Top 1200 Modern History Quotes & Sayings - Page 11

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities ... We pay for a single fighter with a half million bushels of wheat. We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people.

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

Libertarianism is rejected by the modern left - which preaches individualism but practices collectivism. Capitalism is rejected by the modern right-which preaches enterprise but practices protectionism.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

I remember the Soviet Union and when the Iron Curtain fell down in 1991. I was just 20 years old, and everybody had a dream to live in a modern democratic society, in a modern country. More than 15 years passed, and nothing changed. There's a saying I like very much: if you want a thing done well, do it by yourself.

It is an irony of medical history that even as Freud's later work would make him the progenitor of modern psychodynamic psychotherapy, which is generally premised on the idea that mental illness arises from unconscious psychological conflicts, his papers on cocaine make him one of the fathers of biological psychiatry, which is governed by the notion that mental distress is partly caused by a physical or chemical malfunction that can be treated with drugs.

Here and there, in some older houses, old faded daguerreotypes still hang on the walls... They seem to us to be very simple... compared with the artistic and skillful portraits made in later days... Here was a photograph that at one time had been the last word, a very modern portrait... Today it is just a part of cultural history. The small yellowed surface has acquired depth, an admonishing perspective. We hold in our hand a symbol of the structure and ideology of an epoch.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The problem of living in this modern world is the problem of finding room in it. The crowd principle is so universally at work through modern life that the geography of the world had been changed to conform to it. We live in crowds. We get our living in crowds. We are amused in herds.

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

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

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

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