Top 1200 Local History Quotes & Sayings - Page 9

Drag racing has played a big role in In-N-Out's history, and it is also an important part of my family history.

Remember the lessons of history - if we don't learn from history, we're bound to repeat it.

History is a big word... History is not the sort of animal you can domesticate.

One of the things important about history is to remember the true history.

History isn't what happened, history is just what historians tell us.

What I'm passionate about is History, and politics interest me only insofar as it is the cross-section of History in the present.

Human history has become too much a matter of dogma taught by 'professionals' in ivory towers as though it's all fact. Actually, much of human history is up for grabs. The further back you go, the more that the history that's taught in the schools and universities begins to look like some kind of faerie story.

The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles.

The history of missions is the history of answered prayer. It is the key to the whole mission problem. All human means are secondary.

Every civilization sees itself as the center of the world and writes its history as the central drama of human history.

So many people of color who made major contributions to American history have been trapped in the purgatory of history.

To have a sense of history one must consider oneself a piece of history.

Religion has for too long been placed on the back burner of history, when it may be one of the driving forces in history.

I was very interested in history, but I also thought, you know, history is not that interesting sometimes, and it can feel a bit medicinal.

I really feel sorry for kids who aren't interested in history - recent history, either, because it is this that made us what we are.

As an author of narrative history, I read a lot of history books.

I think any period in history can be adapted into interesting fiction, as long as you approach the actual history with respect.

Love frees us to embrace all of our history, the history in which all things are being made new.

History happens as soon as I pick up my coffee cup - it happened 30 seconds ago. It's history.

History is not usually what has happened. History is what some people have thought to be significant.

History isn't like that. History unravels gently, like an old sweater. It has been patched and darned many times, reknitted to suit different people, shoved in a box under the sink of censorship to be cut up for the dusters of propaganda, yet it always - eventually - manages to spring back into its old familar shape. History has a habit of changing the people who think they are changing it. History always has a few tricks up its frayed sleeve. It's been around a long time.

Whenever one pulls the trigger in order to rectify history's mistake, one lies. For history makes no mistakes, since it has no purpose.

Black history is part of American history, and it should be treated as such.

My history as a manager cannot be compared with Frank Rijkaard's history. He has zero trophies and I have a lot of them.

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

History devours, but at times it resurrects. Some lives must wait for history to catch up.

Black history is a series of missing chapters from British history. I'm trying to put those bits back in.

History teaches us that man learns nothing from history

Happy nations have no history. History is the study of mankind's misfortune.

We can't let extremists on any side hijack or rewrite history because those who don't study history are doomed to repeat it.

History is our guide, and without a knowledge of history, we are lost!

To learn the history of the banjo is to recover the actual history of America.

American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, especially of the history of Europe.

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

I'm a history person; I love history. But I am conditioned by the present.

She had always been fond of history, and here [in Rome] was history in the stones of the street and the atoms of the sunshine.

American history and the history of baseball are bound up together: our racial politics can be described and traced through it.

I think history has less of an impact on current times than the stories that we tell ourselves about that history [do].

Poets often are dealing with history and are thinking about the way history moves across us, and we move in it.

I can remember picking up weighty tomes on the history of science and the history of philosophy and reading those when I was small.

There are two histories : official history, lying, and then secret history, where you find the real causes of events.

Natural history is not equivalent to biology. Biology is the study of life. Natural history is the study of animals and plants-of organisms. Biology thus includes natural history, and much else besides.

Well, I'm a history buff, anyway. I love learning about different periods, especially in American history. I'm a fan.

I love things that have one foot in history - I was going to be a history professor before I sold out and went into TV.

The real mistake of women was to let the memoir, the collective, the history, space of producing history - to let it in the hands of men.

The history of the human race is the history of ordinary people who have overcome their fears and accomplished extraordinary things.

Reading history while you make history can teach you a lot.

If the only significant history of human thought were to be written, it would have to be the history of its successive regrets and its impotences.

The history of our era is the nauseating and repulsive history of the crucifixion of the procreative body for the glorification ofthe spirit.

Men make history, but they can never know the history they are making.

History can't be left to fend for itself. For when it comes to history and beliefs and values, we turn our future on the lathe of the past.

Art history is less explosive than the rest of history, so it sinks faster into the pulverized regions of time.

An observer will see the bizarre developments of behavior only in alien cultures, not his own. Nevertheless this is obviously a local and temporary bias. There is no reason to suppose that any one culture has seized upon an eternal sanity and will stand in history as a solitary solution of the human problem. Even the next generation knows better. Our only scientific course is to consider our own culture, so far as we are able, as one example among innumerable others of the variant configurations of human culture.

Cherishing Columbus is a characteristic of white history, not American history.

History is made and preserved by and for particular classes of people. A camera in some hands can preserve an alternate history.

Just like I am obsessed with the history of fashion, I love reading about the history of makeup.

Culture is simultaneously the fruit of a people's history and a determinant of history.

All history has been a history of class struggles between dominated classes at various stages of social development.

The history of mankind, the history of salvation, passes by way of the family.

A good history covers not only what was done, but the thought that went into the action. You can read the history of a country through its actions.