Quotes About History

Green sods are all their monument; and yet it tells A nobler history than pillared piles, Or the eternal pyramids.

Honest history is the weapon of freedom.

Energy deregulation will be the largest transfer of wealth in history.

History must speak for itself. A historian is content if he has been able to shed more light.

I went back in British history. Some 204 people died there after a mine collapsed in 1838. In 1866, 361 miners died in Britain. In an explosion in 1894, 290 people died there.

As long as there are history books, Neil Armstrong will be included in them, remembered for taking humankind's first small step on a world beyond our own.

History belongs to the intercessors

It is one of history's ironies that Communism, advertised as a classless society, tended to breed a privileged class of feudal proportions.

The history of a revolution is for us first of all a history of the forcible entrance of the masses into the realm of rulership over their own destiny.

History is a light that illuminates the past, and a key that unlocks the door to the future.

I became the first ever Euro-continental champion in WWF history. Well, besides D-Lo Brown, but he doesn't count.

You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.

An artist should know art history. Shock value only lasts so long.

Madness, mayhem, erotic vandalism, devastation of innumerable souls - while we scream and perish, History licks a finger and turns the page.

We must remember that one determined person can make a significant difference, and that a small group of determined people can change the course of history.

Tradition usually rests upon something which men did know; history is often the manufacture of the mere liar.

Be as proud of your race today as our as our fathers were in days of yore. We have beautiful history, and we shall create another in the future that will astonish the world.

The history of the Church of Rome is a constant leakage of members into such breakaway cults, which go on splitting.

History is a relay of revolutions.

We live in a world where amnesia is the most wished-for state. When did history become a bad word?

Art history is less explosive than the rest of history, so it sinks faster into the pulverized regions of time.

The awful wrongs and sufferings forced upon the innocent, helpless, faithful animal race form the blackest chapter in the whole world's history.

With a rumble and a roar, an iron curtain is descending on Russian history.

Who do you suppose invented computers? Speaking in terms relevant to you, in terms of earth history, let alone other worldly history, the computer, of course, came from Atlantis.