Top 1200 Local History Quotes & Sayings - Page 10

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

Government power must be dispersed. If government is to exercise power, better in the county than in the state, better in the state than in Washington. If I do not like what my local community does, be it in sewage disposal, or zoning, or schools, I can move to another local community, and though few may take this step, the mere possibility acts as a check. If I do not like what Washington imposes, I have few alternatives in this world of jealous nations.

I'd say the most important criteria is vision. What is your vision for the party? Do you have a vision to strengthen the grassroots and help them turn out people in their local communities? That's the real thing. The real question is not about one person. It's not about an individual. It's about millions of people working all over this country to reach out in their local communities. And the DNC chair has to help them do that and have a vision for that and have the energy for that.

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

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

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

The great force of history comes from the fact that we carry it within us, are unconsciously controlled by it in many ways, and history is literally present in all that we do.

Qatar does not have much history, it's a new emirate. So I couldn't draw on the history of the country; its history is really just being a desert. But I thought, the one thing I must learn about for this project is the Islamic faith. So I read about Islam and Islamic architecture, and the more I studied the more I realized where the best Islamic buildings were.

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

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

I knew nothing of American History because I didn't pay attention to American History in school. Because I did not see myself in American History in school.

We must never forget that Black History is American History. The achievements of African Americans have contributed to our nation's greatness.

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

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

Tony Blair has always said he will be judged by history. Now Alastair Campbell is history we await his judgment.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

A lot of my work, the subject is film and television itself, and history, and how that kind of coincides with larger cultural history and memory.

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

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

The history of mankind is the history of money losing value.

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

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.

History is full of really good stories. That's the main reason I got into this racket: I want to make the argument that history is interesting.

History repeats itself. That's one of the things wrong with history.

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

What I think people should realize is that programs like Social Security, programs like Medicare, programs like the Veterans Administration, programs like your local park and your local library - those are, if you like, socialist programs; they're run by [and] for the public, not to make money. I think in many ways we should expand that concept so that the American people can enjoy the same benefits that people all over the world are currently enjoying.

History takes time. History makes memory.

The history of persecution is a history of endeavors to cheat nature, to make water run up hill, to twist a rope of sand.

The decisions I made are done. And history will judge whether or not they were correct. There's no such thing as accurate short-term history.

History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth.

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.

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.

The most important history is the history we make today.

I don't like the idea of nationalism, but on the other hand, I do see that there is a difference between British art, German art and Chinese art. This is because of the history, because each country has different history and each country reads and teaches that history differently.

We must create a history of India in living terms. Up to the present that history, as written by the English, practically begins with Warren Hastings, and crams in certain unavoidable preliminaries, which cover a few thousands of years...The history of India has yet to be written for the first time. It has to be humanized, emotionalized, made the trumpet-voice and evangel of the race that inhabit India.

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.

The uniqueness of the United States in human history is the United States is the first global power in human history which emerged far away from Africa or Asia, which is the main land of human history.

The history of saints is mainly the history of insane people.

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

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

I don't have much history - I've got Rosie Perez, Jennifer Lopez, Rita Moreno. That's it. That's the history of Latin women in Hollywood, really.

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.

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.

That rewriting of literary history is most obvious in the case of The Yage Letters, where I was able to show that the true history inverts the official one.

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

Imagine it's 1981. You're an artist, in love with art, smitten with art history. You're also a woman, with almost no mentors to look to; art history just isn't that into you. Any woman approaching art history in the early eighties was attempting to enter an almost foreign country, a restricted and exclusionary domain that spoke a private language.