Quotes About History

Every drop of human blood contains a history book written in the language of our genes.

Once I thought to write a history of the immigrants in America. Then I discovered that the immigrants were American history.

We have come over a way that with tears has been watered, We have come, treading our path through the blood of the slaughtered.

Anxiety is the essential condition of intellectual and artistic creation and everything that is finest in human history.

History has remembered the kings and warriors, because they destroyed; art has remembered the people, because they created.

Railing against the past will not heal us. History has happened. It's over and done with. All we can do is to change its course by encouraging what we love instead of destroying what we don't.

Barcelona is a very old city in which you can feel the weight of history; it is haunted by history. You cannot walk around it without perceiving it.

One of the great liabilities of history is that all too many people fail to remain awake through great periods of social change.

Let's give the historians something to write about

There are no great men, just great circumstances, and how they handle those circumstances will determine the outcome of history.

Just heard Paul Scholes has retired, best I've ever played against by a mile. Most technically gifted player in english history. Legend.

When you see the films of certain young directors, you get the impression that film history begins for them around 1980.

George Orwell said, "Whoever controls the past controls the future," by which he meant that history is incredibly important in shaping the world view of the next generation of people.

The challenge of history is to recover the past and introduce it to the present.

We are not telling Tudor history; we are creating ' Wolf Hall ' from novels, which are already a rereading of Tudor history.

The contents of someone's bookcase are part of his history, like an ancestral portrait.

There can be no argument about the Lone Star State's significant contributions to American history, and we must remember the actions and the sacrifices of those who made Texas independence a reality.

The Establishment center... has led us into the stupidest and cruelest war in all history. That war is a moral and political disaster - a terrible cancer eating away at the soul of our nation.

I know that after my death a pile of rubbish will be heaped on my grave, but the wind of History will sooner or later sweep it away without mercy.

Visual surprise is natural in the Caribbean; it comes with the landscape, and faced with its beauty, the sigh of History dissolves.

Even the great bad guys in cinema history, they're likable.

Old books exert a strange fascination for me -- their smell, their feel, their history; wondering who might have owned them, how they lived, what they felt.

The falsification of history has done more to impede human development than any one thing known to mankind.

The history of my state of Oklahoma offers a great example of pursuing the American Dream. It was built and settled by pioneers moving West to seek better lives.