Top 1200 Rewriting History Quotes & Sayings - Page 7

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

[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.

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

By the time you write the last page you have done half the book. The other half tends to get done in about five weeks; I do several drafts, very, very furiously rewriting. I literally do more or less nothing else and I stick with it and go through it and I begin to hate it.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

History teaches us that man learns nothing from history

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

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

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

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