Quotes About History

I did some commercials and a couple of B movies, then a few pilots that didn't go anywhere. Eventually I did the pilot for Beverly Hills, 90210. The rest is history.

I knew always that Holland gave away the most Jews of all the countries. We are not the heroes that are in the history books.

Throughout history, every great warrior-the Greeks, the Samurais, the American Indians, the Mongolians, you name it-had long hair and would dress it before battle.

In reality, American girls are among the most outspoken, ambitious, successful girls in the history of the human race.

It will be one of the tragedies of Christian history if future historians record that at the height of the twentieth century the church was one of the greatest bulwarks of white supremacy.

The study of History is the best medicine for a sick mind.

The past is history, the future's a mystery.

People don't alter history any more than birds alter the sky, they just make brief patterns in it.

If our history has taught us anything, it is that action for change directed against the external conditions of our oppressions is not enough.

History is the necessary food of good and noble sentiments. It ought to give us at once humility and confidence in the face of greatness.

Historians relate not so much what is done as what they would have believed.

Hindsight's a wonderful thing. If we all had it there would be no history to write about.

Fire the committee. No great website in history has been conceived of by more than three people. Not one. This is a deal breaker.

I was a bike rider, a photographer and a history student, probably in that order. (On his early years)

I cannot stand no wack MC. So step back if you please, And don't test me, you're history.

And the revelation was a little like what saints receive on mountains - a further chapter in the history of the mystery.

Drinking wine and wearing trousers were nothing compared to reading the history of ideas.

The awful lesson of history is that we too often ignore people, just because they're foreigners or different from us.

I believe that Brother Fidel Castro is one of the greatest revolutionaries in the history of the struggle of human beings to attain their human rights.

Ideals are peaceful. History is violent.

We've got to teach history based not on what's in fashion, but what's important.

Heraldry is the fusion of fact and fancy, myth and manner, romance and reality. It is an exuberant union of family, art, and history.

History shows us that other highly developed forms of civilization have collapsed. Who knows whether the same fate does not await our own?

I'm not keen on history being tampered with... to any extent.