Quotes About History

If you want my views of history, there's something you should know. The three men I admire the most are Curly, Larry, and Mo.

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

The tattoo of the History is permanent; once a nation or a man is marked by this tattoo, erasing is impossible.

After they had accustomed themselves at Rome to the spectacles of the slaughter of animals, they proceeded to those of the slaughter of men, to the gladiators.

It took man thousands of years to put words down on paper, and his lawyers still wish he wouldn't.

The first ape who became a man thus committed treason against his own kind.

Memphis was almost like going to California. Beale Street was the black man's street.

Americas presidents tend to die young. Maybe it is in the nature of the men who reach such heights, or of the job once they attain it.

History is a myth that men agree to believe.

My ancestors are all crazy. My great-great-granddad, he was the last man to live in a cave in Nottingham.

Man creates what he calls history as a screen to conceal the workings of the apocalypse from himself.

If you go all the way back to the days just following creation, men lived nine hundred years or more.

A man hears what he wants to hear, and disregards the rest. I think that kind of thing is an abuse of history.

A scientist is no more a collector and classifier of facts than a historian is a man who complies and classifies a chronology of the dates of great battles and major discoveries.

History, if thoroughly comprehended, furnishes something of the experience which a man would acquire who should be a contemporary of all ages and a fellow citizen of all peoples.

Man is tied to the weight of his own past, and even by a great therapeutic labor little more can be accomplished than a shifting of the burden.

I'm gonna go down in history as being one of the best music men and businessmen in entertainment ... The people that I'm going to be greater than are Steven Spielberg, David Geffen and Clive Davis.

I think Barack Obama is an amazing man and president. His legacy is ongoing.

The whole value of history, of biography, is to increase my self-trust, by demonstrating what man can be and do.

The world of men show like a comedy without laughter: populations, interests, government, history; 't is all toy figures in a toyhouse.

If the whole of history is in one man, it is all to be explained from individual experience.

Those who have ruled human destinies, like planets, for thousands of years, were not handsome men.

More men have been defeated by reports than all the steel of all the swords in history.

I am the only man who can say he's been in Take That and at least two members of the Spice Girls.