Quotes About History

Some of the presidents were great and some of them weren't. I can say that, because I wasn't one of the great presidents, but I had a good time trying to be one, I can tell you that.

To wind the mighty secrets of the past, And turn the key of time.

It's really important in any historical fiction, I think, to anchor the story in its time. And you do that by weaving in those details, by, believe it or not, by the plumbing.

We pick bygone time up by the handfuls and, like clay, see if it feels right and then form it into stories about the past.

My time of martial arts was traditional.

Time flies, and what is past is done.

I think any time you've got a story based on a true story, no matter how accurate it is, obviously it's still fictitious.

When you think of how history is revealed, we know certain things to be facts at certain periods of time, which turn out not to be so factual as time marches on.

I think when you've been in office for a long time, you have a record, and that record is fair game.

How could you be a Great Man if history brought you no Great Events, or brought you to them at the wrong time, too young, too old?

We must not forget that all great revolutions and reformations would look mean and meagre if examined in detail as they occurred at the time.

We study history not to be clever in another time, but to be wise always.

If the Americans attack Iran for the first time in 1,400 years, we may unite Sunnis and Shias against us. So I guess there is room for accomplishment everywhere.

He who would foresee what is to happen should look to what has happened: for all that is has its counterpart in time past.

The notion of 'history from below' hit the history profession in England very hard around the time I came to Oxford in the early 1960s.

You don't need a time machine if you know how to remember.

The ancestors of printed comics drew, painted and carved their time-paths from beginning to end, without interruption, ... the infinite canvas.

There have always been people during periods of history that thought that we could get along with the enemy if only we would reach out. Peace in our time is a philosophy.

Modern Hinduism, modern Jainism, and Buddhism branched off at the same time. For some period, each seemed to have wanted to outdo the others in grotesqueness and humbuggism.

History is replete with examples of moments in time when we talk about deficit reduction and try to advance on it around the world, that is, where it leads to job losses, not job creation.

The stars are dead. The animals will not look: We are left alone with our day, and the time is short, and History to the defeated May say Alas but cannot help nor pardon.

There have been three great inventions since the beginning of time: fire, the wheel, and central banking.

Perhaps we should put up posters in such places reminding people that where they stand was underwater the last time that the Earth ran a 3°F fever.

Only people have been through that miserable time will recall the pass from their deep memory.