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Quotes About History

That something that really concerns me because I have good reason to believe and be hopeful, rather, this was the best posture of any Republican in history towards LGBTQ issues.
~ Margaret Hoover
We've witnessed history in the making.
~ Maria Shriver
Everybody should be able to choose according to his own values and history, within a European civilization that we all belong to.
~ Marine Le Pen
Where there is no history of struggle after an uprising, the living memory dies.
~ Vijay Prashad
I have been always fascinated and seduced by history, which I think is very close, very close to literature.
~ Mario Vargas Llosa
Well named, Quotology contains everything you always wanted to know about quotations, quoters, quotees, quotation books, 'quoox' (quotations out of context), and their fascinating history.
~ Marjorie Garber
I'm the type that thinks if you don't learn from history, you're doomed to repeat it.
~ Mark Cuban
I don't have space to enter into the examples or the history of this, so I'm left with having to make the bold statement that culture is extinct.
~ Vivienne Westwood
Democracy is but an experiment in the long history of the world.
~ Mark McKinnon
I think Hillary Clinton - first of all, it's a great victory, acknowledge it. She has made history.
~ Mark Shields
History may not repeat, but it often rhymes.
~ Mark Twain
We should consider the histories of Christ three manner of ways; first, as a history of acts or legends; second, as a gift or a present; thirdly, as an example, which we should believe and follow.
~ Martin Luther
I appeal: Learn with me the lessons of history and of grace, so my children will not be afraid to say the word 'AIDS' when I am gone. Then, their children and yours may not need to whisper it at all.
~ Mary Fisher
I do consider myself part of black history.
~ Mary J. Blige
... in America ... children are instructed in the virtues of the system they live under, as though history had achieved a happy ending in American civics.
~ Mary McCarthy
Whenever in history, equality appeared on the agenda, it was exported somewhere else, like an undesirable.
~ Mary McCarthy
History has been conceived--and with high justification in the records--as the human struggle for civilization against barbarism in different ages and places, from the beginning of human societies.
~ Mary Ritter Beard
My dear Smollett ... disgraces his talent by writing those stupid romances called history.
~ Mary Wortley Montagu
The transcendental promises a vacation from history.
~ Mason Cooley
Every literary critic believes he will outwit history and have the last word.
~ Mason Cooley
History goes out of control almost as often as nature does.
~ Mason Cooley
Creative memory is the historian's most subtle opponent.
~ Mason Cooley
Since I was there in the very beginning, I know the history of the characters. So, I make comments about the tone and sometimes remind the writers that we've done that before.
~ Matt Groening
If Hillary Clinton wins the race, she will win it with the most diverse coalition that anybody's ever been elected by in presidential history.
~ Matthew Dowd