Americans have no sense of history. And not much memory. They don’t remember what happened yesterday. – Howard Fast
To a person growing up in the power of demography, it was clear that history had to do not with the powerful actions of certain men but with the processes of choice and preference. – George W. S. Trow
The children are taught more of the meanest state in Europe than of the country they are born and bred in, despite the singularity of its characteristics, the interest of its history, the rapidity of its advance, and the stupendous promise of its future. – Henry Lawson
The Marine Corps is the Navy’s police force and as long as I am President that is what it will remain. They have a propaganda machine that is almost equal to Stalin’s. – Harry S Truman
A strange thing is memory, and hope; one looks backward, and the other forward; one is of today, the other of tomorrow. Memory is history recorded in our brain, memory is a painter, it paints pictures of the past and of the day. – Grandma Moses
Long after this wonderful event in the Earth’s history, when the human species was spread over a good deal of Asia, Europe, and Africa, migration to the American continents began in attempts to find new feeding grounds and unoccupied areas for hunting and fishing. – Harry Johnston
The Obama administration and the Democratic Congress have taken the biggest lurch to the left in policy in American history. There’ve been no – no Congress, no administration that has run this far to the left in such a small period of time. And there is a reaction to that. – Haley Barbour
In my view, far from deserving condemnation for their courageous reporting, the New York Times, the Washington Post and other newspapers should be commended for serving the purpose that the Founding Fathers saw so clearly. – Hugo Black
I get a little sick of these New Yorkers who want me to make some psychic thing, like ‘The Left-Handed Gun.’ They don’t know anything about Western history. – Howard Hawks
The earth’s history over the past several million years is that for every 100,000 years, we go through a dramatic climatic cycle where we get 90,000 years of ice age and 10,000 years of a warm period. I think people today just have the expectation that we deserve a perfectly benign climate forever. – Hugh Ross
My object will be, first, to show by what connections the history of the fossil bones of land animals is linked to the theory of the earth and why they have a particular importance in this respect. – Georges Cuvier
The thing about black history is that the truth is so much more complex than anything you could make up. – Henry Louis Gates
I’m a staunch believer that we are in an earth cycle. There’s no question the planet is changing, and the fact that the Mayans had an end date and their history talks of change, I find that fascinating. – George Noory
I’m into the vampire stuff. I think it’s really fascinating and interesting. There’s a lot of history behind all of that, and if you look into it, it’s really interesting stuff. – Gloria Votsis
I have been curious about Haiti for many years. The history of the country is as fascinating as it is turbulent. – Henry Rollins
So many people of color who made major contributions to American history have been trapped in the purgatory of history. – Henry Louis Gates
Look at what has occurred in history. When the Berlin Wall fell, it was not surprising, but it was unexpected. Who predicted the Arab Spring? Nobody expected it, but all the ingredients were there. I think all the ingredients are also there for Quebec to become a country. But when? That’s another question. – Gilles Duceppe
The new history is really ancient history newly discovered. Journalists are taking crash courses in the blood-drenched background of Serbs, Croats, Bosnians, North Ossetians, Armenians and Azerbaijanis. – Henry Grunwald
Immigration reform doesn’t impact me personally; nothing my foundation works on does. But the truth is I have a long history of ties to Latin America. Some of my best friends are in Latin America. – Howard Graham Buffett
Manchester United are not just some club. To be part of this club also means to be part of a great history. – Henrikh Mkhitaryan
It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise. – Henry Kissinger
I think there was a revolution in poetry, associated chiefly with Eliot and Pound; but maybe it is of the nature of revolutions or of the nature of history that their innovations should later come to look trivial or indistinguishable from technical tricks. – Howard Nemerov
The history of apartheid-era South Africa is incredibly sad and at times infuriatingly incomprehensible. – Henry Rollins
In spite of overwhelming evidence, it is most difficult for a citizen of western Europe to bring thoroughly home to himself the truth that the civilisation which surrounds him is a rare exception in the history of the world. – Henry James Sumner Maine
Misty Copeland is making history. During American Ballet Theatre’s current season at the Metropolitan Opera House, Copeland will alight on that storied Lincoln Center stage, making her New York debut as the Swan Queen in the iconic masterpiece Swan Lake – a crowning achievement for any dancer, regardless of the color of her skin. – Heather Watts
In the history of literature there are many great enduring works which were not published in the lifetimes of the authors. If the authors had not achieved self-affirmation while writing, how could they have continued to write? – Gao Xingjian
Social history might be defined negatively as the history of a people with the politics left out. – G. M. Trevelyan
