Quotes About History

There is humor in the specter of the worst disaster in our nation's history. All I have to do is sweep away the debris of shock to find it.

There is no glory in war, yet from the blackness of its history, there emerge vivid colours of human character and courage. Those who risked their lives to help their friends.

One of the things that's important about family is the narrative history they create for themselves.

The history of art is the history of revivals.

Skepticism has never founded empires, established principals, or changed the world's heart. The great doers in history have always been people of faith.

My favorite literature to read is fairly dry history. I like the framework, and my imagination can do the rest.

We criticize, copy, patronize, idolize and insult but we never doubt that the U.S. has a unique position in the history of human hopes.

The only thing that interests me is history - reviewing the past and making something out of it.

Things spoken can be forgotten and forgiven, but the written word has the power to change the course of history, to alter our lives.

If he continues like this then I think Messi will be the best player in the history of football.

I am not caused by my history-my parents, my childhood and development. These are mirrors in which I may catch glimpses of my image.

Crim has baggage: expectation, history, responsibility.

I'm so very proud to be a part of Playmate history. It's such an honour to be one of 12 girls selected each year to represent Playboy all over the world!

History is now strictly organized, powerfully disciplined, but it possesses only a modest educational value and even less conscious social purpose.

Give children beauty, not the record of bloody slaughters and barbarous brawls, as they call history, or of the latitude and longitude of places nobody cares to visit, as they call geography.

The important thing to understand about American history, wrote Mr. Ibis, in his leather-bound journal, is that it is fictional, a charcoal-sketched simplicity for the children, or the easily bored.

I am very lucky and grateful to have this living link to a past era, the violin presumably having much more history to it than the later portion that I know.

If we go back in the history of different nations, violence and the use of force are part of their heritage. These are the traditions of mankind.

Only 3 to 5 percent of people are aware of being a part of history; the overwhelming majority think things will always be the way they are.

I enjoy doing different kinds of things. I just enjoy being not tied too much. I feel that I'm tied to myself as a kind of traditional musician and a singer, and the history that I have ties me down.

If citizens followed their leaders' example throughout history, the human race would have died out centuries ago.

The military operation in Lebanon was the most successful military operation in recent Israeli history. Many in Israel don't recognise that.

We are in a strange period of history in which a revolutionary has to be a patriot and a patriot has to be a revolutionary.

Texas mystique (has been) created by the chemistry of the frontier in the crucible of history and forged into an enduring state of heart and mind.