Quotes About History

Rivers run through our history and folklore, and link us as a people.... We are a nation rich in rivers.

Each day is a drive through history.

It's up to history to judge.

Once a president gets to the White House, the only audience that is left that really matters is history.

You know, the history of California art doesn't start until about 1961, and that's when these photographs start. I mean, we have no history out here.

One of the enduring lessons of history is that whenever an empire becomes insular to 'protect' itself, intellectual decline and cultural intolerance are sure to follow.

False history gets made all day, any day, the truth of the new is never on the news.

Much of the profession is empirically bankrupt because it is no longer taught economic history.

Young people are at risk of being disinherited from their community if that community lacks the courage and confidence to teach its history.

We know that government intervention in the free market, and Argentine history has shown this, absolutely ends in a boomerang.

May 4th is a particularly memorable day in American history because 84 years to the day before May 4, 1970, there was another demonstration at the Haymarket Square in Chicago.

One does not realize the historical sensation as a re-experiencing, but as an understanding that is closely related to the understanding of music, or rather of the world by means of music.

I've always been drawn to writing historical characters. The best stories are the ones you find in history.

If we look to the history of other nations, ancient or modern, we find no example of a growth so rapid, so gigantic, of a people so prosperous and happy.

Sanctions make a substantial contribution to power based on privation, and they have never hurt a single despot in the whole history of their use.

People come from all over the world to see this little place they've seen in movies and read about in history books: Soho.

American history is a quagmire, and the more one knows, the quaggier the mire gets.

It is not a sin to introduce a personal bias that can be recognized and discounted. The sin in historical composition is the organization of the story in such a way that bias cannot be recognized.

The beads around my neck [at Olympics in 1968] indicated that there were so many Blacks throughout the history of this country that have been maimed and killed by way of hangings.

History is more or less bunk.

The bungalow had more to do with how Americans live today than any other building that has gone remotely by the name of architecture in our history.

The most persistent sound which reverberates through man's history is the beating of war drums.

As history since Hiroshima shows, the best, perhaps the only, way to curb war is to deter it with such overwhelming force as to turn it from a struggle into suicide.

We should always be aware that what now lies in the past once lay in the future.