Quotes About Historical figure

Jeanne d'Arc was frowned upon for her masculine attire.

His name was Kurt Waldheim.

Horace Walpole, the writer and politician, meanwhile, once saw Mademoiselle la Chevalière d'Éon, known in her day as a transvestite-diplomat-spy, teaching fencing to the Cosways' guests in the midst of a party.16,17

Ever since reading Jean Plaidy's 'Queen in Waiting,' I've felt deep admiration for Caroline of Ansbach.

Dr. Gordon S. Seagrave, the famous "Burma Surgeon.

There was little to lead one to suppose that Abraham Lincoln, nervously rambling the streets of Springfield that May morning, who scarcely had a national reputation, certainly nothing to equal any of the other three, who had served but a single term in Congress, twice lost bids for the Senate, and had no administrative experience whatsoever, would become the greatest historical figure of the nineteenth century.

Ch'in Shih-huang is the first emperor of China. He united seven separate kingdoms into a single nation. He built the Great Wall and was buried with the terra-cotta soldiers. The Chinese have mixed feelings about him. They're proud of the nation he created, but he was a maniacal tyrant.

U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt has been described as founder of the Bull Moose Party, the man who led his troops up San Juan Hill in the Spanish-American War, a big game hunter, family man, civic servant and a host of other things.

To be a writer was always my greatest aim. I remember writing a play about Guy Fawkes when I was 10. I suppose it's significant, at least to me, that my first work should be about a historical figure.

A supreme pragmatist, Kissinger was never interested in the art of the impossible - and nor, as a biographer, am I. That is why, having initially been invited to write his entire official biography, I eventually decided to devote myself to writing just one year in his life: 1973.

Eisenhower is my choice as the American of the 20th Century. Of all the men I've studied and written about, he is the brightest and the best.

I mean, Jesus was a white man too. He was a historical figure — that's a verifiable fact.

In the annals of history, few men have left a more positive imprint on the world than Pope John Paul II.

More than any other figure in our history [Tomas] Jefferson is responsible for the idea of American exceptionalism.

This Plantagenet king comes from the devil.

The story of Jesus is very fascinating. It still has such a tremendous power, even after 2,000 years! We don't really know if he existed as a historical figure.

name—Simón José Antonio de la Santísima Trinidad Bolívar y Palacios Ponte y Blanco—Bol

Dracula —" He paused. "Dracula—Vlad Tepes—is still alive.

In 1918, a police chief of Jerusalem was a Montefiore.

The only figure in history who endures is Jesus.

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

The play may actually have profited from having an unworthy hero: Custer, for all his early brilliance

If these the Times, then this must be the Man. [Andrew Marvell on Oliver Cromwell]

There is nobody that's ever going to fill Ted Kennedy's shoes, and that's a tall order for somebody in the family to try to live up to.