Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jan Morris

We're working on understanding what the words mean and the history of it as well because it's such a huge part of American history and our culture. If we don't preserve our culture, who will?

Robert Zoellick

My true love is history, but I didn't know how I could make a living at it.

Octavio Paz

Man, it seems to me, is not in history: he is history.

Michael Beasley

You always want to be remembered as one of the greats. We know the history and tradition of this program.

Microsoft has a long history of publicizing its strategies by leaking memos judiciously, or not so judiciously.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

We have numerous examples of perseverance in the scriptures, in secular history, and in our own experiences.

Stewart Baker

Wiretapping has a long history of enthusiastic use in France.

I was pretty impressed by the movie, especially as Hollywood history goes, but the story is kind of claustrophobic and isolated. You get no sense of what was going on in the wider culture,

Maya Angelou

You may write me down in history with your bitter, twisted lines. You may trod me in the very dirt, but still, like dust, I'll rise.

Noam Chomsky

The Vietnamese see their history as an unending series of struggles of resistance to aggression, by the Chinese, the Mongols, the Japanese, the French, and now the Americans.

Aldous Huxley

Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history.

Ridley Scott

Unfortunately, we don't seem to learn from history, do we? And you'd think we would.

I tell people that the history of Mozilla and Firefox is so one of a kind that it should not be used - ever - as an example of what's possible.

Kit Harington

I studied history when I was at school, at A-level, actually. I wouldn't profess to being very knowledgeable though, no.

Dontrelle Willis

Warren Spahn was one of those players before my time, but I knew a little history about him,

Theological reflection takes place within history, but the history within which it takes place is an ongoing, open-ended process.

David Miliband

History is information. Memory is part of your identity.

Ferdinand Mount

We criticize, copy, patronize, idolize and insult but we never doubt that the U.S. has a unique position in the history of human hopes.

Isaac Newton

There are more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible that in any profane history.

The levee system will be better and stronger than it ever has been in the history of New Orleans.

Brian Clarke

The location is very unique. It's got a lot of history, tradition.

James Stockdale

They can shout down the head of the physics department at Cal Tech.

John Betjeman

History must not be written with bias, and both sides must be given, even if there is only one side.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

The history of the world is none other than the progress of the , consciousness of freedom.

And he taught all of us who know anything about the history of this place most of what we know,

The men who make history have not time to write it

The memorial took on a new meaning. It will have tremendous history lessons for generations to come.

The market is by all measures of history overvalued.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

The tapestry of history that seems so full of tragedy when viewed from the front has countless comic scenes woven into its reverse side. In truth, tragedy and comedy are the twin masks of history - its mass appeal.

Khalil Gibran

History does not repeat itself except in the minds of those who do not know history.

Napoleon Bonaparte

I don't employ Talleyrand when I want a thing done, but only when I want to have the appearance of wanting to do it.

Napoleon Bonaparte

History is the invention of historians.

Lyndon B. Johnson

If we fail now, then we will have forgotten in abundance what we learned in hardship: that democracy rests on faith; freedom asks more than it gives; and the judgment of God is harshest on those who are most favored.