Quotes About History

Historical awareness is a kind of resurrection.

What we have been raised to think of as inevitable - division and hierarchy, monotheism and nation states - actually accounts for less than 10 percent of human history.

I just feel like history is very much alive and important and I don't, you know, I can't worry about whether people get it or not, per se.

I have the greater glory of God, the history is His story, that He is in charge and ultimately He knows what He's doing.

The most interesting place by far was Afghanistan. Just because it is a place that I cannot see myself living. The hardness of the people and the history of the country is just so completely intense.

To treat the history of Israel as I would treat the history of England or Russia or China; that is, an attempt at a scientific, historical approach.I am particularly fascinated with origins.

The modern history of economic theory is a tale of evasions of reality.

It remains an irrefragable law of history that contemporaries are denied a recognition of the early beginnings of the great movements which determine their times.

I've always felt privileged to cover the White House and to have that ringside seat to history

I know so little about any history. How little do I know even about the history of myself.

I do myself think that history is a set of skills rather than a narrative.

If you study the history and records of the world you must admit that the source of justice was the fear of injustice.

History is one of those marvelous and necessary illusions we have to deal with. It's one of the ways of dealing with our world with impossible generalities which we couldn't live without.

Writing history and biography for kids calls for special skills that can only be acquired through practice and that are different from those required for an adult audience.

Before I went to New Orleans, I was a little scared of New Orleans. I don't know why. I had only been there a few times. Something about it made me feel nervous, knowing a bit about the history.

If you look into the history of fashion, you'll discover that Gernreich was the leading name for years and the leading fashion designer both here in the United States and internationally.

Part of history is facts. The other part is what we find easier to believe.

In the history of the individual is always an account of his condition, and he knows himself to be a party to his present estate.

She had always been fond of history, and here [in Rome] was history in the stones of the street and the atoms of the sunshine.

I come from a town of great musicians: Washington, D.C. It's no joke, that history.

I don't look at myself as a historical icon, but the reality of it is, yeah, I am playing for history now.

Whites have been the most subsidized group in the history of the United States and maybe the history of the world, while Blacks were enslaved and were the assets of Whites.

I've been fortunate over my career to make a little history on the 16th hole at Augusta National.

I think history is collective memories. In writing, I'm using my own memory, and I'm using my collective memory.