Quotes About History

I'm mostly concentrating now on continuing to make history in Hip-Hop, making everybody proud of me, I'm not just a rapper now, I'm in history now.

Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world, and thus with the history of the human spirit.

[T]he historian must serve two masters, the past and the present.

I will be the first woman president of Mexico in history.

History is a symphony of echoes heard and unheard. It is a poem with events as verses.

We must come to understand our past, our history, in terms of the soil and water and forests and grasses that have made it what it is.

Great men are usually the products of their times and one of the men developed by these times takes rank with the greatest railroad leaders in history.

Some people make headlines while others make history.

The history of the meadow goes like this. No one owns it, no one ever will.

There is no more fascinating subject in which a person may become occupied than an examination into the history of his ancestry.

The only real struggle in the history of the world ... is between the vested interest and social justice.

History is moving pretty quickly these days, and the heroes and villains keep on changing parts.

God will recruit as necessary from the human cast in order to reorder human history.

History is the autobiography of a madman.

I am told that there is a proverbial phrase among the Inuit: 'a long time ago, in the future.' Let the children see our history, and maybe it will help to shape the future.

The deep sea is the largest museum on earth, it contains more history than all the museums on land combined, and yet we're only now penetrating it.

Liberals in blue states just think that they are on the right side of history, and anybody that disagrees with them has to be a troglodyte or a neanderthal.

I've always been intrigued by the way history works, the way we decide what is mentioned.

The frontier has gone, and with its going has closed the first period of American history.

Most events recorded in history are more remarkable than important, like eclipses of the sun and moon, by which all are attracted,but whose effects no one takes the trouble to calculate.

God's aim in human history is the creation of an inclusive community of loving persons, with himself included as its primary sustainer and most glorious inhabitant.

To trace the history of a river . . . is to trace the history of the soul, the history of the mind descending and arising in the body.

I'm not an artist. An artist makes an object. Me, it's not an object, I work in history, I'm a storyteller.

We just may be the most well-informed, yet least self-aware, people in history.