Quotes About History

It is Christian culture that has created Western man and the Western way of life.

Old ideas from an old man about an old vision of Europe.

Most people forget that Danny Biasone was the Wilbur Wright of basketball. Because he invented the 24-second clock, the game took off. Yet he was a man who never played the game.

It has been 20,000 years since man and dog formed their partnership.

They should have picked a different city to name after a man who reputedly never told a lie.

I don't want to go down in history as a man who allowed blood to be shed...

Mankind has been punished long and heavily for having created its gods; nothing but pain and persecution have been man's lot since gods began.

All men now allow that if any human power could have stemmed the avalanche of the French Revolution, it would have been the reforms of Turgot.

I'm not blaming men, I'm not blaming women. What's gone by has already gone by. It's history. It's done. There is no right or wrong in higher spirituality.

There should be a burnished tablet let into the ground on the spot where some courageous man first ate Stilton cheese, and survived.

Books are the building blocks of civilization and a people without books are a people without history, a people with no story older than the tales of the oldest man or woman.

Men conceal the past scenes of their lives.

History is replete with instances of men, who, by dying with courage and compassion on their lips converted the hearts of their violent opponents.

The idea that somehow people of African descent are not part of the same species as whites was accepted by European men of science in the early modern period.

Today's coastal development along with hurricane amnesia places modern man on a collision course with catastrophe if the lessons of history are ignored.

This is the man (Ronald Reagan) who proved that ignorance is no handicap to the presidency

Wise men say, and not without reason, that whosoever wished to foresee the future might consult the past.

I am the man of the century. No one will ever forget me.

History is bright and fiction dull with homely men who have charmed women.

I know ours is a world made by men for men, their dictatorship is so ancient it even extends to language.

The first farmer was the first man, and all historic nobility rests on possession and use of land.

We fancy men are individuals; so are pumpkins; but every pumpkin in the field goes through every point of pumpkin history.

Pines a thousand years old. Every year they must go farther for them: they recede, like beavers and Indians, before the white man.

Thousands of years and many civilizations have defined a marriage as the union between one man and one woman. With few exceptions, those civilizations that did not follow that perished.