Quotes About History

The history of all times, and of today especially, teaches that...women will be forgotten if they forget to think about themselves.

The majority see the obstacles; the few see the objectives; history records the successes of the latter, while oblivion is the reward of the former

In Him (God), history and prophecy are one and the same.

In times of danger large groups rise to the highest pitch of enthusiasm, courage and sacrifice . . . Mankind will be refashioned and history rewritten when this law is understood and obeyed.

The Kenyans haven't done much in the last two games, in fact they haven't competed since 1972

To be a legend, you've either got to be dead or excessively old.

It is a great pleasure to transport one's-self into the spirit of the times; to see how a wise man has thought before us, and to what a glorious height we have at last carried it.

Old and new make the warp and woof of every moment. There is no thread that is not a twist of these two strands.

One thing I will say about the Germans, they are always perfectly willing to give somebody's land to somebody else

Historically, the East was more concerned with understanding the mind and the West was more involved in understanding matter.

The past is history, the future is a mystery. But today is a gift...that's why they call it the present. So cherish every minute of it.

History is change happening one person at a time.

We are really so prejudiced by our educations, that, as the ancients deified their heroes, we deify their madmen.

Britain's last gold medal was a bronze in 1952 in Helsinki

Did you know that the institution of marriage was created when the average person lived to the age of 30?

The past has been there all along, reminding us: This time--maybe, hopefully, against all odds, we will get it right.

It is always self-defeating to pretend to the style of a generation younger than your own; it simply erases your own experience in history.

You can't understand where someone's going unless you understand where they've been.

We celebrate the past to awaken the future.

There's an old saying that victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan.... I'm the responsible officer of the Government.

There are no inevitabilities in history

On a single winged word hath hung the destiny of nations.

Rail-splitting produced an immortal president in Lincoln, but golf hasn't produced even a good Congressman.

There are so many people who have lived and died before you. You will never have a new problem; you're not going to ever have a new problem. Somebody wrote the answer down in a book somewhere.