Famous Quotes & Sayings

He has no history of that kind of violent crime.

He has a true sense of history and pride in the state.

John Grahame

He has a passion for history and literature.

He has a lot of history with area. It shows his commitment, and I'm sure it's part of the reason he is so committed.

He has a long history of independence and who he receives money from has nothing to do with his position on issues.

He'll be remembered as a history maker. He won three state championships and set school records.

Stacy Schiff

For thousands of years, men have written history, so it seems to me that most of what we've read is from the male point of view.

I get really sad when I talk about the house. It has more history than any place I've ever lived or probably will ever live again.

I wish there was some kind of pill I could give them right now. We have a history of not doing as well as I'd like in league. We have to be more intense.

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.

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.

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.