History Quotes

My dad is white, he's an art history teacher, he's very traditional.

People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make.

Well, I'm not sure, but of one thing I am certain: History judges one differently than contemporary observers, and so I think that as time passes, I hope that not me personally so much, but our administration will be seen for some of the things that we accomplished.

History repeats itself. Historians repeat each other.

To be converted you have to destroy your past, destroy your history. You have to stamp on it, you have to say 'my ancestral culture does not exist, it doesn't matter.'

Man has the power to act as his own destroyer - and that is the way he has acted through most of his history.

Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.

Everyday I look back at my history and feel regret.

There are some real memorable highlights in my history that, in my mind, are such milestones. Winning a national championship in college and being on the Olympic platform getting a gold medal. Visiting the Hall of Fame and going into the Hall of Fame.

Wales is blessed with some truly magnificent castles, full of history and a must see for visitors.

If we look to the saints, this great luminous wake with which God has passed through history, we truly see that here is a force for good that survives through millennia; here is truly light from light.

Strangers are exciting, their mystery never ends. But, there's nothing like looking at your own history in the faces of your friends.

I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.

I got left for Mr. Bean. I found out a year after we split up. I opened the newspaper and there was a full-page story. No one else in the history of time has ever been left for Mr. Bean.

But history is neither watchmaking nor cabinet construction. It is an endeavor toward better understanding.

History teaches us to beware of the excitation of the liberated and the injustices that often accompany their righteous thirst for justice.

I am running to make history, to show that no human is limited. It's not about money, it's about showing a generation of people that there are no limits.

When President Obama entered the White House, the economy was in a free-fall. The auto industry: on its back. The banks: frozen up. More than three million Americans had already lost their jobs. And America's bravest, our men and women in uniform, were fighting what would soon be the longest wars in our history.

How is it reasonable that in a country purporting to be a democracy, I am not permitted to speak freely? Why, as a politician, should I be banned from expressing political opinions? Why, as a student of history, can I not present the facts as I see them, without fear of reprisal?

Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people.