Top 1200 English History Quotes & Sayings - Page 14

The history of the past interests us only in so far as it illuminates the history of the present.

It may be that universal history is the history of the different intonations given a handful of metaphors.

You can always buy something in English, you can't always sell something in English.

History portrays everything as if it could not have come otherwise. History is on the side of what happened.

You might say that economic history is the history of people learning to manage risk.

I don't speak cockney and I don't pretend to come from that part of the world. For the longest time the English, like the Beatles and so on sounded American. "She loves you yeah yeah yeah!" All of the sudden you sound American. It doesn't work that way with Americans who try to sing English. It's not convincing. If I say "Footy" and "tele" and "Brissy" and "Sydney" and "Simmo" it's not convincing.

History does not repeat itself except in the minds of those who do not know history.

I feel Scottish when with English people, and when I'm with Scottish people, I realise I'm English.

It's down to schools to educate children about their history, especially black history.

History is a river that never ends. Today is history, and I am here at the fountainhead.

History is written by winners, so most history books are about people who win.

We as Black people have to tell our own stories. We have to document our history. When we allow someone else to document our history the history becomes twisted and we get written out. We get our noses blown off.

A community receives light from its history, it becomes aware of itself by remembrance of its history.

I'm trying to make history. I've always put history above money.

In the history of the collective as in the history of the individual, everything depends on the development of consciousness.

I'm a history buff, so I've been reading lots of books on Irish and American history.

The sign was spray-painted in Arabic and English, probably from some attempt by the farmer to sell his wares in the market. The English read: Dates-best price. Cold Bebsi. "Bebsi?" I asked. "Pepsi," Walt said. "I read about it on the Internet. There's no 'p' in Arabic. Everyone here calls the soda Bebsi." "So you have to have Bebsi with your bizza?" "Brobably.

The history of liberty has largely been the history of the observance of procedural safeguards.

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

To be blunt, I feel like lyricism in Spanish is of a different quality than English. You can get really poetic in Spanish, but I feel like if you do that in English, you risk sounding cheesy. In Spanish, it's never that. It's always this deep, passionate, beautiful imagery; it's painted different, a different color.

Another foundational truth is that God has a plan for history. History is providential, not accidental.

The history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward woman.

The biggest issue for me has been the language because I speak so much German now. I've had to focus on my English and find more words to describe what I want to say and also soften my tone. It was quite stiff from 20 years of speaking German, so when I started speaking more English, oh my god, my tongue was like: 'Argh'!

Real Madrid is like Manchester United or Liverpool or Bayern Munich. There is so much history, and you need to play and win against that history. It's difficult to play against them because you fight against everything - the history, the players - but because of that, the motivation is always so high.

My favourite film-maker west of the English Channel is not English - but to me doesn't seem American either - David Lynch - a curious American-European film-maker. He has - against odds - achieved what we want to achieve here. He takes great risks with a strong personal voice and adequate funds and space to exercise it. I thought Blue Velvet was a masterpiece.

More than 80 per cent of the British casualties of the Great War were English. More than 80 per cent of the taxation is paid by the English taxpayers. We are entitled to mention these facts, and to draw authority and courage from them.

The Royal Rumble is rich with history and one of the most popular events in WWE history.

History is a record of perpetual wars, but we are now trying to make new history.

The history of Napoleon now becomes, for 12 momentous years, the history of mankind.

United are special because of their history. They have so much history on a world level.

In this respect, the history of science, like the history of all civilization, has gone through cycles.

Look at the history of literature, and you find the history of beauty on the one hand and the IOUs on the other.

What le Carré is so good at is unpicking something very specific about Englishness. That is almost part of why I think he wrote the novel. You can feel le Carré's anger that someone who has had the benefits of an English education and an English upbringing is using that privilege to basically do the worst things imaginable. There is an anger in the book about that.

The doctrine of preemption has a long and distinguished history in the history of American foreign policy.

The big battle at the end of DW isn't drawn from history, but it's influenced by history, certainly.

History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are.

We have history as a guide, and history suggests that this brand of comprehensive reform ... is a recipe for failure.

My whole written history is one big lie! I mean, I can't even believe my history.

Greece's history in the drachma was an up-and-down history, a roller coaster.

Dylan Thomas is now as much a case history as a chapter in the history of poetry.

What is history after all? History is facts which become lies in the end.

I long for the time when all human history is taught as one history, because it really is.

History may never have all the facts, but history always has the last word.

The most powerful words in English are 'Tell me a story,' words that are intimately related to the complexity of history, the origins of language, the continuity of the species, the taproot of our humanity, our singularity, and art itself. I was born into the century in which novels lost their stories, poems their rhymes, paintings their form, and music its beauty, but that does not mean I had to like that trend or go along with it. I fight against these movements with every book I write.

People in Russia learned English off the Beatles. People in Japan learned English off the Stone Roses. Noel Gallagher says music can't change the world, but the Roses made him want to start a group, so it changed his world.

The function of traditional history is to create a citizenry that looks to the top - the president, Congress, the Supreme Court - to make the important decisions. That's what traditional history is all about: the laws that were passed, the decisions made by the court. So much of history is built around "the great men." All of that is very anti-democratic.

The Republican Party's history is rich and chock full of emancipation and black history.

The history of modern culture is a history of popular entertainments evolving into art.

I loved history because to me, history was like watching a movie.

If you look at my history, my history is that of forming bands rather than joining them.

My mom was a history teacher when I was a kid, so I hated history out of rebellion.

The history of the Church of Christ from the days of the Apostles has been a history of spiritual movements.

What happened last week doesn't matter. That's history. You have to make history every day.

A people without history Is not redeemed from time, for history is a pattern Of timeless moments.

When I was a kid, I loved history because history to me was a big story.

America is not a nation of separation. All our citizens are Americans. The common denominator is our language. Our language is English. The glue that binds generation after generation is both our Constitution and our English language.

When we start making distinctions between soul and spirit, we're in very, very murky waters. There is the whole issue of the English language, which has a rather limited vocabulary when it comes to psychological descriptions, not to speak of spiritual descriptions. We're good mythically - the English language is superb for myth. But we're not very good for psychology or spirituality.

The history of the world is the history of a few men who had faith in themselves

History had a slow pulse; man counted in years, history in generations

I'm a huge history buff. It was no hardship to read history textbooks for homework.