Quotes About History

President Obama is in no danger of being judged by history as an eco-radical.

History does include aspects of directionality, and the present range of causes and phenomena does not exhaust the realm of past possibilities.

History has shown us all too often the consequences of dreaming poorly or not at all.

It was a fortunate moment in history that I happened to be in. There was a confluence of the internet and all this other stuff that I was able to capitalize on.

I didn't know how to run a business. I was a terrible gallerist, the worst in history, possibly.

If those people in power never made any mistakes, we'd be done for as a democracy. But people keep making mistakes. History is a series of mistakes.

If you don't know history, it is as if you were born yesterday.

In its Greek origins, historia meant inquiry, and from Thucydides onwards, the past has been studied to understand its connections with the present.

The history of creation is but a succession of battles between amateurs of genius-inspired heretics- and orthodox professionals.

The history of science has been one long series of violent brainstorms, as successive generations have come to terms with increasing levels of queerness in the universe.

The easiest way of change history is to become a historian.

Blest is that nation whose silent course of happiness furnishes nothing for history to say.

We cannot help living in history. We can only fail to be aware of it.

History is the distillation of rumour.

I am the first African-American chairman of any major conservation organization in history. That's a big step.

Congress can grant a waiver [for General James Mattis ] and has done that once in history.

I'm glad that Jewish kids are taught about the Holocaust and other stories in our history, but I wonder if there are ways that this information and narrative can be transmitted differently.

the anchor man thrown overboard has simply rooted us in history's repeating cycle

I had what can only be described as the worst voice in the history of music.

If history has a habit of repeating itself, doesn't someone have to stay behind to shout out a warning?

Even though I was never a Yankee fan until I put on the uniform, when you think about the deep history of this organization, you always knew what the Yankees represented.

I loved psychology and I loved history.

When I think of black television and history, I always use The Cosby Show as the bar.

President Bush will go down in history as the torture president. He has now defied a majority of Congress to allow the use of interrogation techniques that any reasonable observer would call torture.