Top 1200 Events In History Quotes & Sayings - Page 13

The history of my life is the history of the struggle between an overwhelming urge to write and a combination of circumstances bent on keeping me from it.

My favorite thing is talking to people about history - that's what I like doing. The sort of history I do isn't just for professional historians.

History happens as soon as I pick up my coffee cup - it happened 30 seconds ago. It's history.

Whenever one pulls the trigger in order to rectify history's mistake, one lies. For history makes no mistakes, since it has no purpose.

Natural history is not equivalent to biology. Biology is the study of life. Natural history is the study of animals and plants-of organisms. Biology thus includes natural history, and much else besides.

I think history has less of an impact on current times than the stories that we tell ourselves about that history [do].

The history of agriculture is the history of humans breeding seeds and animals to produce traits we want in our crops and livestock.

Well, I'm a history buff, anyway. I love learning about different periods, especially in American history. I'm a fan.

Nixon's full term was one of the most successful in U.S. history, which is why he was re-elected by the largest plurality in the country's history.

Because Fascism is a lie, it is condemned to literary sterility. And when it is past, it will have no history, except the bloody history of murder.

History shows that nations are more fragile than their citizens think. No nation in history has survived the ravages of time.

Love frees us to embrace all of our history, the history in which all things are being made new.

Through the years, Madam Walker has certainly become a staple of anything that has to do with black history, women's history and entrepreneurship.

[Read] anything but history,.. for history must be false.

Ted Kennedy will go down in history as one of the giants of the U.S. Senate and one the most accomplished legislators in American history.

A good history covers not only what was done, but the thought that went into the action. You can read the history of a country through its actions.

When we look at history, we see history is made up of the heroes of their times. Yet, somehow we miss this when we put on the lens of the Scriptures.

What's so interesting is taking kind of all these horror tropes and really finding black history and American history to layer on top of it.

Houses aren't refuges from history. They are where history ends up.

I was very interested in history, but I also thought, you know, history is not that interesting sometimes, and it can feel a bit medicinal.

I cannot understand why some people try to write a history of photography that is separated from the history of modern art.

History takes time. History makes memory.

American history and the history of baseball are bound up together: our racial politics can be described and traced through it.

I think any period in history can be adapted into interesting fiction, as long as you approach the actual history with respect.

The history of missions is the history of answered prayer. It is the key to the whole mission problem. All human means are secondary.

History can't be left to fend for itself. For when it comes to history and beliefs and values, we turn our future on the lathe of the past.

History is wonderful. We have so much we can learn if we would quit making ideology out of history, and just deal with what happened.

So many people of color who made major contributions to American history have been trapped in the purgatory of history.

All history has been a history of class struggles between dominated classes at various stages of social development.

I want to put my name in history. I love history.

Faithfulness to the truth of history involves far more than a research, however patient and scrupulous, into special facts. Such facts may be detailed with the most minute exactness, and yet the narrative, taken as a whole, may be unmeaning or untrue. The narrator must seek to imbue himself with the life and spirit of the time. He must study events in their bearings near and remote; in the character, habits, and manners of those who took part in them. He must himself be, as it were, a sharer or a spectator of the action he describes.

Only the history of free peoples is worth our attention; the history of men under a despotism is merely a collection of anecdotes.

The 1950s and 1960s had been a period of enormous growth, the highest in American history, maybe in economic history.

Men need history; it helps them to have an idea of who they are. But history, like sanctity, can reside in the heart; it is enough that there is something there.

We shall not understand the history of men and other times unless we ourselves are alive to the requirements which that history satisfied.

I love history, so I do a lot of movies about history.

Money, titles, belts - you're not going to take with you when you die. History stays forever. That's why I decided to go for history.

I was a history major in school. I review the past a lot and think about music history and how culture unfolds.

We study history in order to intervene in the course of history.

The history of a revolution is for us first of all a history of the forcible entrance of the masses into the realm of rulership over their own destiny.

The history of the United States is a history of settler colonialism.

The history of ideas is the history of the grudges of solitary men.

The history of an art is the history of masterwork, not of failures, or mediocrity.

Art history is less explosive than the rest of history, so it sinks faster into the pulverized regions of time.

I really feel sorry for kids who aren't interested in history - recent history, either, because it is this that made us what we are.

Every civilization sees itself as the center of the world and writes its history as the central drama of human history.

I have not always been wrong. History will bear me out, particularly as I shall write that history myself.

I love history. It was the only thing I did well at in school. I'm not ashamed to admit that I was not a good student but I was great at history.

History repeats itself, and that's one of the things that's wrong with history.

I can remember picking up weighty tomes on the history of science and the history of philosophy and reading those when I was small.

The history of the Franks becomes, therefore, the history of the Netherlands.

Myth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how reliable that is.

When you go back and look at American history, it's not terribly different from Canadian history. If you weren't self-reliant on the prairie, you wouldn't survive.

I think if we don't understand history, if we don't keep referring back to it, we become complacent. And complacency, as we all know, it leads to repeating history.

History is so deep, especially black history, so I have a lot to learn.

She had always been fond of history, and here [in Rome] was history in the stones of the street and the atoms of the sunshine.

History is made and preserved by and for particular classes of people. A camera in some hands can preserve an alternate history.

That's history. I say history because it happened in the past.

I have a bigger problem at food events when I turn over a wine glass and people insist on pouring me a glass of wine. I have a bigger problem with drunk wine representatives, drunk wine salesmen at food events who keep trying to push a glass in my hand.

The most important history is the history we make today.