Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dennis Stock

I did not know anything about his history as an actor in New York. He was a total stranger to me. He was very low-key.

I don't know what kind of history they had there, but obviously we had some history tonight and last night. And it makes for some entertaining hockey.

Calvin Coolidge

I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm.

Celia Green

The only important thing to realise about history is that it all took place in the last five minutes.

Edmund Burke

England and Ireland may flourish together. The world is large enough for both of us. Let it be our care not to make ourselves too little for it.

Brian Kilmeade

Without Cooperstown, you don't have baseball: Baseball is history.

Andrew Motion

More people are reading poetry now than at any time in the history of the human race.

Andrew Bird

Maybe it's just, I've always been to the less traveled places, in any topic, whether it's history, I always like to just choose the most obscure topic. And I don't know why I have that impulse. I can't really explain it but I've been doing that since I was a little kid.

Seamus Heaney

History says, 'Don't hope on this side of the grave.'

The history of the tobacco industry is not a positive one.

I'm into the vampire stuff. I think it's really fascinating and interesting. There's a lot of history behind all of that, and if you look into it, it's really interesting stuff.

I think the decision to make substances like steroids from plants, rather than from animal tissues, was a landmark in the history of medicine as well as the history of chemistry.

George W. S. Trow

It is the idea of 'People' to treat its material as if it were history and, what is more, as if it were the history of a happy period.

George Vecsey

I love Boston. I love Fenway Park. I love Red Sox history. But in no way am I a Red Sox fan.

The Amex has a long, often troubled, sometimes glorious history.

Chris Martin

I think we're a band with a lot of history now so it's nice to come up with something that doesn't have any history at all.

Flea

I just lucked into this weird, little obscure cameoesque film career. I just love being a part of film history.

Albert Camus

Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but the silencing of misery.

Albert Camus

History only exists, in the final analysis, for God.

Clifton Fadiman

We are all citizens of history.

David Frum

One can shape history as much through the facts one omits as through the facts one includes.

Donald Knuth

[The Euclidean algorithm is] the granddaddy of all algorithms, because it is the oldest nontrivial algorithm that has survived to the present day.

Cotton Mather

History is the story of events, with praise or blame.

Andrew Roberts

With their own record of killing 12 million American Indians and supporting slavery for four decades after the British abolished it, Americans wish to project their historical guilt on to someone else.

Anais Nin

Because history is only an aggregate of personal hostilities, personal prejudices, personal blindness and irrationality, there are times when we have to live against it.

Chuck Palahniuk

We'll be remembered more for what we destroy than what we create.

Christopher Paolini

People have an annoying habit of remembering things they shouldn't.

Andrew Marr

History is either a moral argument with lessons for the here-and-now, or it is merely an accumulation of pointless facts.

Ambrose Bierce

Historian - a broad-gauge gossip.

Alphonse de Lamartine

History is neither more nor less than biography on a large scale.

Alphonse de Lamartine

History teaches everything, even the future.

Richard Sherman

No matter who you are, no matter what you do, you'd like to witness history.

E. M. Forster

One is certain of nothing but the truth of one's own emotions.