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History Quotes

A war still rages over the legacy of the 1960s.

– Camille Paglia

The fleet sailed to its war base in the North Sea, headed not so much for some rendezvous with glory as for rendezvous with discretion.

– Barbara Tuchman

We are all tourists in history, and irony is what we win in wars.

– Anatole Broyard

It always trips me out that America, the most powerful and magnificent nation in the history of the world, whose might was built by immigrants from all over the world, only speaks one language.

– Cheech Marin

I’m not convinced that women have the education or the sense of their own history enough or that they understand the cruelty of which men are capable and the delight that many men will take in seeing you choose to chain yourself – then they get to say ‘See, you did it yourself.’

– Alice Walker

No human being in history was all good or all bad, or all black or all white.

– Anastasia Griffith

Providence conceals itself in the details of human affairs, but becomes unveiled in the generalities of history.

– Alphonse de Lamartine

I’m mostly concentrating now on continuing to make history in Hip-Hop, making everybody proud of me, I’m not just a rapper now, I’m in history now.

– Big Pun

Fate and history have a similar feeling. They are weird mirrors to each other.

– Alexander Chee

I’ve done a number of things in the spirit of employee motivation. I tend to be a storyteller and a student of history. I often tell stories of great battles, like the battle of Thermopylae, to inspire teams who face what appear to be insurmountable odds.

– Brad D. Smith

In the 7th grade, I made a 20-foot long mural of the Lewis and Clark Trail while we were studying that in history because I knew I wasn’t going to be able to spit back the names and the dates and all that stuff on a test.

– Chuck Close

To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn’t everything.

– Albert Camus

Musical theatre history is littered with bad reviews for now classic pieces.

– Andrew Lloyd Webber

I surrendered to a world of my imagination, reenacting all those wonderful tales my father would read aloud to me. I became a very active reader, especially history and Shakespeare.

– Andrew Wyeth

In the tumult of men and events, solitude was my temptation; now it is my friend. What other satisfaction can be sought once you have confronted History?

– Charles de Gaulle

There are but a handful of times in the history of our country when there occurs a transformation so remarkable that a molt seems to take place, and an altered country begins to emerge.

– Doris Kearns Goodwin

I didn’t mean to spend my life writing American history, which should have been taught in the schools, but I saw no alternative but to taking it on myself. I could think of a lot of cheerier things I’d rather be doing than analyzing George Washington and Aaron Burr. But it came to pass, that was my job, so I did it.

– Gore Vidal

No one believes more strongly than I do that every Christian should be a theologian. In that sense, we all need to work it out. I want all Christians who can read, to read their Bibles and to read beyond the Bible – to read the history and theology.

– D. A. Carson

People sometimes ask me to name the greatest coach in NFL history. George Halas may have set the standard, but Don Shula has won more games than anyone, and he has done it in the most competitive era. He had an incomparable ability to evaluate players, to motivate them, and to teach them the game of football.

– Marv Levy

The deliberate and deadly attacks which were carried out yesterday against our country were more than acts of terror. They were acts of war.

– George W. Bush

Classic music will always come across better on the ice because skating has such a rich history, rooted in tradition.

– Gracie Gold

I was able to endure and play a special part in music history. And I always managed to keep working, even if I wasn’t a big solo artist.

– Merry Clayton

The study of history reveals that human progress has not been continuous and regular, but intermittent and spasmodic, often depending upon apparently accidental causes. It is difficult to get a cross-section view of society at any given stage.

– Charles A. Beard

Marriage is a core institution of societies throughout the world and throughout history. It’s something that has provided permanence and stability for our very social structure.

– David Vitter

With the likely nominations of Barack Obama by the Democrats and John McCain by the Republicans, one of these two parties is headed for a 2009 crack-up that could prove as messy as any party civil war in recent history.

– Chuck Todd

I like historical pieces. History was my favorite subject in school, it was the only subject I excelled in. I love the idea of history and the idea that we may have the opportunity to learn from our past mistakes.

– Cary Elwes

Society may no longer define marriage in the only way marriage has ever been defined in the annals of recorded history. Many societies allowed polygamy, many allowed child marriages, some allowed marriage within families; but none, in thousands of years, defined marriage as the union of people of the same sex.

– Dennis Prager

I have no real training in the history of fine art or furniture; my eye just works by proportions. I react intuitively. In London, it’s all about color because the weather is so gray, and in that cold light they look beautiful.

– Mario Testino

Jerry Bruckheimer really is an executive producer, who obviously is the most successful producer in the history of film and television.

– Dylan McDermott

The history of science shows that theories are perishable. With every new truth that is revealed we get a better understanding of Nature and our conceptions and views are modified.

– Nikola Tesla

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