Famous Quotes & Sayings

Cynthia Ozick

History ... isn't simply what has happened. It's a judgment on what has happened.

We got it and got what we wanted to do. We did something that's never been done and set a little history tonight. We're going to keep going. We can only worry about our team and how we play and go from there.

Bill Wyman

I have no restrictions, no limits, no musical history to live with.

Doc Rivers

I don't think you should ever run from history. You should learn from it and embrace it.

Hilary Mantel

The more history I learnt, the less interested I got in winning arguments and the more interested in establishing the truth.

Ed Asner

There's never been a time in history, no matter what the public thinks, when actors have been paid more than they should be.

Frank Rich

Looking back at my high school years, I'm struck by how slowly history can move.

P. J. O'Rourke

There is no 20-year period in American history when stocks lost money.

Robert Harris

If one tries to think about history, it seems to me - it's like looking at a range of mountains. And the first time you see them, they look one way. But then time changes, the pattern of light shifts. Maybe you've moved slightly, your perspective has changed. The mountains are the same, but they look very different.

Stephen Kinzer

Conflict with the United States is one of the overwhelming facts of Latin American history.

Fidel is really a special case. He's a personality of history.

Amy Heckerling

I'm obsessed with history, especially WWII and the Jews in Europe during the Holocaust.

An obituary should be an exercise in contemporary history, not a funeral oration.

Morgan Freeman

You're going to relegate my history to a month.

Elie Wiesel

Historically, I come from Jewish history. I had the classic upbringing in the Yeshiva, learning, learning, and more learning.

Angelina Jolie

Homework's hard. Especially math. My kids joke with me. They tell me they have homework. I say, 'Okay.' And then I sit down and they say, 'It's math.' 'No! Not math! English, history, anything!'

Mao Zedong

Despise the enemy strategically, but take him seriously tactically.

We have this long history of avant-garde work or at least nontraditional works.

An hour or two spent in writing from dictation, another hour or two in reading aloud, a little geography and a little history and a little physics made the day pass busily.

Microsoft has a long history of publicizing its strategies by leaking memos judiciously, or not so judiciously.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

We have numerous examples of perseverance in the scriptures, in secular history, and in our own experiences.

Sergei Ivanov

We have a history of knowing what Afghanistan is.

We have a history of accretive transactions that have significantly benefited shareholders.

Jan Morris

We're working on understanding what the words mean and the history of it as well because it's such a huge part of American history and our culture. If we don't preserve our culture, who will?

Robert Zoellick

My true love is history, but I didn't know how I could make a living at it.

Michael Beasley

You always want to be remembered as one of the greats. We know the history and tradition of this program.

Martin Freeman

You absorb 2,000 years of history just by being near the Thames.

We can be very proud. There aren't many times you can set history like that.

Maya Angelou

You may write me down in history with your bitter, twisted lines. You may trod me in the very dirt, but still, like dust, I'll rise.

Noam Chomsky

The Vietnamese see their history as an unending series of struggles of resistance to aggression, by the Chinese, the Mongols, the Japanese, the French, and now the Americans.

Aldous Huxley

Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history.

Nobu Matsuhisa

Peru was the Incas; it has 3,000 to 4,000 years of history.

Mike Shanahan

Points will come. Yards will come. I think we've proven over history that we can move the football. So, maybe some day we'll get some yards and some points.