Quotes About Recognition

History is sinking and only a very few seem dimly aware that things are getting bad.

Barack Obama is the most famous living person in the history of the world.

Jason Witten will go down as one of the best tight ends in history.

It remains an irrefragable law of history that contemporaries are denied a recognition of the early beginnings of the great movements which determine their times.

I don't look at myself as a historical icon, but the reality of it is, yeah, I am playing for history now.

I think fame is something that you've achieved in your inner self that becomes known to others outside you. There are really very few famous people in history.

There's always an asterisk behind somebody's name who hasn't won the Super Bowl. There shouldn't be, but that's kind of the way history works.

The unexpressed aim of every politician is to influence events that history books will record his name - and spell it right.

I have high hopes of smashing my name into history so violently that it will take a legendary form even if all books are destroyed.

I think whatever I've done, I hope I've earned a footnote in India's long and tortuous history.

I do consider myself part of black history.

You don't realize 'till you get here what a moment in history you're a part of.

I've been thinking a lot about folks denying what has happened in history, or just not acknowledging it.

To articulate what is past does not mean to recognize "how it really was." It means to take control of a memory, as it flashes in a moment of danger.

If greatness was easy to attain, everyone's name would be in history books.

I remember being in a history lesson and saying to my teacher, 'How come you never talk about black scientists and inventors and pioneers?' And she looked at me and said, 'Because there aren't any.'

I'd rather be a non-All-Star playing in the Western Conference finals than an All-Star who's sitting at home in May.

Recognize, you ARE Home. Not, you are 'at home'... you ARE Home. Not, you have 'come home'... you ARE Home. You are that which IS Home.

How seldom we recognize the sound when the bolt of our fate slides home.

I am often late for planes. The airlines know me now, they call at home and ask, 'How much later will you be today?

A girl's got to do what she's got to do to make somebody pay her a compliment. If that means moaning 'til the cows come home, then so be it.

When I go home, everyone's very proud. I get recognized the most when I go back to my hometown, but it's in a really sweet way. They're just very proud and supportive.

If you get validation from outside, then suddenly everything you do at home is justified.

I grew up in a home environment where I wasn't getting esteem for anything I did.