Quotes About History

My most ardent desire is that my country will recapture its historic opportunity for a peaceful evolution and that Poland will prove to the world that even the most complex situations can be solved by a dialogue and not by force.

History is just littered with problems that were solved that were supposed to be impossible.

A movie like 'Selma' should be a relic in a time capsule from 1965, a clue to how well we heeded King's words and how far we have advanced. Instead, it is a reminder that the 'American problem' has yet to be solved.

There's almost no problem that can't be solved. That's important as a premise. History has proven it over and over again.

Sports - especially the NBA - function as a place where American society pretends to discuss and pretends to solve questions and historical agonies that can't possibly be solved within the realm of sports.

No problem in the history of humankind has ever gotten solved by evading it.

It states, History should be regarded as a means for understanding the past and solving the challenges of the future. It also suggests that this celebration of the end of slavery is an important and enriching part of the history and heritage of the United States.

I think seeing some of the past can be helpful, especially if you're into crime solving.

Some have called Afghanistan 'the graveyard of empires,' and it probably is the graveyard of empires.

Some people resented the fact I was trying to break a white man's record.

I was a history undergrad, and there's some things I could do in academics or business.

No idea is so antiquated that it was not once modern. No idea is so modern that it will not someday be antiquated.

My daughter will be reading about Pat Buchanan in a history book someday, and I am hanging out fist-bumping with him and joking with him.

Let this be our time in history so that someday we can tell our children and grandchildren that we were there, that we changed the course of history for the better.

History may someday record that the Arab awakening that began with the Arab revolt of 1916 against the Ottomans ended about a century later with a whimper.

When we look at history, we see history is made up of the heroes of their times. Yet, somehow we miss this when we put on the lens of the Scriptures.

I base my roots and history in old blues, old country and old bluegrass, and I like rock 'n' roll, and somehow it all came together, and that is what I am playing now.

One's heritage and roots is something to be proud of and cherished.

I don't understand if it was, like, Palestinians were here, then it was called Israel, and that's the problem, or they never had their land. Everyone just goes back and forth. So it seems like everyone can just have a piece... call the whole thing something else.

Ours was a history of well intentioned beginnings that end with a fight at every turn.

When She Needs a Reminder of Your Birthdate, Make Sure Not to Remind Her That She was Once a part Of Your Life

There was the amount of time you'd known someone and then there was the way you'd spent that time.

She could never be part of so much of his turbulent history, his youthful adventure, where life had been deeply felt.

Please take a long, hard look at your textbook, cause I'm history