Quotes About History

There are several books out on punk history, but I haven't read any of them. I was there.

Each day is a little bit of history

History is nothing but a procession of false Absolutes, a series of temples raised to pretexts, a degradation of the mind before the Improbable.

History has never been dominated by majorities, but only by dedicated minorities who stand unconditionally on their faith.

Australia's treatment of her Aboriginal people will be the thing on which the world will judge Australia and Australians - Not just now, but in the greater perspective of history.

History is the ship carrying living memories to the future.

Today's headlines and history's judgment are rarely the same. If you are too attentive to the former, you will most certainly not do the hard work of securing the latter.

Every age cuts and pastes history to suit its own purposes; art always has an ax to grind.

And thus goes segregation which is the most far-reaching development in the history of the Negro since the enslavement of the race.

The history of our race, and each individual's experience, are sown thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill and that a lie told well is immortal.

History is an angel being blown backwards into the future

Land. If you understand nothing else about the history of Indians in North America, you need to understand that the question that really matters is the question of land.

There are no happy endings in history, only crisis points that pass.

Silence ensures that history repeats itself.

Jesus was the most active resister known to history. His was nonviolence par excellence.

The Bible begins gloriously with Paradise, the symbol of youth, and ends with the everlasting kingdom, with the holy city. The history of every man should be a Bible.

Everything was going my way. I was happily marching into the history books. Then it all just fell apart.

France is delighted at this new opportunity to show the world ... that when one has the will one can succeed in joining peoples who have been brought close by history.

The first rough draft of history.

I want to become a student. I want to read Chinese history and go on a dig.

History, in illuminating the past, illuminates the present, and in illuminating the present, illuminates the future.

Cleveland is my hometown, and the Indians have a narrow but rich history.

You who have read the history of nations, from Moses down to our last election, where have you ever seen one class looking after the interests of another?

Architecture wrote the history of the epochs and gave them their names.