Top 1200 Making History Quotes & Sayings - Page 7

Another foundational truth is that God has a plan for history. History is providential, not accidental.

History had a slow pulse; man counted in years, history in generations

The conservative interpretation of American history says that wherever the word 'God' appears, it's obviously our God, it's obviously a Christian God; it's usually an evangelical God. The simplest point I'm making is: That is just absolutely not true.

History is a record of perpetual wars, but we are now trying to make new history.

The history of the past interests us only in so far as it illuminates the history of the present.

Christine O'Donnell is making a mockery of running for public office. She has no real history, no real success in any kind of business. And what that sends to my generation is, one day, you can just wake up and run for Senate, no matter how [much] lack of experience you have.

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

We as Black people have to tell our own stories. We have to document our history. When we allow someone else to document our history the history becomes twisted and we get written out. We get our noses blown off.

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

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

A community receives light from its history, it becomes aware of itself by remembrance of its history.

A lot of thought goes into making people laugh. Comedy is never easy. Making people cry is easier than making them laugh.

What happened last week doesn't matter. That's history. You have to make history every day.

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

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

The history of Napoleon now becomes, for 12 momentous years, the history of mankind.

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

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

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

I haven't seen any claim that Piraha lacks recursion, that is, that there are a finite number of sentences or sentence frames. If that's so, it would mean that the speakers of this language aren't making use of a capacity that they surely have, a normal situation; plenty of people throughout history would drown if they fall into water.

The big battle at the end of DW isn't drawn from history, but it's influenced by history, certainly.

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

Ever since I was four years old, I loved making people smile, making them think, making them feel good, feel some kind of emotion.

Real Madrid is like Manchester United or Liverpool or Bayern Munich. There is so much history, and you need to play and win against that history. It's difficult to play against them because you fight against everything - the history, the players - but because of that, the motivation is always so high.

I think of music as creating a space. I like to put things in that are comforting to me and are nostalgic. To me, that's what sampling does in songs; it's making deeper layers for people who know where it comes from, but also referencing another part of my history and my memory or a memory that I have.

The best way to prevent the homegrown-inspired attacks is literally positive engagement with Muslim communities. Making sure that any immigrant population that comes into America assimilates, becomes part of our culture. That has been our history; it has made us strong.

History is written by winners, so most history books are about people who win.

It may be that universal history is the history of the different intonations given a handful of metaphors.

History portrays everything as if it could not have come otherwise. History is on the side of what happened.

During a recent life development forum we offered a session on Christian practices. In one of the four weeks we introduced the practice of making the sign of the cross on ourselves. This gesture has become a very powerful experience for me. It is rich with meaning and history and is such a simple way to proclaim and pray my faith with my body.

If you look at my history, my history is that of forming bands rather than joining them.

My whole written history is one big lie! I mean, I can't even believe my history.

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

We have history as a guide, and history suggests that this brand of comprehensive reform ... is a recipe for failure.

The doctrine of preemption has a long and distinguished history in the history of American foreign policy.

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

The Royal Rumble is rich with history and one of the most popular events in WWE history.

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

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

The history of the Church of Christ from the days of the Apostles has been a history of spiritual movements.

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

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

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

I fell in love with movies as a kid. I had been making shorts and making TV and making commercials and it's such a difficult, weird process of trying to wing your first feature, especially if you're not going to go and just have a Kickstarter and do it on your own.

The pro-life movement is and has been led by women for decades. The history of the movement shows this, despite the current narrative about men 'controlling' or making laws about women's bodies.

The function of traditional history is to create a citizenry that looks to the top - the president, Congress, the Supreme Court - to make the important decisions. That's what traditional history is all about: the laws that were passed, the decisions made by the court. So much of history is built around "the great men." All of that is very anti-democratic.

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

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

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

The Republican Party's history is rich and chock full of emancipation and black history.

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

Dylan Thomas is now as much a case history as a chapter in the history of poetry.

A people without history Is not redeemed from time, for history is a pattern Of timeless moments.

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

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

In the USA, we learn "art history" as Western art history, and the history of Asian, or African art is a special case; we learn politics by examining our own government system, and consider other systems special cases, and the same is true of philosophy.

I'm making music that I love and I want to hear. At the same time, things like making money, making crazy money - you gotta find ways to reach to everybody but uplift everybody.

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

History does not repeat itself except in the minds of those who do not know history.

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