Quotes About History

September and October of 2008 was the worst financial crisis in global history, including the Great Depression.

Americans believe with all their heart, the vast majority of them, and the vast majority of Floridians, that the United States of America is simply the single greatest nation in all of human history.

History is but the unrolled scroll of prophecy.

German history is full of serious mistakes pertaining to premature personnel decisions.

The profoundest facts in the earth's history prove that the oceans have always been oceans.

Punk rock seemed to make sense. I was listening to The Clash and I really loved their social messages and they have a great history of fighting racism.

I'd go down in history for being the most revealing nun ever!

To an American, land is solidity, goodness, and hope. American history is about land.

We can only know where we're going if we know where we've been.

History cannot be reduced to a set of statistics and probabilities.

The Fed is the greatest hedge fund in history.

Fidel Castro claimed that history would absolve him, but it can also condemn him.

Im something of a history buff. Its deliberate that a lot of my films have been period pieces.

The Bible-banned, burned, beloved-is more widely read and more frequently attacked than any other book in history.

I wanted to go into art history. Acting fell into my lap when a neighbor took pictures of me and showed them to an agent.

All the old history was written for the amusement of the ruling classes. The lower classes couldn't read, and their rulers didn't care about remembering what happened to them.

Pope Paul III was the greatest thief in the history of the church.

When we read history we find that in all ages people have thought, this is the dark age.

We have many times led Europe in the fight for freedom. It would be an ignoble end to our long history if we tamely accepted to perish by degrees.

It is with nations as it is with individuals. A book of history is a book of sermons.

Words are the weights which hold our history in place.

Ever since I was a kid I've always loved history. I think that kind of catapulted things, but I would say the two major factors were maybe 9/11 and the election of Barack Obama.

One only needs to read twentieth-century history to see that it has been the climax of human madness, if it's measured in terms of human violence inflicted on other humans.

Because Fascism is a lie, it is condemned to literary sterility. And when it is past, it will have no history, except the bloody history of murder.