Top 1200 English History Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

History is simply a piece of paper covered with print: the main thing is to make history, not to write it.

Daddy loved our country, he loved our history. He was always talking about American history and telling us stories from American history, and loved our most treasured values of freedom, democracy, justice.

I do belong to the club which doesn't see a distinction between academic history and popular history.

I'm not against knowing the history of white people in the U.S. - that's not the point. The point is that there's so much greater history. We don't know about Native Americans. Very basically, we don't know that much about African American history, except that they were enslaved. You only get bits and pieces.

The so-called lessons of history are for the most part the rationalizations of the victors. History is written by the survivors.

When you have a novel set in a fictional history, you still should get your history right.

Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time.

Human history is in truth nothing but the history of the slow, uncertain, and surprising fulfillment of the Promise.

The real mistake of women was to let the memoir, the collective, the history, space of producing history - to let it in the hands of men.

In Afghanistan, we have had a history of very strong women, and we need to reclaim that history and talk about it.

You want to be a part of something that is going to change history or make history or be bigger than yourself.

Western man wrote "his" history as if it were the history of the entire human race.

I love things that have one foot in history - I was going to be a history professor before I sold out and went into TV.

History never looks like history when you are living through it.

A history of literature, unlike history as such, ought to list only victories, for its defeats are no victory for anyone.

Should we be rewriting history just to make people feel good? That's not history, that's psychiatry.

The history of the human race is the history of ordinary people who have overcome their fears and accomplished extraordinary things.

My history as a manager cannot be compared with Frank Rijkaard's history. He has zero trophies and I have a lot of them.

History isn't what happened, history is just what historians tell us.

Social history might be defined negatively as the history of a people with the politics left out

God is the Lord of human history and of the personal history of every member of His redeemed family.

History is our guide, and without a knowledge of history, we are lost!

I can probably go down in history as the best backup point guard ever in NBA history.

The history of Oregon is partially the history of a state that legislated not wanting black people around.

Black history is American history. You cannot tell one story without telling the other.

Delusion about history is a serious matter; it can gravely affect the history that is waiting to be made.

Just like I am obsessed with the history of fashion, I love reading about the history of makeup.

Smallpox was the worst disease in history. It killed more people than all the wars in history.

History will record that the Citizens United decision is one of the worst in the history of our country.

Cherishing Columbus is a characteristic of white history, not American history.

History has to be rewritten because history is the selection of those threads of causes or antecedents that we are interested in.

The only reason I acted in school was because of the community. I was in the chorus of every play and was never the lead other than one time, but to me it was about the community. I was an English major and my whole goal was to be an English teacher and was lucky enough to get into the playwriting group. The whole experience I had at Brown was eye opening and the most mind-bending experience.

I've always been fascinated with the history of the Plains Indians and the history of the American Indian Movement in the '70s.

I try to find a style that matches the book. In the Baroque Cycle, I got infected with the prose style of the late 17th and early 18th centuries, which is my favorite era. It's recent enough that it is easy to read - easier than Elizabethan English - but it's pre-Victorian and so doesn't have the pomposity that is often a problem with 19th-century English prose. It is earthy and direct and frequently hilarious.

Although I write in English, and despite the fact that I'm from America, I consider myself an Armenian writer. The words I use are in English, the surroundings I write about are American, but the soul, which makes me write, is Armenian. This means I am an Armenian writer and deeply love the honor of being a part of the family of Armenian wrtiters.

I'm a history person; I love history. But I am conditioned by the present.

We believe that the history of the world is but the history of His influence and that the center of the whole universe is the cross of Calvary.

At the University of California at Berkeley, my interests broadened from military history to diplomatic history and other disciplines.

Truth can never be confined to time and culture; in history it is known, but it also reaches beyond history.

If good history is dispassionate history, it must naturally wait until the passions of the period subside.

Black history is part of American history, and it should be treated as such.

Men make history, but they can never know the history they are making.

To learn the history of the banjo is to recover the actual history of America.

The history of life on earth has been a history of interaction between living things and their surroundings.

Social history might be defined negatively as the history of a people with the politics left out.

You know, if you're an American and you're born at this time in history especially, you're lucky. We all are. We won the world history Powerball lottery...

English audiences of working people are like an instrument that responds to the player. Thought ripples up and down them, and if in some heart the speaker strikes a dissonance there is a swift answer. Always the voice speaks from gallery or pit, the terrible voice which detaches itself in every English crowd, full of caustic wit, full of irony or, maybe, approval.

History should not be left to the historians. Rather, be like Churchill. Make history, and then write it.

Remember that history always repeats itself. Every great bubble in history has broken. There are no exceptions.

Western history has been a history of deed done, actions performed and results achieved.

History devours, but at times it resurrects. Some lives must wait for history to catch up.

I think we're a band with a lot of history now so it's nice to come up with something that doesn't have any history at all.

What I'm passionate about is History, and politics interest me only insofar as it is the cross-section of History in the present.

I am delighted to be here at Arsenal and to be part of one of the great teams in English football. It's a huge satisfaction to join this great club and it’s been a dream since I was young to play in the Premier League. I was attracted by the philosophy of football and Arsène Wenger’s 'touch' at this club. I have always admired Arsenal with its great history and reputation, and I now hope to achieve great things here. I’m very proud to be a Gunner and I will give my best for all the Arsenal fans.

Reading history while you make history can teach you a lot.

The history of empires is the record of human misery; the history of the sciences is that of the greatness and happiness of mankind.

It's always good to be somewhere with some history, maybe that's England, which has a long history.

History is a big word... History is not the sort of animal you can domesticate.

I didn't want to do a costume drama. It's a great thing to do, but I've done them, and I didn't want to do the same thing again. Of course, costume dramas can be from all different eras, but at the time, I just felt very sure that I didn't want to be boxed in as an English actress. I wanted to be an actress, rather than an English actress.

[The Fuhrer] is one of those lonely men of the ages on whom history is not tested, but who themselves are the makers of history.