Quotes About History

Arnold's place in history will be as the man who took golf from being a game for the few to a sport for the masses. He was the catalyst who made that happen.

I call that brilliant sequence of cultural peaks The Ascent of Man.

I describe a world with no exit, convinced that God accompanies man throughout his history.

In the parliament of the present every man represents a constituency of the past.

All men, even those we call savages, have been so tormented by the passion for strong drinks, that limited as their capacities were, they were yet able to manufacture them.

In fact, the 20th century I think was the most fascinating century and the whole of man civilization because so much happened.

The history of a man is in his character.

The great revolution in the history of man, past, present and future, is the revolution of those determined to be free.

If this capsule history of our progress teaches us anything, it is that man, in his quest for knowledge and progress, is determined and cannot be deterred.

Men killing other men really is an extraordinary phenomenon. Why does it happen? And how long has it gone on? And have the motives changed?

What an extraordinary episode in the economic progress of man that age was which came to an end in August, 1914!

Seasoned life of man preserved and stored up in books.

Ship of the line is the most honourable thing that man, as a gregarious animal, has ever produced.

... Amongst all the mechanical poison that this terrible nineteenth century has poured upon men, it has given us at any rate one antidote - the Daguerreotype. (1845)

I think five percent of all songs can be love songs, and another five percent can be miscellaneous or political, but the rest should just be about medieval feminists.

Completeness? Happiness? These words don't come close to describing my emotions. There truly is nothing I can say to capture what motherhood means to me, particularly given my medical history.

And me having kids, with my family history? My mom: mentally ill, shot and killed her last husband. My father: six ex-wives, four heart attacks. Both of my parents think alcohol is a food group.

I love watching old movies anyway - I grew up with my mom watching old movies and being immersed in the history of old Hollywood.

We are about to make motherhood a crime. No civilized government in the history of mankind has ever done this.

History records that the money changers have used every form of abuse, intrigue, deceit, and violent means possible to maintain their control over governments by controlling money and it's issuance.

Paper money is liable to be abused, has been, is, and forever will be abused, in every country in which it is permitted.

We are in a world of irredeemable paper money - a state of affairs unprecedented in history.

We have no obligation to make history. We have no obligation to make art. We have no obligation to make a statement. To make money is our only objective.

Libya has had to put up with too much from the Arabs for whom it has poured forth both blood and money.