Quotes About History

Before I'm a zombie nerd, before I'm a science-fiction nerd, I am a history nerd.

History is not an endless succession of meaningless circles but a directed movement toward a great event.

Jesus spoke to those who had turned their backs on history. He spoke to those who had blatantly ignored sign after sign, servant after servant.

each new poem is partly propelled by the formal energies of all the poems that have preceded it in the history of literature.

Out of the huts of history's shame I rise.

A stomach without bread and a purse without gold have led to so many revolutions in history.

Do not boast because you have beliefs; don't forget that hundreds of absurd beliefs in the history are totally disappeared!

Do not bother about to be recorded in history, try not to become a thing of the past!

History respects revolutions; and yet, if a revolution is progressive, support it; if it is reactionary, resist it!

I like to imagine the "what ifs" of history.

You don't realize 'till you get here what a moment in history you're a part of.

Very few conflicts in the history of the world have been satisfactorily concluded according to a published timetable, because you lose all flexibility in dealing with your opponents.

I'm defining [presidential courage] pretty narrowly. It's not only taking a big political risk but it's also the risk that in the hindsight of history, people think it's wise.

One of the rules of history is that people do not write about what is too obvious to mention. And so the information, having never been recorded, is now lost for ever.

Ingeniously plotted and executed, Print the Legend is an epic masterpiece from Craig McDonald. Beginning to end, I was riveted by this story of character, history and intrigue.

You can take things from the past, from the culture, from the immediate past and things that have not yet entered the culture, so they have no history yet. You can create your own context.

I sometimes lie awake at night and try to imagine what would be the best period in history to spend one's seventy-odd years.

The history of second-generation actors isn't great in our industry.

If journalism is the first draft of history, then digital literacy is the first blush of the first page of history.

Inthehistorian'sview biography isa kindoffrogspawn it takes ten thousand biographies to make one small history.

If you get the access to see history happen, do you understand the history when it does happen? And the answer to that question is no, you dont.

History shows that there is no more potent engine for reform than the passion of voters who feel betrayed by the politicians they hoped would do the right thing.

I've always loved history and history is collage, it is a juxtaposition of the good and the bad and the strange, and how you place those sentences together changes the whole mood of a history.

We had one moment in history where we were disseminating what we now call the Islamic State. That's when we finally cut the deal with the insurgents.