Quotes About History

Right now, nobody legalized paper money. Where did that come from.

People in that crowd want to make poverty history, but NOT if they have to pay for it themselves

. . . if money is a science, then it is a dark science, darker than alchemy. It split away from Natural Philosophy millennia ago, and has gone on developing ever since, by its own rules.

Every period in history has its own peculiarities

The most successful people started from NOTHING... they didn't wait for the opportunity to knock but created the opportunity on their own... worked hard and made history.

Street League Skateboarding is the premier professional skateboarding league in the world, with the biggest prize money in history.

Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard.

How is it, one fine morning, Duchenne discovered a disease which probably existed in the time of Hippocrates.

Homer is new this morning, and perhaps nothing is as old as today's newspaper.

Morning brings back the heroic ages.

I dream of a morning when Filipinos can wake up from the centuries-long sleep that took them from their past and denied them their destiny as a people.

A people's relationship to their heritage is the same as the relationship of a child to its mother.

Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts And eloquence.

I was six months old at the time that I was taken, with my mother and father, from Sacramento, California, and placed in internment camps in the United States.

I learned more from my mother than from all the art historians and curators who have informed me about technical aspects of art history and art appreciation over the years.

My mother gave me one piece of advice that stuck with me. She said don't forget where you came from.

What is a nation without a mother tongue?

First ladies throughout our history have been expected to be adoring wives and perfect mothers.

As there were no black Founding Fathers, there were no founding mothers - a great pity, on both counts.

She's descended from a long line her mother listened to.

From the first, I regarded myself as under obligation to my country to preserve the faces of its historic men and mothers

Gutenberg's invention of printing is the greatest event-the mother of revolution

Mythology is the mother of religions, and grandmother of history.

The bravest battle that ever was fought; Shall I tell you where and when? On the maps of the world you will find it not; It was fought by the mothers of men.