Famous Quotes & Sayings

When you do genealogy, you do history by accident.

We have made history here today. We will not stop until we are satisfied.

Mikhail Saakashvili

We want to turn this page of history for this country.

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.

Erik Erikson

The way you 'take history' is also a way of 'making history.'

Bill Buford

Rachael Ray is probably the most watched kitchen personality in the history of American television.

Clarence Darrow

History repeats itself, and that's one of the things that's wrong with history

Alan Greenspan

When you go back and look at American history, it's not terribly different from Canadian history. If you weren't self-reliant on the prairie, you wouldn't survive.

Adam Weishaupt

Nothing would be more profitable to us than a right history of mankind.

David Harewood

When I was in South Africa, I went for dinner with some friends, and I knew more about their history than they did - it just hasn't been told.

Douglas Wilder

Slavery is nothing to joke about. The history of this nation's involvement with slavery is nothing to pass off in a joke.

David Christian

I had this feeling that, somehow, we ought to be teaching not just the history of particular nations or particular regions, but the history of humanity.

David Christian

What we normally define as history doesn't interest me. It's a constraint.

David Christian

I think what I was after was a unifying story that could bring everything together, that could give me a sense of the whole of history.

David Christian

Big History studies the history of everything, offering a way of making sense of our world and our role within it.

Barry Humphries

I really feel sorry for kids who aren't interested in history - recent history, either, because it is this that made us what we are.

Andy Kindler

I am the smartest comedian in the history of the world.

The most spectacular anti-lava effort in history occurred on the Icelandic island of Heimaey in 1973.

Washington Irving

A woman's whole life is a history of the affections.

Malcolm X

History proves that the white man is a devil.

Anthony Horowitz

Throughout history, story telling was at the very beginning of life.

The only thing we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history.

The phone started ringing off the hook, ... The rest is history.

John Burnside

When you have a child, you think about your personal history and what you offer them as a larger narrative, and I realised I knew nothing about my father's circumstances other than what he'd told me.

There has never in human history been that many communications sources.

There has never been a single homicide in history that has been investigated to this extent.

We're together as a family, out in the open air, reliving history and sharing it with people, ... Doing this give all of us a different perspective.

Joseph Lowery

We knew then that history was being made.

Kevin Spacey

Why is 'Game of Thrones' the most pirated show in the history of TV? Because people can't get it fast enough, that's why.

We are working to see local history be more visible.

David M. Shoup

Remember, God provides the best camouflage several hours out of every 24.

Condoleezza Rice

When you have big historic changes, there are going to be ups and downs... There are going to be peaks and valleys. Some things are going to go right. Some things are going to go wrong. But as long as the strategic direction is going in the right way, that's really what you have to judge.