History Quotes

World history is a court of judgment.

History should be written as philosophy.

Culinary tradition is not always based on fact. Sometimes it's based on history, on habits that come out of a time when kitchens were fueled by charcoal.

You don't want to trash what you've done; that's your history.

All in all, for someone who was immersed in, fascinated by, and dedicated to flight, I was disappointed by the wrinkle in history that had brought me along one generation late. I had missed all the great times and adventures in flight.

It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving - as if it were an individual person - its own ends. History is nothing but the activity of men in pursuit of their ends.

Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.

The history of the twentieth century - America's century! - has been pretty much a history of rising prices.

Let me tell you, never before in the history of this planet has anybody made the progress that African-Americans have made in a 30-year period, in spite of many black folks and white folks lying to one another.

Value your freedom or you will lose it, teaches history. 'Don't bother us with politics', respond those who don't want to learn.

You're going to relegate my history to a month.

History... is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.

When I arrived at Columbia, I gave up acting and became interested in all things French. French poetry, French history, French literature.

One of my favorite things, as a critic, was finding books by new writers who possessed a distinctive voice and vision, an inventive gift for storytelling. I also loved immersing myself in works of nonfiction that taught me something about the world, that made the past come alive or shed light on hidden corners of history or the news.

Marxism is an interpretation of history which explains the progress of society as a product of the expansion of the forces of production of the material means of life, that is, the development of economy.

Oh, my kids know me, and they know the Rammstein's history. It's hard to shock them. I got punished, in the sense that they're really big Coldplay fans.

In the tumult of men and events, solitude was my temptation; now it is my friend. What other satisfaction can be sought once you have confronted History?

I've been knocked down more than any heavyweight champion in history.

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.

For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself.