Quotes About History

History is either a moral argument with lessons for the here-and-now, or it is merely an accumulation of pointless facts.

I am not so different in my history of abandonment from anyone else after all. We have all been split away from the earth, each other, ourselves.

The team which I led to the 1992 European Championship Finals is the only one in the history of the entire competition to have won every single one of its qualifying matches.

History is His story.

Of all the multitudes who throughout history have spoken for human dignity in times of great suffering and loss, no voice is more compelling than that of Anne Frank.

History is too often the refuge of the tidy-minded, making neat patterns when the dust has settled.

Assassination has never changed the history of the world.

I'm interested in the way in which the past affects the present and I think that if we understand a good deal more about history, we automatically understand a great more about contemporary life.

Somewhere, all the people we have loved and lost are still among us, in the house that we call history.

To write history one must be more than a man, since the author who holds the pen of this great justiciary must be free from all preoccupation of interest or vanity.

When you study history, you're really studying yourself. Every bit of history I've uncovered about my own family has some remnant in myself.

Without archives many stories of real people would be lost, and along with those stories, vital clues that allow us to reflect and interpret our lives today.

True, I have raped history, but it has produced some beautiful offspring.

Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years.

Truth is the only merit that gives dignity and worth to history.

I have no history but the length of my bones.

The sanctity of our battlefields, monuments, and veterans institutions is of utmost importance to preserve military history and pay respect to those who fought.

No country in history ever sent mothers of toddlers off to fight enemy soldiers until the United States did this in the Iraq war.

When I was a graduate student, the leading spirits at Harvard were interested in the history of ideas.

My history teacher was utterly terrifying, but her lessons were very inspiring. She got me interested in people and stories, which then led me to acting.

I think the rise of China is one of the great events of all economic and human history, and I think this will be overwhelmingly a positive thing for the region and the world.

Informed by our sad experience of history, we require nothing short of a foundation for lasting democracy.

When I arrived at Columbia, I gave up acting and became interested in all things French. French poetry, French history, French literature.

If you have autism in the family history, you still vaccinate. Delay it a bit, space them out.