Famous Quotes & Sayings

Aristotle

If you would understand anything, observe its beginning and its development

Barbara Boxer

Let's not rewrite history, it's too soon for that,

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.

Goodrich was the biggest acquisition in the history of aerospace.

Nathaniel Philbrick

As an author of narrative history, I read a lot of history books.

Nathaniel Philbrick

If you live on Nantucket, you can't avoid its history, and 'Moby Dick' is the way most of us get into Nantucket's history.

Johan Santana

We did this together. We, as a team, made history tonight.

Leon Krier

Tiredness sets a natural limit to what a human being is prepared to walk daily, and this limit has taught man all through history the size of rural or urban communities.

Plato

Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.

Rick Perlstein

I'm reverent toward my sources. History is a team sport, and references are how you support your teammates.

My reading of philosophy and history is desultory; I know so much and yet so little.

Bobby Jindal

Our culture, language, history, and values are vital to uniting us as a nation.

Erwin McManus

When we look at history, we see history is made up of the heroes of their times. Yet, somehow we miss this when we put on the lens of the Scriptures.

I make a rod for my own back because people see my novels as quasi documentaries. But it is never history that's the main event of my books. It's my characters.

Laura Anne Gilman

Every time we revise our history, we also revise the mythology of our history.

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.

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.

Simon Wiesenthal

When history looks back, I want people to know that the Nazis could not kill millions of people with impunity.

Sonia Sotomayor

It is important for all of us to appreciate where we come from and how that history has really shaped us in ways that we might not understand.

In the history of pilot reports, 'Seinfeld' has got to be one of the worst of all time.

Artie Lange

Unlike a lot of comics, I didn't care about getting on 'Saturday Night Live.' That show had such history and was so established that I didn't see the point.

bell hooks

These days I wonder more and more why people are pessimistic when American history actually supports optimism.

Beeban Kidron

If we don't record our own history on the Net, it will disappear.

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.

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

A. J. P. Taylor

History is the great propagator of doubt.