Famous Quotes & Sayings

Hal Borland

He who travels west travels not only with the sun but with history.

Glen Cook

Every ounce of my cynicism is supported by historical precedent.

Herbie Hancock

My first Grammy wasn't even in a jazz category, but of course I was really excited. 'Rockit' was the beginning of kind of a new era for the whole hip-hop movement.

Herman Melville

If a well-constituted individual refrains from blazoning aught amiss or calamitous in his family, a nation in the like circumstance may without reproach be equally discreet.

Herb Kelleher

We have a strategic plan. It's called 'doing things'.

Henry David Thoreau

There is no history of how bad became better.

Henry David Thoreau

Indeed, the Englishman's history of New England commences only when it ceases to be New France.

Henry David Thoreau

We perceive that the schemers return again and again to common sense and labor. Such is the evidence of history.

Henry David Thoreau

All the events which make the annals of the nations are but the shadows of our private experiences.

Henry David Thoreau

Going from--toward; it is the history of every one of us.

H. L. Mencken

On one issue, at least, men and women agree. They both distrust women.

Jeremy Bentham

If Christianity needed an Anti-Christ, they needed look no farther than Paul.

Jennifer Egan

Nineteen eighty is almost here, thank God. the hippies are getting old, they blew their brains on acid and now they're begging on street corners all over San Francisco. Their hair is tangled and their bare feet are thick and gray as shoes. We're sick of them.

Jerry Seinfeld

Introducing 'Lite': the new way to spell 'Light'; but with twenty per cent fewer letters.

Jerry Seinfeld

People who read the tabloids deserve to be lied to.

Jim Bishop

A good writer of history is a guy who is suspicious.

Jeff Galloway

If you're laboring up a steep hill, imagine that a towrope is attached to the center of your chest, pulling you steadily toward the top.

Jean Chretien

You have to look at history as an evolution of society.

James A. Garfield

History is but the unrolled scroll of prophecy.

James A. Garfield

The civil service can never be placed on a satisfactory basis until it is regulated by law.

James A. Garfield

History is constantly repeating itself, making only such changes of programme as the growth of nations and centuries requires.

James A. Garfield

The lesson of history is rarely learned by the actors themselves.

James A. Baldwin

James Joyce is right about history being a nightmare-- but it may be that nightmare from which no one can awaken. People are trapped in history and history in trapped in them.

Jacqueline Carey

The tapestry of history is woven of many threads.

Christopher Lasch

The same historical development that turned the citizen into a client transformed the worker from a producer into a consumer.

Christopher Hitchens

History is a tragegy, not a morality tale.

Christopher Hitchens

One of the many dreadful aspects of the Kennedy 'legacy' is the now-unbreakable grip of celebrity politics, image-doctoring, stage management, and "torch-passing" rhetoric in general.

George Harrison

We first got marijuana from an older drummer with another group in Liverpool. We didn't actually try it until after we'd been to Hamburg. I remember we smoked it in the band room in a gig in Southport and we all learnt to do the Twist that night, which was popular at the time. We were all seeing if we could do it. Everybody was saying, 'This stuff isn't doing anything.' It was like that old joke where a party is going on and two hippies are up floating on the ceiling, and one is saying to the other, 'This stuff doesn't work, man.'

George Harrison

The world is ready for a mystic revolution, a discovery of the God in each of us.

Frederic Morton

The Rothschilds have conquered the world more thoroughly, more cunningly, and much more lastingly than all the Caesars before...

Friedrich Nietzsche

The thirst for equality can express itself either as a desire to draw everyone down to one's level, or to raise oneself and everyone else up.

Franz Boas

The historical development of the work of anthropologists seems to single out clearly a domain of knowledge that heretofore has not been treated by any other science

Franz Grillparzer

Historical! Must it be historical to catch your attention? Even though historicity, like notoriety, denotes nothing more than thatsomething has occurred.