Quotes About History

an entrepreneur from a small North Carolina town once known as Shoe Heel. Yet Malcom McLean, otherwise known as "Idea-a-Minute" McLean, is one of the most consequential figures in the history of transportation.

No new car company had been started in the United States since 1925.

The lithium-ion battery was first invented in an Exxon laboratory in the mid-1970s, during a time when it was thought that the world would run out of oil and Exxon would need to find another way to stay in the mobility business.

By the end of that drilling program, they had the proof. Devon's engineers had successfully yoked together the two technologies—slick water fracturing with horizontal drilling—to liberate natural gas imprisoned in the shale. "The rest was history," Nichols would later say.

"Somebody asked me if I knew you. A million memories flash through my mind, but I just smiled and said I used to."

Mommy, do you know what the Italian Renaissance is? It's naked people.

Today is a new day. Don't let your history interfere with your destiny. It doesn't matter what you did or where you were. It matters where you are and what you're doing. Get out there. Sing the song in your heart and never let anyone shut you up.

This is almost the most famous story The last samurai – Samurai story – in Japan.

Poetry is the elder sister of history, the mother of language, the ancestress of civilization.

Two famous happy warriors – Reagan and his political soulmate, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher – knew they were fighting their own ideological and external wars. But they did so with the sunny dispositions and positive outlooks of those who knew they were on the right side of history.

Now that it's officially summer, here's my advice to parents who want to continue teaching their kids during the next two months and learn something themselves: visit Civil War battlefields.

"Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, but today is a gift. That's why we call it the present."

The main thing history can teach us is that human actions have consequences, and that certain choices, once made, cannot be undone.

For all the cruelty and hardship of our world, we are not mere prisoners of fate. Our actions matter, and can bend history in the direction of justice.

History, that is to be written tomorrow ...to be read by our children ... to serve as their guide is written in our actions today. A greater call to responsibility I have not known.

In all ages of the world, priests have been enemies of liberty.

Long before the advent of what scientists and scholars consider to be the beginning of human civilization, there was an age undreamed of ... the age of Atlantis.

I came into the world very young, in an age that was very old.

My view is that climate changes have happened in the last 80 years, that is, the world has got a little bit warmer, although not as warm as it has been in Medieval times, or the Bronze Age.

The Victorian era is the sexiest age for me, but I also like a woman in a pair of jeans.

Bowed by the weight of centuries he leans upon his hoe and gazes on the ground, the emptiness of ages in his face, and on his back the burden of the world.

Every age that has historical status is governed by aristocracies.

The Crusades - the most signal and most durable monument of human folly that has yet appeared in any age or nation.

I remember being a student and I would go every Friday to the Louvre and stay for ages, just walking around.