Quotes About History

On the evening of December 25, General Washington in a most severe season crossed the Delaware with a part of his army, then reduced to less than 2000 men in the whole.

It's fascinating to think that as soon as man came into existence, he started painting.

That's the one thing I have over any twenty-one-year-old: a proud history of accumulated neuroses. That's the game in which I'm da man.

The advertising world had space men in it before spacemen existed.

Love which is only an episode in the life of men, is the entire history of the life of women.

If you look at the whole life of the planet, we - you know, Man - has only been around for a few blinks of an eye. So if the infection wipes us all out, that is a return to normality.

Fifty years ago, 100 white men chasing one black man across a field was called the Ku Klux Klan. Today it's called the PGA Tour.

We have more to learn today from the spectacle of a great man at a great moment than from any number of monographs on ancient wage levels.

Do you think we care about the feelings of Native Americans when we celebrate Columbus Day? That's the day that the white man discovered a land where Indians had been living for a few thousand years.

If ancient tales say true, nor wrong these holy men.

Books are the building blocks of civilization, for without the written word, a man knows nothing beyond what occurs during his own brief years and, perhaps, in a few tales his parents tell him.

Love is the history of a woman's life; it is an episode in man's. [Fr., L'amour est l'histoire de la vie des femmes; c'est un episode dans celle des hommes.]

I'm the most recognized and loved man that ever lived cuz there weren't no satellites when Jesus and Moses were around, so people far away in the villages didn't know about them.

France always has plenty men of talent, but it is always deficient in men of action and high character.

Men ran after and ate horses for four hundred thousand years. The outcome is more than a love of horse flesh; it is a runner's body.

With an absurd oversimplification, the "invention" of calculus [method in mathematics] is sometimes ascribed to two men, Newton and Leibniz.

As in Athens, the right to participate was restricted to men, just as it was also in all later democracies and republics until the twentieth century.

Far from the truth lay the antique assumption that man had fathered the weapon. The weapon, instead, had fathered man.

I'm sure that you could go back and make a graph showing that all the killings of black males increased in times of economic difficulty. As a matter of fact, a black man was lynched last year.

Man's most intelligent age may have gotten lost in history.

The superior man acquaints himself with many sayings of antiquity and many deeds of the past, in order to strengthen his character thereby.

When I heard that Hitler had problems with flatulence, it's funny. What - does that make him a funny man? No. It means he had funny moments when his rear end was speaking louder than his mouth.

However the Southern man may have been master of the negro, there were compensatory processes whereby certain negroes were masters of their masters' children.

It seems to me nothing man has done or built on this land is an improvement over what was here before.