Quotes About History

When you arrive in Hiroshima you can look around and for 25 and perhaps 30 square miles you can see hardly a building. It gives you an empty feeling in the stomach to see such man-made devastation.

No man will ever be President of the United States who spells 'negro' with two gs.

Wine has been with civilized man from the beginning.

What we might have been dealing with here - with the building of the Pyramids - is an age that got lost. Man had to learn again what they previously had known.

The entire so-called history of the world is nothing but the creation of man through human labor.

The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice; their choice!

The real history, the one that counts and is not to be found in books, is precisely this one, the one made by simple men; and it is the only one that rules the world.

Actually, some of the things I experienced as a child still linger on; what the white man has done to the black people in the south!

This country was founded by a group of slave owners who told us that all men are created equal.

It is, I claim, nonsense to say that it does not matter which individual man acted as the nucleus for the change. It is precisely this that makes history unpredictable into the future.

Anybody can make history; only a great man can write it.

I really believe that to have a full impression of Jesus, both as Christ as a man, you must know about the world that gave shape to him - the world out of which he arose.

My fondest hope is that 'Roots' may start black, white, brown, red, yellow people digging back for their own roots. Man, that would make me feel 90 feet tall.

History is made by masses of people. One man, or ten men, don't start the earthquakes and don't stop them either. Only hero worshipers and ignorant historians think they do.

The history of the world is full of men who rose to leadership, by sheer force of self-confidence, bravery and tenacity.

From the beginning, it has been a no-no for a black man to touch a white woman.

For every language that becomes extinct, an image of man disappears.

I have been all men known to history, Wondering at the world and at time passing; I have seen evil, and the light blessing Innocent love under a spring sky.

This Nation was established by men who believed in God. ... You will see the evidence of this deep religious faith on every hand.

I do not know which makes a man more conservative - to know nothing but the present, or nothing but the past.

Giving men marriage tips is a little like offering Vikings a free booklet titled How Not to Pillage.

Had the employers of past generations all of them dealt fairly with their men there would have been no unions.

Monuments and archaeological pieces serve as testimonies of man's greatness and establish a dialogue between civilizations showing the extent to which human beings are linked.

All I can say is that we are mistaken to gouge such a deep rift in history that the things old men and old women know have become so useless as to be not worth passing on to grandchildren.