Quotes About History

Taking mathematics from the beginning of the world to the time when Newton lived, what he had done was much the better half.

History reveals that left-brain people have been creating art for a long time now.

The future for us is the foreseeable future. The South Asian, however, feels that it is perfectly realistic to think of a 'long time' in terms of thousands of years.

I always felt like I was meant to have been born in another era, another time.

This is what happens, when, for the first time in modern history, a candidate resorts to lawsuits to try to overturn the outcome of an election for president.

My kids and I sometimes will just sit in my office and talk about what the world was like 68 million years ago. Amanda, our oldest daughter, wanted to be a paleontologist for a long time.

I had 3 brothers, 2 died early, and one of them was living a good long time.

Don't be carried off your feet by anything because it is modern - the latest thing. Go to the Louvre often and spend a good deal of time before the Rembrandts, the Delacroixs.

The history needs to serve the story, not the story the history. But at the same time you can't stray too far.

There's no more morality in world affairs, fundamentally, than there was at the time of Genghis Khan.

Thanks to you, we've reached a milestone. The first time in our nation's history that a woman will be a major party's nominee.

But, if there ever was a time in history when "peace" meant that there was no fighting going on, I have been unable to find out about it.

Hegel remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and personages occur, as it were, twice. He has forgotten to add: the first time as tragedy, the second as farce.

History uses a unit of measure for time that is different from that of the lifespan of the individual, whereas man is only too ready to measure the evolution of history by his own yardstick.

The past is always with us, for nothing that once was time can ever depart.

Canada is our country. It belongs to us and we belong to it. Let us join together, in our time, and make history once again.

I've always sensed for myself an obligation to bear witness to my time.

Names turned over by time, like the plough turning the soil. Bringing up the new while the old were buried in the mud.

The sands of time cannot be stopped. Years pass whether we will them or not... but we can remember. What has been lost may yet live in memories.

Never before in history has innovation offered promise of so much to so many in so short a time.

America has been erased like a blackboard, only to be rebuilt and then erased again. But baseball has marked time while America has rolled by like a procession of steamrollers.

Story is far older than the art of science and psychology, and will always be the elder in the equation no matter how much time passes.

The Holocaust is a sacred subject. One should take off one's shoes when entering its domain, one should tremble each time one pronounces the word.

It seems that every time mankind is given a lot of energy, we go out and wreck something with it.