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Quotes About Historic

I've been in silly movies and romantic movies and historic movies.
~ Kevin Bacon
The historic moment is always simple and brief: it belongs to one man and one will alone, without possibility (if it be truly ripe) of any confusion of rights. The council's surprise was their consent. They bowed themselves out of the room and also out of the story
~ WILLIAM BOLITHO
of the great cities of the world, only Rome, Istanbul and Cairo can even begin to rival Delhi for the sheer volume and density of historic remains.
~ William Dalrymple
t takes no courage to sign up as a Protestant. After all, millions have done so throughout the West. They are not in any peril. To live by the truths of historic Protestantism, however, is an entirely different matter. That takes courage in today's context.
~ David F. Wells
Eclipse of the light of heaven, eclipse of God - such indeed is the character of the historic hour through which the world is now passing
~ Martin Buber
A world in which government is burdened by historic debt, philanthropy has limited resources, and the private sector is only interested in its own personal gain is simply unsustainable.
~ Simon Mainwaring
I think the whole, like, cultural diversity and the arty side of London is really, really great. And how it's so historic as well.
~ Lily Allen
This is a great thing that's happening in baseball. We don't know if it will ever happen again.
~ Mark McGwire
If you want to make history, you have to do historic things
~ Kobe Bryant
Everybody knows they're on the Obama team: There isn't vice presidential vs. presidential division, there's not a generational pull. People have internalized that this is a real moment in history.
~ Rahm Emanuel
For me, in fact, the mark of the historic is the nonchalance with which it picks up an individual and deposits him in a trend, like a house playfully moved by a tornado.
~ Mary McCarthy
The historic lesson is that it was a strategic failure to go into Iraq. History will not be and should not be kind with that decision.
~ Michael T. Flynn
I race historic muscle cars back in Australia, and that's my hobby. And I try to race home as soon as I've finished a movie but don't tell anyone.
~ Eric Bana
It is profoundly important to honor President Johnson's historic contributions to justice and democracy - and to appreciate how hard he fought for the rights of every Texan and every American.
~ Marc Veasey
When Washington visited Portsmouth in 1789, he was not much impressed by the architecture of the little town that had stood by him so stoutly in the struggle for independence.
~ Thomas Bailey Aldrich
a stocky figure in a frock coat sprang up the front steps of the White House.
~ Edmund Morris
Among all the upheavals of war with al Qaeda, the surest indicator of the historic stakes is the ongoing rotation of top U.S. government managers - scores at a time - into a bunker deep underground and far from Washington.
~ Barton Gellman
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel has denounced negotiation with Iran as a 'historic mistake' that is making the world 'a more dangerous place.' His partners in Washington vigorously echo that view.
~ Stephen Kinzer
It hadn't really percolated through my brain that I was going to see real, live TV from the surface of the Moon, and boy, oh, boy, had that Saturn V launch been exciting! And then, there it was - late at night, sitting up, watching, and there was Neil Armstrong actually standing on the surface of the Moon.
~ David Weber
I hadn't realized quite how extraordinary Charles Lindbergh's achievement was in flying the Atlantic alone. He had never flown over open water before, but he flew straight to Dingle Bay in Ireland and then on to Paris, exactly as planned.
~ Bill Bryson
This uprising of 1976-77 was, of course, the historic watershed... Within a short period of time, it propelled into the forefront of our struggle millions of young people.
~ Oliver Tambo
Today, energy prices are at historic highs. Some analysts estimate that energy price shocks this year could cost American consumers more than $40 billion. Speaking very frankly, we cannot afford this kind of expense.
~ Jeff Bingaman
I played with the Pittsburgh Steelers this year, one of the most historic franchises in the NFL, and it is so cool and amazing.
~ Devlin Hodges
As plans for the first lunar landing started to be made, nobody had really thought about who would be out first.
~ Henry Spencer