History quotes:
- "I have some history books that I come back to when I'm trying to debug ..."
By: Lynn Abbey - "I've got two degrees in medieval history. "
By: Lynn Abbey - "My writing has to support more than my research habit, but I love to curl ..."
By: Lynn Abbey - "Nothing is too obscure for my interest. You just never know when some quirk of ..."
By: Lynn Abbey - "When I'm not writing or tweaking my computer, I do embroidery. When I'm not plunging ..."
By: Lynn Abbey - "And remember, where you have a concentration of power in a few hands, all too ..."
By: Lord Acton - "There are worlds of experience beyond the world of the aggressive man, beyond history, and ..."
By: Ansel Adams - "We have nothing in our history or position to invite aggression; we have everything to ..."
By: Franklin P. Adams - "History is the sum total of things that could have been avoided. "
By: Konrad Adenauer - "History does not merely touch on language, but takes place in it. "
By: Theodor Adorno - "The first movie was mostly about George and Julia. This one is mostly about me ..."
By: Casey Affleck - "They have formed their own 4-H club - the hopeless, hysterical hypochondriacs of history. "
By: Spiro T. Agnew - "I love doing normal things - movies, shopping, going out with friends, writing, reading, taking ..."
By: Christina Aguilera - "The advent of self-government for the Iraqi people is a watershed moment in their history. "
By: Todd Akin - "We are living in the machine age. For the first time in history the comedian ..."
By: Fred Allen - "I rise today to offer a formal and heartfelt apology to all the victims of ..."
By: George Allen - "More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to ..."
By: Woody Allen - "More than any time in history mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair ..."
By: Woody Allen - "As one who loves literature, art, music and history, I've been deeply rooted in the ..."
By: Debbie Allen - "I had a minor in Russian history, and this was at the time when the ..."
By: Kevin J. Anderson - "Life is a wonderful thing to talk about, or to read about in history books ..."
By: Jean Anouilh - "It is not I who have been consigned to the bedroom of history. "
By: Corazon C. Aquino - "It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once ..."
By: Hannah Arendt - "No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that ..."
By: Hannah Arendt - "Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history ..."
By: Aristotle - "Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the ..."
By: Matthew Arnold - "I like animals. I like natural history. The travel bit is not the important bit. ..."
By: David Attenborough - "In the old days... it was a basic, cardinal fact that producers didn't have opinions. ..."
By: David Attenborough - "Very few people in the history of biology could have seen as much of the ..."
By: David Attenborough - "You can only get really unpopular decisions through if the electorate is convinced of the ..."
By: David Attenborough - "May it not be that, just as we have to have faith in Him, God ..."
By: W. H. Auden - "March 11, 2004, now occupies a place in the history of infamy. "
By: Jose Maria Anzar - "Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck ..."
By: Francis Bacon - "History is strewn with the wrecks of nations which have gained a little progressiveness at ..."
By: Walter Bagehot
- "The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at ..."
By: Walter Bagehot - "Charlie Appleyard can be anybody; but I've used him sometimes in chat pieces, and these ..."
By: Derek Bailey - "All I know is that history repeats itself and people are going to want to ..."
By: John Baldacci - "American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone ..."
By: James A. Baldwin - "I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, ..."
By: James A. Baldwin - "People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them. "
By: James A. Baldwin - "All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual. "
By: Honore de Balzac - "Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless. "
By: Honore de Balzac - "My major allegiance has been to storytelling, not to history. "
By: Russell Banks - "Karate is a form of marital arts in which people who have had years and ..."
By: Dave Barry - "The Internet is the most important single development in the history of human communication since ..."
By: Dave Barry - "Without question, the greatest invention in the history of mankind is beer. Oh, I grant ..."
By: Dave Barry - "The popularity of that baby-faced boy, who possessed not even the elements of a good ..."
By: Bruce Barton - "If the history of the past fifty years teaches us anything, it is that peace ..."
By: Bernard Baruch - "History has spurts and then is steady, and then maybe even backing up a step, ..."
By: Alan Bean - "The world's battlefields have been in the heart chiefly; more heroism has been displayed in ..."
By: Henry Ward Beecher - "Throughout history there have been many other examples, similar to that of Haeckel, Huxley and ..."
By: Michael Behe - "Harrison Ford was pretty content as a carpenter who thought it would be nice to ..."
