Top 1000 History Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

I wouldn't attach too much importance to these student riots. I remember when I was a student at the Sorbonne in Paris, I used to go out and riot occasionally.

It is unfortunate that so much of the history of Africa has been written by conquerors, foreigners, missionaries and adventurers. The Egyptians left the best record of their history written by local writers.

Everybody needs history but the people who need it most are poor folks - people without resources or options.

My lifestyle is a consequence of my wounds. I'm the son of my history.

As history unfolds, as cultures evolve, of course the intelligences which they value change.

In fact history does not belong to us; but we belong to it.

History does not record in its annals any lasting domination exercised by one people over another, of different race, of diverse usages and customs, of opposite and divergent ideals. One of the two had to yield and succumb.

We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's dam is the history we make today.

OUR history begins before we are born. We represent the hereditary influences of our race, and our ancestors virtually live in us.

If you read enough biography and history, you learn how people have dealt successfully or unsuccessfully with similar situations or patterns in the past. It doesn't give you a template of answers, but it does help you refine the questions you have to ask yourself.

We peruse one ideal, that of bringing people together in peace, irrespective of race, religion and political convictions, for the benefit of mankind.

If we look to the history of other nations, ancient or modern, we find no example of a growth so rapid, so gigantic, of a people so prosperous and happy.

I feel like I'm too busy writing history to read it.

We want to be proud when we look back on our history when we grow old.

In Portugal, my sculpture 'She Changes' refers to the town's fishing history, to the era of seafaring trade and discovery. The contemporary site is industrial, surrounded by red and white striped smokestacks, which is mirrored in the pattern of the sculpture.

I'm the only person of distinction who has ever had a depression named for him.

The illusion is that most of my work is simply about past events: a point in history and nothing else.

History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.

The 21st century is going to be the American century. Because we lead not only by the example of our power, but by the power of our example. That is the history of the journey of America.

It's never happened in history that every region in the world could affect every other region simultaneously. The Roman empire and the Chinese empire didn't know much about each other and had no means of interacting. Now we have every continent able to reach every other.

If the Philippines must remain under the control of Spain, they will necessarily have to be transformed in a political sense, for the course of their history and the needs of their inhabitants so require.

We did this together. We, as a team, made history tonight.

It is remarkable how closely the history of the apple tree is connected with that of man.

The Marine Corps is the Navy's police force and as long as I am President that is what it will remain. They have a propaganda machine that is almost equal to Stalin's.

Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.

Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph.

History repeats itself, but the special call of an art which has passed away is never reproduced. It is as utterly gone out of the world as the song of a destroyed wild bird.

Russia is tough. The history, the land, the people - brutal.

It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise.

Over the objections, where they sound like squealing pigs, over the objections of Romney and all his allies, we passed some of the toughest Wall Street regulations in history, turning Wall Street back into the allocator of capital it always has been and no longer a casino. And they want to repeal it.

Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.

Here's what I believe, I think the FBI is the premier law enforcement agency in the history of the world but i think there was some bad apples over there.

I'm a sponge for historical images of black people and black history on film.

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

I think the FBI is the premier law enforcement agency in all of human history.

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

History shows that there are no invincible armies.

I came, I saw, I conquered.

I'm proud to partner with organizations that place an emphasis on and share my interest in giving back to the community. RBC has a rich history of doing this through their sponsorship of golf and the extensive ambassadorial program they have in place.

Liverpool is a club with a big, big, big history, and all the clubs in the world have a big history if the present is not too successful. If you have never had success, then nobody knows how it is, but in Liverpool, everybody knows how it was.

This was a tragic event in human history, but by paying tribute to the Armenian community we ensure the lessons of the Armenian genocide are properly understood and acknowledged.

History is the interpretation of the significance that the past has for us.

Clarence Darrow, America's best-known trial lawyer, was also one of American history's most skilled orators.

History will decide if I'm a villain or a hero.

There is nothing new in the world except the history you do not know.

The Secret Doctrine is the common property of the countless millions of men born under various climates, in times with which History refuses to deal, and to which esoteric teachings assign dates incompatible with the theories of Geology and Anthropology.

My only advice is, follow your dream and do whatever you like to do the most. I chose journalism because I wanted to be in the places where history was being made.

In a typical history book, black Americans are mentioned in the context of slavery or civil rights. There's so much more to the story.

I feel very honoured to be joining the Ferrari family and becoming a part of the most prestigious team in the history of Formula One.

Most foreign policies that history has marked highly, in whatever country, have been originated by leaders who were opposed by experts.

Solidarity was the movement that turned the direction of history, I think.

History has proven that each generation of Howard graduates will forge the way forward for our country and our world.

We have need of history in its entirety, not to fall back into it, but to see if we can escape from it.

A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind.

Neither current events nor history show that the majority rule, or ever did rule.

The invention of the printing press was one of the most important events in human history.

It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.

After pop art, graffiti is probably the biggest art movement in recent history to have such an impact on culture.

I have to bring to your notice a terrifying reality: with the development of nuclear weapons Man has acquired, for the first time in history, the technical means to destroy the whole of civilization in a single act.

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