Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tim Rice

I love the history of popular music. I love to know what people are listening to, even if I don't like it.

Alexander Smith

A bottomless pit of violence, a Tower of Babel where all are speakers and no hearers.

Kirk Cameron

The history of the world is the story of people getting off track.

Lara Giddings

Labor has a proud history of tackling discrimination and introducing important social reform.

Kelly Wearstler

I love history... everything is inspired by history, so that's why I love vintage and antiques.

Nancy Pelosi

Washington and Congress are steeped in history and tradition, and that's been very male-oriented.

Mohammed Morsi

I know about technology, about research, scientific applications, culture, civilization, differences between nations of the world, the nature of history.

Camille Paglia

Throughout history, ambassadors have always been symbolic incarnations of the sovereignty of their nations and the dignity of their leaders.

C. J. Mahaney

Over the years, I have studied church history as well as the contemporary church, and I noticed how rare it is for a God-glorifying transition of leadership to take place in a local church.

Nikola Tesla

The history of science shows that theories are perishable. With every new truth that is revealed we get a better understanding of Nature and our conceptions and views are modified.

We are looking for people that went to the school or who might know some of its history.

Anita Shreve

The pull of history has been a strong theme in my life as a novelist.

A. Whitney Brown

The past actually happened but history is only what someone wrote down.

Oscar Arias

During the 41 years that have elapsed since Costa Rica abolished its army, our fundamental freedoms have never been threatened, nor do we know a shameful history of repression.

I want to record the name of Chen Guangbiao in Chinese history.

Bob Newhart

Humor is so important to the American scene throughout history.

Bill Bryson

The world at night, for much of history, was a very dark place indeed.

We don't have much of a history that would tell us what the ECB is going to do. All sorts of scenarios are possible.

We don't have much of a history that would tell us what the ECB is going to do, ... All sorts of scenarios are possible.

Jesse Jackson

We are saddened by the passing of Rosa Parks. We rejoice in her legacy, which will never die. In many ways, history is marked as before, and after, Rosa Parks.

The president's decision yesterday to set into motion the development of the hydrogen bomb... has placed us on the knife-edge of history.

Giles Foden

Ordinary Kenyans rightly want to be able to shop safely, and there is a long history of them doing just that, irrespective of their religion or that of the shop owner.

Colm Meaney

It's interesting because I haven't done a lot of period work in the past, but I always wanted to because I'm interested in history.

Ada Louise Huxtable

Every generation tailors history to its taste.

Abraham Lincoln

History is not history unless it is the truth.

Aleister Crowley

The people who have really made history are the martyrs.

Aldous Huxley

Death is the only thing we haven't succeeded in completely vulgarizing.

We'd love to get more people here so we can share this important piece of history.

We want to make history. There's only been one other team who has done it. And who knows how long ago that was.

A. J. P. Taylor

History is the great propagator of doubt.

A. J. P. Taylor

All other forms of history - economic history, social history, psychological history, above all sociology - seem to me history with the history left out.

A. J. P. Taylor

History is not a catalogue but...a convincing version of events.

A. N. Wilson

History does not eliminate grievances. It lays them down like landmines.