Quotes About History

If you look throughout American history, it has been protests and mass movements and the people rising up that has moved to this country forward.

I'm very proud of 'Valhalla Rising.'

If you go to Udaipur, even the locals from the lower middle class have a certain air about them. They are very proud of their heritage and history.

The proud fight against colonialism is one that should be consigned to history.

We want to be proud when we look back on our history when we grow old.

If you don't feel apologetic for slavery, if you don't feel apologetic for colonialism, if you feel proud of it then say that.

We've got to know our history. We have to be able to bring our children to a place that they can be proud of.

The people of Chicago are a proud people - and for good reason.

My mother's proud of where she's from, and her history, and her past, and same with my dad. I have roots in Africa. Like, I am from Africa as well as from Germany, and I am very proud of that.

I'd be prouder still to say I was Canada's 10th woman prime minister.

When history looks back, it will prove what I'll die knowing.

Then this will only prove again and again, that Monarchy in Germany is he longer capable of a national act.

I made my history. I don't have to prove anything.

On paper, my history says that my future was not very promising. But through grace, I have the opportunity to prove that where you start is not where you have to end up.

We are trying to prove that the blues lives on forever and anybody in this place can sing the blues.

History has proved that dictators can't last forever.

And that is called paying the Dane-geld; but we've proved it again and again, that if once you have paid him the Dane-geld you never get rid of the Dane.

Our military thought that they couldn't get to Pearl Harbor, that it was too long a journey from Japan to get there, and they proved us wrong.

Historically, religion has often proved a more lethal and more divisive force than any secular ideology. It has also often been a more divisive force than race.

Historically, individuals possessed of the confidence that privilege and good fortune bestow have often proved conspicuous reformers: think only of Franklin D. Roosevelt.

To speak about yourself, you must first be able to assemble a sense of origin. For descendants of slaves, this has proved one of the most precious losses of self-knowledge we've endured.

Since its founding in 1854, Penn State has proven to be a leading institution of higher learning.

Books are an ancient and proven medium. Their physical form inspires passion.

People don't believe or understand that a community can lose hope. You can have a whole community where hopelessness is the norm, where folks don't have faith that things will get better because history and circumstances have proven over 30, 40, or 50 years that things don't get better.