Quotes About History

Neuer is one of the best goalkeepers in history.

It was the slave's continuing desire for recognition that was the motor which propelled history forward, not the idle complacency and unchanging self-identity of the master

History is the study of lies, anyway, because no witness ever recalls events with total accuracy, not even eyewitnesses.

EMBRACING THE EXISTING Japanese perspective on urban history and context

History is the only laboratory we have in which to test the consequences of thought.

Once water charges are in place they will only go up. This has been the history of all these charges

To build a theory of international relations on accidents of geography and history is dangerous.

I never thought my cotton gin would change history.

Live in the moment. Moments make history.

I would go back to the past and watch one of the early Beatles shows, because they were such a massive part of cultural history. As a younger person, you feel you missed out on that.

Never in the history of the world has there been a situation so bad that the government can't make it worse.

That is the supreme value of history. The study of it is the best guarantee against repeating it.

The writing of history reflects the interests, predilections, and even prejudices of a given generation.

I just want to make sure I'm contributing good films to movie history rather than being famous just to be famous.

Language is an archaeological vehicle... the language we speak is a whole palimpsest of human effort and history.

I can't understand why I flunked American history. When I was a kid there was so little of it.

to change our realities, we also have to change our myths. As history amply demonstrates, myths and realities go hand in hand.

The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public.

History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are.

Distorted history boasts of bellicose glory... and seduces the souls of boys to seek mystical bliss in bloodshed and in battles.

History is only the pattern of silken slippers descending the stairs to the thunder of hobnailed boots climbing upward from below.

I find it most intriguing to contemplate the fact that while men are considering what place to give Jesus Christ in history, He has already decided what place to give them in eternity.

First black president ever, and to be living while it happened - that's a good part of history. That's probably the biggest person I admire right now.

When women's true history shall have been written, her part in the upbuilding of this nation will astound the world.