Top 1200 Events In History Quotes & Sayings - Page 12

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

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

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

Happy nations have no history. History is the study of mankind's misfortune.

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.

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

One of the things important about history is to remember the true history.

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.

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

The history of mankind, the history of salvation, passes by way of the family.

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

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

Remember the lessons of history - if we don't learn from history, we're bound to repeat it.

Poets often are dealing with history and are thinking about the way history moves across us, and we move in it.

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

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

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

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

Black history is a series of missing chapters from British history. I'm trying to put those bits back in.

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

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

Drag racing has played a big role in In-N-Out's history, and it is also an important part of my family history.

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

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

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

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

The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles.

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

[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.

We can't let extremists on any side hijack or rewrite history because those who don't study history are doomed to repeat it.

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

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

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

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

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

If the only significant history of human thought were to be written, it would have to be the history of its successive regrets and its impotences.

Culture is simultaneously the fruit of a people's history and a determinant of history.

History teaches us that man learns nothing from history

An acoustic ecologist is a listener who is aware that sound is information. It's information because it's created by events, events produce sound, and that sound has all kinds of data, if you will, that conveys what event occurred, what the materials were, whether it was sudden, slow, loud, in what direction. And because it is information, we can think of it as a message. The acoustic ecologist studies information systems that are both intentional and sometimes wild.

To have a sense of history one must consider oneself a piece of history.

American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, especially of the history of Europe.

The history of our era is the nauseating and repulsive history of the crucifixion of the procreative body for the glorification ofthe spirit.

Religion has for too long been placed on the back burner of history, when it may be one of the driving forces in history.

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'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.

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.

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

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

Human history has become too much a matter of dogma taught by 'professionals' in ivory towers as though it's all fact. Actually, much of human history is up for grabs. The further back you go, the more that the history that's taught in the schools and universities begins to look like some kind of faerie story.

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

Further, the same Arguments which explode the Notion of Luck, may, on the other side, be useful in some Cases to establish a due comparison between Chance and Design: We may imagine Chance and Design to be, as it were, in Competition with each other, for the production of some sorts of Events, and may calculate what Probability there is, that those Events should be rather be owing to the one than to the other.

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

As an author of narrative history, I read a lot of history books.

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

The Bible is full of interest. It has noble poetry in it; and some clever fables; and some blood-drenched history; and some good morals; and a wealth of obscenity; and upwards of a thousand lies. This Bible is built mainly out of fragments of older Bibles that had their day and crumbled to ruin. So it noticeably lacks in originality, necessarily. Its three or four most imposing and impressive events all happened in earlier Bibles; there are only two new things in it: hell, for one, and that singular heaven I have told you about.

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

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.

History isn't like that. History unravels gently, like an old sweater. It has been patched and darned many times, reknitted to suit different people, shoved in a box under the sink of censorship to be cut up for the dusters of propaganda, yet it always - eventually - manages to spring back into its old familar shape. History has a habit of changing the people who think they are changing it. History always has a few tricks up its frayed sleeve. It's been around a long time.

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

History is not usually what has happened. History is what some people have thought to be significant.