Quotes About History

History never repeats itself; at best it sometimes rhymes.

Italy is only a geographical expression.

There's an old saying about those who forget history. I don't remember it, but it's good.

It is the clash of two different worlds that makes British-ness unique - we have an aristocratic, noble history, but it is always contrasted with something rebellious.

History doesn't always move in a straight line. Sometimes it zigs and zags.

In the history of extra-biblical study and research tools there has never before been a resource as useful as the Puritan Hard Drive.

What we need is not a history of selected races or nations, but the history of the world void of national bias, race hate, and religious prejudice.

History is not a catalogue but...a convincing version of events.

I think that [Donald] Trump is frankly a bigot. He has a racist history.

I truly believe that the great heroes that create the history of architecture are people who take risks and write to tell about it.

History that repeats itself turns to farce. Farce that repeats itself turns to history.

Autobiography is a wound where the blood of history does not dry.

K is for "Kenghis Khan"; He was a very nice person. History has no record of him. There is a moral in that, somewhere.

You know that every bead of sweat falling off your head, every weight you've pumped - the history of that is all in your eyes.

History and experience prove that foreign influence is one of the most baneful foes of republican government.

I love reading about history. Sometimes, I feel I was born in the wrong era. There was more creativity in the air when people were still discovering new worlds.

History will dictate what my legacy is. And 'maverick' is fine, because I am.

The history of my stupidity would fill many volumes.

I have not seen a film as powerful, surreal, and frightening in at least a decade unprecedented in the history of cinema.

All history must be mobilized if one would understand the present.

You can't fake this music. You might be a great singer or a great musician but, in the need, that's got nothing to do with it. It's how you connect to the songs and to the history behind them.

If you don't own Gold, you know neither history nor economics.

When I concentrate on a specific site or place for which I am going to design a building, I try to plumb its depths, its form, its history and its sensuous qualities.

I think the toughest thing for me to figure out, as an actor, was how to translate all those layers that are in there and that history that the writers have done such a great job at forming.