Menu

Free Literature Study Guides
The Great Gatsby
Hamlet

Free Literature Study Guides
The Great Gatsby
Hamlet

History Quotes

I come from a family that has a long history in the legal community of New York and New York state.

– David Zabel

The history of the Zionist enterprise is well-known: surrounded and outnumbered by hostile neighbours, the nascent Israel was forced to defend itself against invasion and certain destruction.

– Ehud Olmert

You have Extreme and Van Halen and the history that I have with other people I played with. There are some effects that will hopefully break that stereotype.

– Gary Cherone

The existing world economic order constitutes a system of plundering and exploitation like no other in history. Thus, the peoples believe less and less in statements and promises.

– Fidel Castro

Although I’ve lived in England for more than twenty years, I still have a foreigner’s passion for all the details of English history and rural life.

– Meg Rosoff

Active people don’t change the world profoundly; ideas do. Napoleon is less important in world history than Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

– Michel Houellebecq

Roger King is, without a doubt, the greatest salesman in the history of anything. And I don’t ever limit him just to television. He could sell you anything.

– Merv Griffin

Remember that in every single case in history the process of adaptation has been one of exceeding slowness. Do not look for the impossible, but do not let your path deviate from the quiet and steadfast insistence on full opportunities for your powers.

– Franz Boas

I do have to say that I think that President Obama is the greatest President in the history of all of our Presidents, and that he can do no wrong in my book. So how’s that for prejudice on the Democratic side?

– Denis Leary

I’ve stopped reading fiction. I don’t read it at all. I read other things: history, biography. I don’t have the same interest in fiction that I once did.

– Philip Roth

I think the rise of quantitative econometrics and a highly mathematical approach to risk management was the obverse of a decline in interest in financial history.

– Niall Ferguson

I take the world very personally. I take history personally; I want to place myself in the larger context.

– Marianne Wiggins

When African-Americans come to France, the French show them more consideration than they would show an African or a Black Caribbean. When African-Americans come to France, the French people are like, ‘Oh, wow. Oh my God.’ But if it’s an African, they’re like, ‘Whatever.’ It’s all because of the past, because of our history.

– Euzhan Palcy

Things have never been more like the way they are today in history.

– Dwight D. Eisenhower

Louis Vuitton has a long history with collaborations.

– Delphine Arnault

Be as a tower firmly set; Shakes not its top for any blast that blows.

– Dante Alighieri

We should honor Franklin Delano Roosevelt today as the greatest commander in chief of the Armed Forces of the United States in our history, bar none – including President Lincoln.

– Nigel Hamilton

The kitchen is the heart of every home, for the most part. It evokes memories of your family history.

– Debi Mazar

I believe that natural history has lost much by the vague general treatment that is so common.

– Ernest Thompson Seton

I am thankful the most important key in history was invented. It’s not the key to your house, your car, your boat, your safety deposit box, your bike lock or your private community. It’s the key to order, sanity, and peace of mind. The key is ‘Delete.’

– Elayne Boosler

People in millenniums ahead will know what we were like in the 1930’s and the thing that, the important major things that shaped our history at that time. This is as important for historic reasons as any other.

– Gordon Parks

Over the years, more than one reviewer has described my fantasy series, ‘A Song of Ice and Fire’, as historical fiction about history that never happened, flavoured with a dash of sorcery and spiced with dragons. I take that as a compliment.

– George R. R. Martin

I think I regard any history in quotes, because just like science, we’re constantly revising science, we’re constantly revising history. There’s no question that various victors throughout history have flat out lied about certain events or written themselves into things, and then you come along and you find out that this disproves that.

– David S. Goyer

The business, task or object of the scientific study of languages will if possible be 1) to trace the history of all known languages. Naturally this is possible only to a very limited extent and for very few languages.

– Ferdinand de Saussure

For the first time in history, a private company is organizing a mission to the moon. This mission will inspire countries of the world, citizens, our youth.

– Eric C. Anderson

And religion causes most of the problems, war, and economics of course, and study your history or you’re going to repeat it; and if you’re burning a Harry Potter book you need some serious counseling, you don’t get it, you’re missing the whole point.

– Michael Berryman

Anyone who believes you can’t change history has never tried to write his memoirs.

– David Ben-Gurion

It is true that as people, we tend to remember only the positive. With time, the grim details fade away, and as a species we survive on this notion. In our desire to gloss over the undeniable macabre parts of our American history, we forget. That amnesia manifests itself, especially when dealing with the plight of black men.

– Colman Domingo

George W. Bush was president through some of the darkest days of our history and yet his optimism never waned. He is optimistic by nature, but he also understood the importance of always communicating a sense that things will get better.

– Mark McKinnon

The Big Bang theory is the idea that if we go back early enough in the history of the universe – and we can do this, of course, by looking at starlight coming to us from billions of years ago – we will see a very hot and dense period where the universe was much smaller, denser, and hotter.

– David Gross

- 1
- 2
- …
- 44
- 45
- 46
- 47
- 48
- …
- 145
- 146