Quotes About Influence

I'm interested in the way in which the past affects the present and I think that if we understand a good deal more about history, we automatically understand a great more about contemporary life.

Hip-hop's always reached out to kids. If you look at the last 10 big albums it might seem ironic. But when I look at the history of this music it's always had a lot of positivity.

They who live in history only seemed to walk the earth again.

A torch lighted in the forests of America set all Europe in conflagration.

Some of the most famous people in history never got a dinner!

The myth that the founding of American Republic was based on the philosophy of John Locke could only have been maintained, because the history of Leibniz's influence was suppressed.

History is the third parent.

From lies to forgeries the step is not so long, and I have written technical essays on the logic of forgeries and on the influence of forgeries on history.

Roger King is, without a doubt, the greatest salesman in the history of anything. And I don't ever limit him just to television. He could sell you anything.

Don't get small units caught in between the forces of history.

I have not much interest in anyone's personal history after the tenth year, not even my own. Whatever one was going to be was all prepared before that.

We are not merely passive pawns of historical forces; nor are we victims of the past. We can shape and direct history.

In a country like France, so ancient, their history is full of outstanding people, so they carry a heavy weight on their back. Who could write in French after Proust or Flaubert?

As soon as you set yourself up in the position of transferring paint from one place to another, your whole culture invades you. It tells you all about the history of art.

Presidents make history but are also a product of it. And there are two kinds: transforming and transactional. Reagan was a transforming president. He made history.

History isn't just what happened, but what happened to whom and why and what would have been different if the cast of characters had been different.

God in His providence hasn't called us to watch history, but to shape history by praying in His Name.

To teach that a comparatively few men are responsible for the greatest forward steps of mankind is the worst sort of nonsense.

We are not just studying human history, we are shaping it.

Maxwell's Equations have had a greater impact on human history than any ten presidents.

History does not merely touch on language, but takes place in it.

The United States may have retained more of the intellectual imprint of the British 18th century than Britain itself.

I'm not here to make money, I'm here to make history.

A man who catches History's eye is thereafter bound to a mistress from whom he will never escape.