Quotes About History

History is past politics and politics present history.

When great changes occur in history when great principles are involved as a rule the majority are wrong.

History n: an account mostly false of events mostly unimportant which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves and soldiers mostly fools.

The history of soccer is a sad voyage from beauty to duty. When the sport became an industry, the beauty that blossoms from the joy of play got torn out by its very roots.

The memories of men are too frail a thread to hang history from.

I've told myself I have a chance to make history, and that's my focus.

The experience of history should lead us to hope and strive to make the world better, not to despair and resign ourselves to fate.

I have a very strong sense that we only know where we are by looking clearly at where we've come from.

History is something that never happened written by a man who wasn't there.

History a distillation of rumor

History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes follies and misfortunes of mankind.

Well, the ancients might not have been very heroic. Most of them were probably like Mother, crouched somewhere trying to work out how to make fake jawbone jewelry that would look like the real thing.

Human history is in essence a history of ideas.

The BP spill was the greatest environmental catastrophe in U.S. history. Yet somehow, gas companies like BP and Halliburton ran interference on reporting that story.

In schools with a history of chaos, the teacher who can keep the classroom calm becomes virtually indispensable.

The thing is I think vaccines are one of the greatest medical breakthroughs that we have. I'm a big fan and a great fan of the history of the development of the smallpox vaccine, for example.

I think my demise has been prematurely reported. That's what I think. I think I'm going take this and make medical history, and I really believe that.

Design is a vital component to the enrichment of our everyday lives. Japan has a very rich history and culture of design, and I feel it is a very important dialogue to open and keep evolving.

Insider trading by hedge funds has a long and distinguished history, dating to the days when people didn't know that there was such a thing as a hedge fund.

She was a voice with a body as afterthought, a wry smile that sailed through heavy traffic. Give her a history and she'd disappear.Eric Packer about Vija Kinski

I remember being in a history lesson and saying to my teacher, 'How come you never talk about black scientists and inventors and pioneers?' And she looked at me and said, 'Because there aren't any.'

My grandfather had a paint store. It's what put my mom through college. Small business is part of my family history.

If you look at the history of other movements, whether Civil Rights or environmental rights, these are all decades-long undertakings.

Food for us comes from our relatives, whether they have wings or fins or roots. That is how we consider food. Food has a culture. It has a history. It has a story. It has relationships.