Top 1000 History Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

The concept of preserving history, collating full archives, making them as usable as possible so the public have access to them, I really feel that it allows the public an ability to engage with their own history.

If you are going to write, say, fantasy - stop reading fantasy. You've already read too much. Read other things; read westerns, read history, read anything that seems interesting, because if you only read fantasy and then you start to write fantasy, all you're going to do is recycle the same old stuff and move it around a bit.

Throughout history no one has suffered more than God. He has suffered because his own children fell away from him. Ever since the Fall, God has been working tirelessly for the restoration of mankind. People do not know this brokenhearted aspect of God.

If you want to study the social and political history of modern nations, study hell.

History is a tool used by politicians to justify their intentions.

History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul.

I was reading a book... 'the history of glue' - I couldn't put it down.

Never, ever forget history.

Our culture's obsession with vintage objects has rendered us unable to separate history from nostalgia. People want heart. They want a chaser of emotion with their aesthetics.

History is history. What is done is done.

It sure is a nice feeling to know that people will remember you after you're gone, that you'll manage to be a little bit of history.

I think documentaries are the greatest way to educate an entire generation that doesn't often look back to learn anything about the history that provided a safe haven for so many of us today.

I'm a closet nerd. I love to study history and visit museums.

History serves as a model not only of who and what we are to be, we learn what to champion and what to avoid.

I don't ever balk at being considered a Motown person, because Motown is the greatest musical event that ever happened in the history of music.

History is imperfect and biased, and it always, always has omissions. The most common omissions are the bits that the writer of that history took for granted that his readers would know.

I've already done enough to prove myself. Win or lose, I think I've done enough to cement my name in the history of this sport. So for me, it's more like I have to win just for an opportunity to get on the mic and say all that.

Their memory's like a train: you can see it getting smaller as it pulls away And the things you can't remember Tell the things you can't forget that History puts a saint in every dream.

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

What I'm concerned with is what I would call the missing history - the invisible imprint of our stay on Earth and in time.

The history of man is the history of crimes, and history can repeat. So information is a defence. Through this we can build, we must build, a defence against repetition.

My place in history will depend on what I can do for the people and not on what the people can do for me.

If you look at history, innovation doesn't come just from giving people incentives; it comes from creating environments where their ideas can connect.

We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

History has proven time and again that downturns are the best time to invest in new start-ups. You get good deals and find a better environment for start-ups to grow.

The Thames is liquid history.

Legend remains victorious in spite of history.

The contributions of African Americans, Native Americans, and immigrants throughout our nation's history are undeniable, but the tendency to overlook their gallant efforts is pervasive and persistent.

Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil to thee. And those will be thy best friends, not to whom thou hast done good, but who have done good to thee.

A Conservative is a fellow who is standing athwart history yelling 'Stop!'

Of all the inventions of humans, the computer is going to rank near or at the top as history unfolds and we look back. It is the most awesome tool that we have ever invented. I feel incredibly lucky to be at exactly the right place in Silicon Valley, at exactly the right time, historically, where this invention has taken form.

History does not merely touch on language, but takes place in it.

History passes the final judgment.

History, a distillation of rumour.

There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.

The Great Migration changed American history not just for the migrants but for all of us. It made possible American cultural milestones like the Harlem Renaissance, Chicago blues, and Motown, just to name a few.

When you think about archaeology, archaeology is the only field that allows us to tell the story of 99 percent of our history prior to 3,000 B.C. and writing.

I performed in high school for Black History Month at a talent show, but besides that I didn't have the resources to perform so I spent my time as a teenager writing music.

It is important for all of us to appreciate where we come from and how that history has really shaped us in ways that we might not understand.

So many times in the history of Mormon polygamy, the outside world thought it had the movement on the ropes only to see it flourish anew.

History is written by the victors.

No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history.

Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years.

And remember, where you have a concentration of power in a few hands, all too frequently men with the mentality of gangsters get control. History has proven that.

Man is not logical and his intellectual history is a record of mental reserves and compromises. He hangs on to what he can in his old beliefs even when he is compelled to surrender their logical basis.

History rarely repeats itself, but its echoes never go away.

Journalism is in fact history on the run.

When history looks back, I want people to know that the Nazis could not kill millions of people with impunity.

In history as in human life, regret does not bring back a lost moment and a thousand years will not recover something lost in a single hour.

No history can be a faithful mirror. If it were, it would be as long and as dull as life itself. It must be a selection, and, being a selection, must inevitably be biased.

Often the presence of mind and energy of a person remote from the spotlight decide the course of history for centuries to come.

Never before in human history has more information been available to more people. But at the same time, never before in human history has more bad information been available to more people.

Sometimes history takes things into its own hands.

I'm obsessed by the idea of making my mark on history. And Arsenal is my paradise.

You don't hate history, you hate the way it was taught to you in high school.

No people in the history of the world have ever been so misunderstood, so misjudged, and so cruelly maligned.

All of history misses out on the history of the soul. Human passions are so often not included in history.

Stonehenge was built possibly by the Minoans. It presents one of man's first attempts to order his view of the outside world.

History is just this froth of artifact production that has appeared in the last ten to fifteen thousand years. It spread across the planet very quickly. But that mind in man just goes back and back into the darkness.

My name, Solange, means 'Angel of the sun,' and I'm completely enamored of my African history. The culture is so expressive.