Quotes About History

...They cannot escape their history any more than you yourself can lose your shadow.

Black folk, a lot of us lived as victims in a certain part of our history. And we had to really erase that tape. We're not victims. We are citizens.

I am not a chess historian - I myself am a piece of chess history, which no one can avoid. I will not write about myself, but I am sure that someone will write.

History is not merely what happened. It is what happened in the context of what might have happened.

Planning for the future without a sense of history is like planting cut flowers.

If you examine your history, you cannot help but repeat it! Law of Attraction says it is so: 'Whatever I am looking at, I am including in my vibration.'

A ruin is not just something that happened long ago to someone else; its history is that of us all, the transience of power, of ideas, of all human endeavors.

The thoughtful believer recalls God's faithfulness in the past when confronted by any new threat. Part of spiritual maturity is strong sense of one's own history.

If history is any indication, all truths will eventually turn out to be false.

In the closing years of the nineteenth century, African-American historians began to look at their people's history from their vantage point and their point of view.

History is at once freedom and necessity.

We are living through the most exciting, challenging and most critical time in human history. Never before has so much been possible; and never before has so much been at stake.

Artists are part of the information process... Visual history is important in providing a record of what is going on - levels of intention, levels of confidence, levels of aggression or control.

I believe for the first time in history, entrepreneurship is now a viable career.

We are about to change history, said Saphira. We're throwing ourselves off a cliff without knowing how deep the water below is. Ah, but what a glorious flight! (Eragon to Saphira)

Christians should be ready for a change because Jesus was the greatest changer in history.

There is more to Jewish history than Auschwitz.

The greatest concubines in history knew that everything revealed with nothing concealed is a bore.

American history is not something dead and over. It is always alive,always growing, always unfinished.

Every generation tailors history to its taste.

I excavate history. I look at lives buried under too much silence. Periods of time, like slavery, have to be revisited, reimagined, so we can move through them.

If every human rights atrocity is described as a Holocaust,[Adolf] Hitler's attempted obliteration of the Jewish people is diminished or de-recognised in our history.

If we learn anything from the history of economic development, it is that culture makes all the difference.

In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful.