It is normal for politicians in all countries to profess themselves the pupils of history, anxious to draw the right lessons from her teaching. – Douglas Hurd
There are certain moments in the history of a nation when the choices made define the decades to come. – George Papandreou
The Seven Cities of Gold always fascinated me. Southwestern U.S. history especially fascinates me. The whole spur of the Spanish exploration of the Southwestern U.S. was the search for these mythical Seven Cities of Gold. – Neil Peart
We have a revolutionary history to honor and uphold. Which was what Nelson Mandela did. He reminded us of that which we need to be reminded, over and over again, about our own best selves. – Charlie Pierce
You have to enjoy yourself when you go to the movies. People don’t want to spend their hard earned money to simply go see a history lesson. – F. Gary Gray
September 11 was terrible but, if one goes back over the history of the IRA, what happened to the Americans wasn’t that terrible. – Doris Lessing
Serbian history tells that the family is the most important thing and you have to stick with the family. – Novak Djokovic
If the only time you think of me as a scientist is during Black History Month, then I must not be doing my job as a scientist. – Neil deGrasse Tyson
The history of thought may be summed up in these words: it is absurd by what it seeks and great by what it finds. – Paul Valery
In the old days… it was a basic, cardinal fact that producers didn’t have opinions. When I was producing natural history programmes, I didn’t use them as vehicles for my own opinion. They were factual programmes. – David Attenborough
History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind. – Edward Gibbon
I understand people, and I think that my life and my history and what I represent can relate to a lot of the women, the independents, the moderate voters. – Mia Love
Those who invoke history will certainly be heard by history. And they will have to accept its verdict. – Dag Hammarskjold
Throughout history, it took centuries for the habits of one culture to materially affect another. Now, that which becomes popular in one country can sweep through others within months. – Dee Hock
I populated ‘The Bourne Identity’ with real characters from American history, specifically characters from the Iran-Contra affair, which my father ran the investigation of. But at the heart of it was a fictional character. – Doug Liman
I love Boston. I love Fenway Park. I love Red Sox history. But in no way am I a Red Sox fan. – George Vecsey
Every great crisis of human history is a pass of Thermopylae, and there is always a Leonidas and his three hundred to die in it, if they can not conquer. – George William Curtis
After the Volcker Fund collapsed, I got another grant from the Lilly Endowment to do a history of the U.S., which I worked on from 1962-66. The original idea was to take the regular facts and put a libertarian assessment on everything. – Murray Rothbard
I am convinced that the stratigraphic method will in the future enable archaeology to throw far more light on the history of American culture than it has done in the past. – Edward Sapir
It is a fair summary of history to say that the safeguards of liberty have been forged in controversies involving not very nice people. – Felix Frankfurter
I’m completely absorbed by Peter Guralnick’s definitive, two-part biography of Elvis Presley: ‘Last Train To Memphis’ and ‘Careless Love.’ Meticulously researched, this is a compelling mix of history, myth-busting, and, of course, some timeless music. – Mark Billingham
In most of history, societies have not been free. It’s a very rare society that is free. The default condition of human societies is tyranny. – Michael Novak
I think I was the youngest, fastest-promoted buyer in the history of Bloomingdale’s. – Mickey Drexler
For me, it is always part of my holiday to go and work my way along the shelf in the local artisan bakery with its breads, savoury tartlets, pastries and cakes. It is soul food: one of those things that tells you about a place and the history of a place and its people. – Paul Hollywood
The election, and even the re-election, of a black man as president, in a country that is 87 percent non-black – a first in human history – has had no impact on what are called ‘racial tensions.’ – Dennis Prager
I became a prime minister within four-and-a-half years, the shortest kind of career ever in Israeli political history. – Ehud Barak
It’s funny, I’m very analytical in my real life, but in terms of my films, I try to not analyze them at all and let things just go into them and let them be what they are. I mean, people ask me to this day what ‘The Squid and the Whale’ stood for, and I have no idea except that it’s an exhibit in the Natural History Museum. – Noah Baumbach
The Stonewall riots were a key moment for gay people. Throughout modern history, gays had thought of themselves as something like a mental illness or maybe a sin or a crime. Gay liberation allowed us to make the leap to being a ‘minority group,’ which made life much easier. – Edmund White
America may be slow to rise to a challenge. But our history has shown that once we make up our minds to really do something, nothing can stand in our way. – Carrie P. Meek