Famous Quotes & Sayings

I've been one of those lucky people to have been involved with history for my whole career, ... Not many history majors get to do that.

Margaret Chan

When is the next time? We don't have a time frame. I suspect it will likely to be November, if history is anything to go by.

Richard Grasso

When I ran the stock exchange, it was the most successful it's been in its 200-plus-year history. And I was rewarded for success; I would not have been rewarded if we failed.

The input that we really need is any records or any information about the history of the property. Any information people can give to us is welcome.

Stephen Hawking

The fastest manned vehicle in history was Apollo 10. It reached 25,000 mph.

incredibly monumental turning point in the history of a movement.

Indeed, as a view of American military history it may be rivaled only by the vista from Little Round Top at Gettysburg,

Claire Tomalin

I'm interested in history, in trying to relate the past to the present and to understand how people thought about their problems and pleasures.

Dolores Huerta

Don't be a marshmallow. Walk the street with us into history. Get off the sidewalk. Stop being vegetables. Work for Justice. Viva the boycott!

The Nice summit will be one of the toughest in the history of Europe.

Buck Showalter

You think about the years and the number of people who have played this game. When somebody says, '... the history of the game,' that's special. Somebody does not have to tell us to know we have an impressive group.

That's past history, ... He had the surgery. It's over with. All we can hope for now is a speedy recovery and just go forward.

Matthew Pearl

The book I'm working on next, which will be my fifth, returns to literary history. I really do love literary history, and I have plenty more ideas on it.

Javier Bardem

The background - your own history - is way more important than what you can achieve as a professional.

That is where he has just been invaluable. He understands the history of communities and how they are changing.

Megan Smith

Take everything you know. Take your whole selves. Be inclusive. Be open. Make history in the infinite ways that your heart takes you.

This is a very important moment in Gibraltar's history -- 300 years of being British, which is rather longer than it was ever Spanish.

Jeff Lindsay

No TV show in history, no movie ever made - nothing you can imagine as being written or filmed or performed can turn a normal human being into a Dexter.

Laurence Tribe

No treatise, in my sense of that term, can be true to this moment in our constitutional history - to its conflicts, innovations, and complexities.

The near-real-time history being written hasn't been particularly kind to Rumsfeld.

Richard Baker

The nature of the Senate for most of its history has been an organization of white men. That's just a fact. No question about it.

Andrea Jung

It's a proud moment for this company, ... Avon and the people of Suffern have had so much history together.

It's an honor to be part of all this history. You want to put your own mark on the Yankees organization and the history.

Neil Shubin

It represents the transition from water to land - the part of history that includes ourselves. When we talk about the fish's wrist, we're talking about the origin of parts of our own wrist.

It really is an opportunity for a piece of The Plaza. It is New York history and world history, really.

Sean Casey

I told them (the medical personnel) I could get up, but I think it was because of my history with concussions (he's had two previous ones) that they told me not to get up.

Peter Weller

I'm finishing my Ph.D. in Italian Renaissance history.

I love history. I'd like to find more about the history where I live at.

That man was most likely John Clarke. I've had a history with him.

It's never killed a single person in the history of mankind and there's no reason it should be illegal.

Sue Simmons

It's important to know the history of a town.

Jim Sensenbrenner

I've done more impeachments than anybody else in the history of the country.

No nation has a single history, no people a single song.