Quotes About History

I spent six years at United and I owe them everything that I am today. I made history at United and won many trophies. It was a pleasure to play at Old Trafford.

Boxing is your father's sport.

In 1973, a woman could not get a credit card without her husband or father or a male signing off on it.

In terms of history and sports, I don't think people will forget.

While statistics are interesting, they're all in the past.

If someone starts talking about pride today I'm going to vomit... The Apache nation had pride and look where they are. The bushmen of Kalahari have pride and look where they are.

The sun has been there for 500, 600 years.

They try to say this era was a tainted era. But so many great players played in the last 15 to 20 years. This is going to be the best era in the history of the game in my opinion

I don't know if I want to break my own record. I think I would rather leave it as it is.

My family actually lived in the same village for about 400 years. They had great stability until the last century. People lived and intermarried in small villages.

Nadal's the best player in history on [clay], and he is one of the best-ever players that played this game.

Small mistakes, the lack of care, little accidents, and somewhere a tipping point is passed and things go badly wrong. Expedition history brims with tragedies built out of incremental missteps.

But the Earth holds ghosts, even of entire nations.

Glasgow is still full of churches built in the last century. Half of them have been turned into warehouses.

Many lives and limbs have been lost, McCandless, by excluding women from the more intricate medical arts.

History is neither a prison nor a museum, nor is it a set of materials for self-congratulation.

The first six million years had been all fun and games.

As the old saying went, the Manhattan Project wasn't built in a day. Or was that Rome? Something to do with Earth, anyway.

Gohar smiled at the thought of El Kordi, at his exaggeration of his troubles, more fictitious than real, and his constant search for human dignity. What is most futile in man, he thought, is this search for dignity. All these people trying to maintain their dignity! For what? The history of mankind is a long, bloody nightmare only because of such nonsense.

Children don't heed the life experiences of their parents, and nations ignore history. Bad lessons always have to be learned anew.

So long as there are men, there will be wars.

I am predominantly critical concerning the activities, and especially the political activities, through history of the official clergy.

We do not forget the humane attitude of the Soviet Union who was the only one among the big powers to open her doors to hundreds of thousands of Jews when the Nazi armies were advancing in Poland.

Les américains sont le seul peuple a être passé directement de la barbarie à la décadence sans passer par ce que l'on nomme ailleurs : Civilisation !