Top 1200 Local History Quotes & Sayings - Page 8

The so-called lessons of history are for the most part the rationalizations of the victors. History is written by the survivors.

In the history of the collective as in the history of the individual, everything depends on the development of consciousness.

History may never have all the facts, but history always has the last word.

Social history might be defined negatively as the history of a people with the politics left out

United are special because of their history. They have so much history on a world level.

In this respect, the history of science, like the history of all civilization, has gone through cycles.

I do belong to the club which doesn't see a distinction between academic history and popular history.

It's down to schools to educate children about their history, especially black history.

Daddy loved our country, he loved our history. He was always talking about American history and telling us stories from American history, and loved our most treasured values of freedom, democracy, justice.

Magnitude may be compared to the power output in kilowatts of a [radio] broadcasting station; local intensity, on the Mercalli or similar scale, is then comparable to the signal strength noted on a receiver at a given locality. Intensity, like signal strength, will generally fall off with distance from the source; it will also depend on local conditions at the point of observation, and to some extent on the conditions along the path from source to that point.

Delusion about history is a serious matter; it can gravely affect the history that is waiting to be made.

The view of Jerusalem is the history of the world; it is more, it is the history of earth and of heaven.

The history of empires is the record of human misery; the history of the sciences is that of the greatness and happiness of mankind.

Truth can never be confined to time and culture; in history it is known, but it also reaches beyond history.

I'm not against knowing the history of white people in the U.S. - that's not the point. The point is that there's so much greater history. We don't know about Native Americans. Very basically, we don't know that much about African American history, except that they were enslaved. You only get bits and pieces.

The history of modern culture is a history of popular entertainments evolving into art.

It's always good to be somewhere with some history, maybe that's England, which has a long history.

Should we be rewriting history just to make people feel good? That's not history, that's psychiatry.

I think we're a band with a lot of history now so it's nice to come up with something that doesn't have any history at all.

When I was a kid, I loved history because history to me was a big story.

The history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward woman.

[The Fuhrer] is one of those lonely men of the ages on whom history is not tested, but who themselves are the makers of history.

History is a river that never ends. Today is history, and I am here at the fountainhead.

I'm a huge history buff. It was no hardship to read history textbooks for homework.

History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are.

You might say that economic history is the history of people learning to manage risk.

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

The history of the world is the history of a few men who had faith in themselves

I loved history because to me, history was like watching a movie.

In Afghanistan, we have had a history of very strong women, and we need to reclaim that history and talk about it.

I'm trying to make history. I've always put history above money.

History has to be rewritten because history is the selection of those threads of causes or antecedents that we are interested in.

You know, if you're an American and you're born at this time in history especially, you're lucky. We all are. We won the world history Powerball lottery...

Western man wrote "his" history as if it were the history of the entire human race.

Smallpox was the worst disease in history. It killed more people than all the wars in history.

A history of literature, unlike history as such, ought to list only victories, for its defeats are no victory for anyone.

History will record that the Citizens United decision is one of the worst in the history of our country.

Western history has been a history of deed done, actions performed and results achieved.

At the University of California at Berkeley, my interests broadened from military history to diplomatic history and other disciplines.

The history of Oregon is partially the history of a state that legislated not wanting black people around.

If good history is dispassionate history, it must naturally wait until the passions of the period subside.

Remember that history always repeats itself. Every great bubble in history has broken. There are no exceptions.

You want to be a part of something that is going to change history or make history or be bigger than yourself.

Look at the history of literature, and you find the history of beauty on the one hand and the IOUs on the other.

I long for the time when all human history is taught as one history, because it really is.

The history of liberty has largely been the history of the observance of procedural safeguards.

Social history might be defined negatively as the history of a people with the politics left out.

Human history is in truth nothing but the history of the slow, uncertain, and surprising fulfillment of the Promise.

We believe that the history of the world is but the history of His influence and that the center of the whole universe is the cross of Calvary.

What is history after all? History is facts which become lies in the end.

God is the Lord of human history and of the personal history of every member of His redeemed family.

The history of life on earth has been a history of interaction between living things and their surroundings.

When you have a novel set in a fictional history, you still should get your history right.

I can probably go down in history as the best backup point guard ever in NBA history.

History should not be left to the historians. Rather, be like Churchill. Make history, and then write it.

I'm a history buff, so I've been reading lots of books on Irish and American history.

Greece's history in the drachma was an up-and-down history, a roller coaster.

History is simply a piece of paper covered with print: the main thing is to make history, not to write it.

My mom was a history teacher when I was a kid, so I hated history out of rebellion.

Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time.