Top 1200 Local History Quotes & Sayings - Page 14

If you live on Nantucket, you can't avoid its history, and 'Moby Dick' is the way most of us get into Nantucket's history.

Men are not the causers of history. History itself, by a pressure of events, causes men to resort to particular actions.

In high school, I loved history. I also loved cosmography, algebra. Mexico is so rich in culture and history, and I have always enjoyed that.

Communists liked history very much. It just had to be the right history. They liked to remember it selectively.

I feel like the history between Israel and Palestine has a lot in common with the history between India and Pakistan.

History has always fascinated me. Coming from a family that has it's own regal history, I always like places that have a rich past.

The way we live history is not the way historians tell history. Our lives are messy and chaotic and bewildering.

History will find some of you but not all of you. Because you can't know which of you will make history, you must do your best to be ready.

The writing of histories - as Goethe once noted - is one way of getting rid of the weight of the past.... The writing of history liberates us from history.

None of our republics would be anything if we weren't all together; but we have to create our own history - history of United Yugoslavia, also in the future.

We look to the history of the time of framing and to the intervening history of interpretation. But the ultimate question must be, what do the words of the text mean in our time.

If you don't know your history, you don't have an idea how you channel things in your life. Knowing that history, I was able to fulfil my goals.

In sum, U.S. history is no more violent and oppressive than the history of England, Russia, Indonesia, or Burundi - but neither is it exceptionally less violent.

The new history is really ancient history newly discovered. Journalists are taking crash courses in the blood-drenched background of Serbs, Croats, Bosnians, North Ossetians, Armenians and Azerbaijanis.

My opinion is that politicians should be humble in the face of history. And whenever history is a matter of debate, it should be left in the hands of historians and experts.

There’s no point to living life unless you make history and the best way to make history is to help others.

If I make history, I don't need to blab about it. My first concern is not 'making history,' it's myself and becoming world champion. That's all I care about.

The power that comes from knowing the facts of history is dwarfed by the power that comes from being able to shape the stories about how that history is written and told.

We are not telling Tudor history; we are creating ' Wolf Hall ' from novels, which are already a rereading of Tudor history.

McNamara's plea was that he had no idea that Vietnam had a history of longing for self-determination, a history of resisting foreign invasion.

History remains an open horizon that cannot be dismissed through appeals to the end of history or end of ideology.

The history of PR is... a history of a battle for what is reality and how people will see and understand reality.

Big History studies the history of everything, offering a way of making sense of our world and our role within it.

Although this is a fictitious story the history is real. You don't want to re-write history but you certainly want to portray events and characters as realistically as you can.

There is no history worthy attention save that of free nations; the history of nations under the sway of despotism is no more than a collection of anecdotes.

It is important never to forget our history, but parts of our history are more appropriately displayed in museums, not on government property.

Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.

Presidents make history but are also a product of it. And there are two kinds: transforming and transactional. Reagan was a transforming president. He made history.

History is delusional. Not just an illusion, it's a delusion. America is this giant country, so it has these big delusions, and history is where delusions play out.

The history of the twentieth century - America's century! - has been pretty much a history of rising prices.

Classes struggle, some classes triumph, others are eliminated. Such is history; such is the history of civilization for thousands of years.

No single man makes history. History cannot be seen just as one cannot see grass growing.

Christ is the great central fact in the world's history. To Him everything looks forward or backward. All the lines of history converge upon Him.

God in His providence hasn't called us to watch history, but to shape history by praying in His Name.

Data will always bear the marks of its history. That is human history held in those data sets.

History teaches me that the dollar rules and whoever writes history writes it however they want.

The law is the witness and external deposit of our moral life. Its history is the history of the moral development of the race.

White men in North America are the beneficiaries of the single biggest affirmative action program in world history. It's called world history.

If Google decided at any point to publish my search history, or your search history, or anyone's search history, there's a litany of things they could idea police you about, and if it was published, you would be publicly shamed. Everyone would be publicly shamed. But we trust Google, and we trust the people that run that company.

White men in Europe and the US are the beneficiaries of the single greatest affirmative action program in the history of the world; it is called the history of the world.

That's one of the central problems of history, isn't it, sir? The question of subjective versus objective interpretation, the fact that we need to know the history of the historian in order to understand the version that is being put in front of us.

The complete encounter with the Lord will mark an end to history, but it will take place in history.

I was born in Rome on March 11, 1923. Because of my age, I've become a piece of this country's history, but it's also true that a certain strand of Italy's film history has passed though me.

The history of drawing is a history of 'realities'. Every age has its own conceptions, held to be true at that time, believed to be true for all times.

History as well as life itself is complicated -- neither life nor history is an enterprise for those who seek simplicity and consistency.

The whole history of my life, and in essence the whole history of the working class consists of this: that we have lived and fought under the leadership of Lenin and Stalin.

I'm interested in the history of the soul: the everyday life of the soul, the things that the big picture of history usually omits - or disdains.

It seems that writing chose me. I feel that because I know history, and I know the history of so many cultures; I have lived a large life.

The truth is that the history of Mexico is a history in the image of its geography: abrupt and tortuous. Each historical period is like a plateau surrounded by tall mountains and separated from the other plateaus by precipices and divides.

All you have learned from history is old ways of making mistakes. There is nothing that history can tell you about what we must do tomorrow. Only what we must not do.

One of the worst days in America's history saw some of the bravest acts in Americans' history. We'll always honor the heroes of 9/11. And here at this hallowed place, we pledge that we will never forget their sacrifice.

I don't think history will ever be a science because history will never be reduced to law-like behavior. People are to unpredictable.

If you get the access to see history happen, do you understand the history when it does happen? And the answer to that question is no, you dont.

Once I thought to write a history of the immigrants in America. Then I discovered that the immigrants were American history.

I was a terrible history student. They taught me history as if it were a visit to a wax museum or to the land of the dead. I was over twenty before I discovered that the past was neither quiet nor mute.

One of the problems in the Ukrainian crisis is that very few Westerners know their history, or if they know it, what they learn is what we call the Russian version of history.

I'm glad that we have a history at all and that we can talk about feminist history. But I do think that it doesn't really pay attention to the complexity and the nuance that is feminist thought.

We simply want gun legislation in this country that allows law-abiding citizens to still own guns or prevents people with a history of mental illness or a history of a criminal background from owning a firearm.

I do not think it is an exaggeration to say history is largely a history of inflation, usually inflations engineered by governments for the gain of governments.

Walter Benjamin has this notion of the angel of history and in a way that's paradoxical itself. We don't have angels in history anymore. We don't believe in these mythical creatures anymore.