By: Dirk Benedict - "In Italy, the country where fascism was born, we have a particular relation with the ..."
By: Roberto Benigni - "If you think Abraham Lincoln became famous for inventing the town car, it is time ..."
By: Bo Bennett - "Value people on their potential, not on their history. "
By: Bo Bennett - "I know the history of the record business so well because I followed Billie Holiday ..."
By: Tony Bennett - "For all his sense of history, his large, untroubled, easy-going style of life, his unshakable ..."
By: Isaiah Berlin - "As long as conditions are safe, I hope Americans will take the opportunity to learn ..."
By: Howard Berman - "We shall have very sane reactionaries at all periods warning us to remain in the ..."
By: John Desmond Bernal - "History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by ..."
By: Ambrose Bierce - "The slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous ..."
By: Ambrose Bierce - "The Communist regime didn't consider this to be a shining moment in history and assigned ..."
By: Kathryn Bigelow - "The main thing is to make history, not to write it. "
By: Otto von Bismarck - "I had no idea that "We're Only In It For The Money" would be considered ..."
By: Jimmy Carl Black - "It was the biggest suppression of voting rights in our country's history since Jim Crow. ..."
By: Sidney Blumenthal - "It wasn't simply that Clinton created the greatest prosperity in the country's history. Or that ..."
By: Sidney Blumenthal - "It's absolutely crucial for the Democrats to have a sense of their history, of who ..."
By: Sidney Blumenthal
- "Reagan's program created the greatest deficits in the country's history - until Bush, which are ..."
By: Sidney Blumenthal - "I made more lousy pictures than any actor in history. "
By: Humphrey Bogart - "History is a set of lies agreed upon. "
By: Napoleon Bonaparte - "History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon. "
By: Napoleon Bonaparte - "Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy. "
By: Napoleon Bonaparte - "What is history but a fable agreed upon? "
By: Napoleon Bonaparte - "We are still living in the aftershock of Hiroshima, people are still the scars of ..."
By: Edward Bond - "History's lesson is to make the most of reform opportunities when they arise because they ..."
By: Christopher Bond - "My history is San Francisco. "
By: Barry Bonds - "At many points during our nation's history, there have been times - known in our ..."
By: Jo Bonner - "Never in our country's history have we witnessed a natural disaster that has impacted so ..."
By: Jo Bonner - "In a sense, words are encyclopedias of ignorance because they freeze perceptions at one moment ..."
By: Edward de Bono - "The most important lesson of American history is the promise of the unexpected. None of ..."
By: Daniel J. Boorstin - "The 2000 election exposed some ugly history in our country. "
By: Donna Brazile - "The fact of the matter is that we are facing a small group of bitter-enders ..."
By: Paul Bremer - "I've always been interested in the history of the West, our country and particularly as ..."
By: Beau Bridges - "Numerous politicians have seized absolute power and muzzled the press. Never in history has the ..."
By: David Brinkley - "The real history of consciousness starts with one's first lie. "
By: Joseph Brodsky - "The last couple of years I've had an interest in history and politics. I was ..."
By: Chester Brown - "Juneteenth is arguably one of the most important days in our country's history as well ..."
By: Corrine Brown - "On Juneteenth we should talk about our history and realize that because of it, there ..."
By: Corrine Brown - "Human cloning is the deliberate creation of a human life for utilitarian purposes. That life ..."
By: Sam Brownback - "Today, as we look back on the history of our nation and take note of ..."
By: Sam Brownback - "We are all tourists in history, and irony is what we win in wars. "
By: Anatole Broyard - "If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be ..."
By: Warren Buffett - "Whether or not the standard of living made possible by mass production and in turn ..."
By: Leo Burnett - "History is malleable. A new cache of diaries can shed new light, and archeological evidence ..."
By: Ken Burns - "I am dealing with history. "
By: Ken Burns - "I subscribe to William Faulkner's' view that history is not just about what we were ..."
By: Ken Burns - "The only time in our history, besides the swing era, when jazz was a number ..."
By: Ken Burns - "Wynton is not there in my film to promote his own ideology, whatever that may ..."
By: Ken Burns - "You can learn as much about the history from reading about the present as you ..."
By: Ken Burns - "The Thames is liquid history. "
By: John Burns
