Top 694 Historic Quotes & Sayings

If you want to make history, you have to do historic things

First, what is a revolution? Sometimes I'm inclined to believe that many of our people are using this word "revolution" loosely, without taking careful consideration [of] what this word actually means, and what its historic characteristics are. When you study the historic nature of revolutions, the motive of a revolution, the objective of a revolution, and the result of a revolution, and the methods used in a revolution, you may change words. You may devise another program. You may change your goal and you may change your mind.

Typically, an historic site is considered by the National Park Service to contain a single historical feature, while generally a National Historic Park extends beyond single properties or buildings.

The guys who walk on Mars are going to be historic.

Clearly we're in historic times here. We have - one of the tributaries of the Mississippi River is a river called the Merrimack. And the crest areas there - they're going to be a number of feet, 2, 3, 4, over what they were in '93 or '82. And on the Mississippi River itself, down below St. Louis, we're still projecting a couple of feet over that historic number. So the bottom line is there's a significant amount of water that's causing evacuations and challenges throughout that whole area.

The fact that Barack Hussein Obama became president is historic, to say the least. Actually, to become U.S. senator, that was historic, and then what he did later on - that's what inspired me to think about running for office.

Get it out of your historic head.

If anyone thinks that Jews can steal into the land of their fathers, he is deceiving either himself or others. Nowhere is the coming of Jews so promptly noted as in the historic home of the Jews, for the very reason that it is the historic home.

Obama's victory in November 2008 was a historic political accomplishment.

America has entered one of its periods of historic madness, but this is the worst I can remember.

Juventus is an historic club that only fights to win.

Since the white people collectively have practiced the worst form of hatred against Negroes in America and they know that they are guilty of it, now when The Honorable Elijah Muhammad comes along and begins to list the historic deed - the historic attitude, the historic behavior of the white man in this country toward the black people in this country, again, the white people are so guilty and they can't stop doing these things to make Mr. Muhammad appear to be wrong, so they hide their wrong by saying "he is teaching hatred."

Films are amazing. To be a part of a movie is the greatest. It's so historic and exciting.

Describing something as the 'Woodstock of...' has taken to mean a one-of-a-kind historic gathering.

San Siro is a historic stadium. It's nice, but it doesn't offer comfort.

Please join me in applauding the ESA - European Space Agency’s historic efforts with the Rosetta Mission and landing a spacecraft on rotating comet. It may seem like a work of fiction, but it is very real, very impressive, and will help us to further uncover the mysteries surrounding the formation of the solar system. They made a beautiful short film using an imaginary landscape to illustrate today’s historic feat.

A historic defeat cannot bow our heads forever.

I'm very curious to witness the historic transformation of Chinese women.

It has been an honour to defend the colours of a historic club like Deportivo.

The Paris Agreement is, in fact, a historic one because it marks the culmination of a phase of very long, drawn-out negotiations involving more than 190 countries. Why is it historic? Because it shows the way for our societies to change from the ground up, to create an economy that only depends on fossil fuels to a very slight degree.

Crosses and gallows - that deadly historic juxtaposition.

Judaism stands or falls with its belief in the historic actuality of the revelation at Sinai.

We did major work at the White House. But what people often don't understand is that when you do a historic restoration, you can't just do whatever you want. You work alongside the fine-arts commission and are obliged to create a replica of the past, as close as humanly possible. It's a historic institution, not a showhouse.

Historic in a good sense, not historic in a sense of 'so we dropped bombs on everyone.

I've never been very attached to genre labels and never set out intentionally to write historic fiction. Besides, what you consider historic depends on how far back your memory extends.

I think Steve Jobs is a historic figure. He's not only a historic figure in business, but really in America.

We`re in an historic drought, and that demands unprecedented action.

Thus, at long last, as a visible emblem of unity was daily growing in the new Palace of Justice then being erected in the Strand, half way between the historic site of Westminster the historic centre of the commercial capital of the world, there began to grow up, in the minds of reformers, the vision of a great and united Supreme Court of Justice, with uniform principles, uniform law, and uniform procedure.

For thousands of years, we Jews have been nourished and sustained by a yearning for our historic land. I, like many others, was raised with a deep conviction that the day would never come when we would have to relinquish parts of the land of our forefathers. I believed and to this day still believe in our people's eternal and historic right to this entire land.

The historic function of a Senator from Oregon is to drive all the other Senators mad.

The press heralded this as a major accomplishment. The rush from the press as soon as it was announced suggested a high level of coordination. Like lemmings in a staged dive off a cliff, 'historic' became the media's rallying cry. There is nothing historic about the deal. In fact, news reports from November 2012 noted that China expected, in 2012, that its carbon emissions would begin to decline after 2030 because of factory upgrades, efficiencies, etc.

You don't let a historic site rot.

It's very important that historic cities are allowed to reinvent their future.

The world has a truly historic pope in Francis.

Every championship, by definition, is historic.

I think to the extent Republicans depart from the historic commitment, we do so at our peril.

Ten Guinea Street is on a Historic England site.

Kraftwerk has become historic and is now exposed in museums.

I don't have a big thing about leaving my mark or being historic.

Historic justice has been done by killing Saddam.

I believe that in the historic and religious nature, marriage is between a man and a woman.

Whether every story that's there [in the Bible] is a historic truth ... Again, I'm not concerned.

My appearance qualifies me for historic characterizations, going back to the year one.

Deliberately, on every historic occasion, we piously fake events for the benefit of photographers, while the actual event often occurs in a different fashion; and we have the effrontery to call these artful dress rehearsals authentic historic documents.

Apostasy occurs when a church leaves its historic moorings, abandons its historic confessional position, and degenerates into a state where either essential Christian truths are blatantly denied or the denial of such truths is widely tolerated.

A lot of things in life only become historic in retrospect, but we knew that Live Aid was a historic day while it was happening. Two billion people around the world were watching it on television at the same time. It was a massive moment.

Everyone knows Chadwell Heath; it's historic.

The waking up of a people is historic. It shows the end of a cycle.

We believe that the European Union is facing a truly historic choice.

What does calling this medical care legislation "historic" mean? It means that previous administrations gave up the idea when it became clear that the voting public did not want government control of medical care. What is "historic" is that this will be the first administration to show that it doesn't care one bit what the public wants or doesn't want.

The release of 'Chinese Democracy' marks a historic moment in rock n' roll.

I love covering stories that have huge historic impacts.

American power worldwide is at its historic zenith.

I won't predict anything historic. But nothing is impossible.

It is, all in all, a historic error to believe that the master makes the school; the students make it!

We must stop spending money that we just don't have. Historic debt leads to historic tax increases, which stifle job growth.

Biblical Theology...is that part of Exegetical Theology which deals with the revelation of God in its historic continuity...Biblical Theology, rightly defined, is nothing else than the exhibition of the organic progress of supernatural revelation in its historic continuity and multiformity.

When we're dealing with historic buildings, we don't replicate, but we try to be subordinate and be deferential to them.

I have tried to emphasize to people that, hey, just like President Obama was a really good president, and the fact that he was black I think was historic and unprecedented, but he also claimed and owned his excellence, and that's why I'm saying, okay - I think it's really exciting and historic that I would be the first woman president, but I have a lot of work I want to do. And I hope that people will say, "Hey, she's getting it done." That's how I think about it.

I look upon India-U.S. nuclear cooperation as an act of historic reconciliation.