting dice back in the men’s crapper of the local bar.

– Charles Bukowski

If you look back at the history of creativity in clothes – the French Revolution, the First World War and the Second World War – they have all been creative reinventions, the moment new forms of luxury come into play.

– Christian Lacroix

False history gets made all day, any day, the truth of the new is never on the news.

– Adrienne Rich

Mythology and history are my passion. I grew up in a religious family and learnt about our scriptures and philosophies. It’s the language I’m comfortable with.

– Amish Tripathi

I think that there are some teachers that do a very good job of incorporating culture and history. And there are some teachers who could use a little more help in that area.

– Anne Sullivan

The view of Jerusalem is the history of the world; it is more, it is the history of earth and of heaven.

– Benjamin Disraeli

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