Quotes About Influence

I'm mostly concentrating now on continuing to make history in Hip-Hop, making everybody proud of me, I'm not just a rapper now, I'm in history now.

From the totalitarian point of view, history is something to be created rather than learned.

Great men are usually the products of their times and one of the men developed by these times takes rank with the greatest railroad leaders in history.

Some people make headlines while others make history.

If you want to get an idea across, wrap it up in a person.

Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total; of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.

You can't escape the influence of architectural history.

History and experience prove that foreign influence is one of the most baneful foes of republican government.

History will dictate what my legacy is. And 'maverick' is fine, because I am.

History is written by those who hang heroes.

Ideas shape the course of history.

The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social relations removes all barriers to coercion and manipulation by the powerful.

I am afraid that if you want to go down into history you'll have to do something for it.

Don't be shocked when your history book mentions me.

I never thought my cotton gin would change history.

I would go back to the past and watch one of the early Beatles shows, because they were such a massive part of cultural history. As a younger person, you feel you missed out on that.

Never in the history of the world has there been a situation so bad that the government can't make it worse.

History has never been dominated by majorities, but only by dedicated minorities who stand unconditionally on their faith.

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

You who have read the history of nations, from Moses down to our last election, where have you ever seen one class looking after the interests of another?

Architecture wrote the history of the epochs and gave them their names.

History is various and sinuous and no essential part of the human spirit is ever wholly absent from it.

I'm not part of the history, I am the history.

For words are magical formulae. They leave finger marks be hind on the brain, which in the twinkling of an eye become the footprints of history. One ought to watch one' s every word.