History Quotes (973 quotes)

Picture of quotation author George Edward Woodberry
„Mankind is the grandest and surest artist of all, and history as it clarifies is, in pure fact, an artistic process, a creation in its fullness of the beautiful soul.“
Picture of quotation author Virginia Woolf
„The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.“
― Virginia Woolf ―
Picture of quotation author K. D. Lang
„I believe in monogamy if that's what a couple decides upon together, but it all depends on the personal history and culture of the two involved.“
― K. D. Lang ―
Picture of quotation author Benjamin Disraeli
„Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds.“
Picture of quotation author Nicolas Cage
„Personally, my interests are ancient history and ancient civilizations. In my own life, I'd like to go to places like Easter Island.“
― Nicolas Cage ―
Picture of quotation author John Sergeant Wise
„In all her history, from the formation of the federal government until the hour of secession, no year stands out more prominently than the year 1858 as evidencing the national patriotism of Virginia.“
Picture of quotation author Julia Bacha
„History was always the subject that I loved the most, and I felt it gave me the deepest sense of our humanity and who we are and where we're going.“
― Julia Bacha ―
Picture of quotation author Martin Filler
„Although prefabrication has a long history - the ancient Romans shipped pre-cut stone columns, pediments, and other architectural elements to their colonies in North Africa, where the numbered parts were reassembled into temples - the idea took on a new impetus with the technological advances of the Industrial Revolution.“
― Martin Filler ―
Picture of quotation author Louis D. Brandeis
„Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done.“
Picture of quotation author Vincent Bugliosi
„It's unbelievable, there's a book out attacking Gore, when he's the most unfortunate loser in political history.“
Picture of quotation author King Krule
„There's a lot of tension in London, but then you realize it's always been there, in its history, and that the best thing about London, that there's always been this tension.“
― King Krule ―
Picture of quotation author Joichi Ito
„For some reason, I grew up generally believing that Japan and Korea were quite friendly. I do know that there is some bad history and the extremists on both sides are unreasonable.“
― Joichi Ito ―
Picture of quotation author David Chipperfield
„We see buildings in Britain mostly as freestanding objects. They are not meant to have a dialogue with anything around them, or with history, or with ideas of any kind beyond the self-referential. What we call 'regeneration' is largely an excuse for building for maximum profit with a bit of sculptural design thrown in to catch the eye of the media.“
Picture of quotation author Barack Obama
„We've persevered because of a belief we share with the Iraqi people - a belief that out of the ashes of war, a new beginning could be born in this cradle of civilization. Through this remarkable chapter in the history of the United States and Iraq, we have met our responsibility. Now, it's time to turn the page.“
― Barack Obama ―
Picture of quotation author Michael Arrington
„Journalists are supposed to put the people first, even before themselves. Around the world and throughout history, journalists have died to get the truth out.“
Picture of quotation author Terry Eagleton
„If history, philosophy and so on vanish from academic life, what they leave in their wake may be a technical training facility or corporate research institute. But it will not be a university in the classical sense of the term, and it would be deceptive to call it one.“
― Terry Eagleton ―
Picture of quotation author Patricia Hill Collins
„Social conditions that spur large numbers of people into action are ignored in favor of a Hollywood version of history focusing on one conquering hero. Since a movement for social change is embodied in its leader, death of the leader means death of the movement.“
Picture of quotation author Josh Henderson
„I'm from Dallas, so I totally get the whole thing. I understand the history and on how big of a scale 'Dallas' was and still is.“
― Josh Henderson ―
Picture of quotation author Shahid Kapoor
„I thought I was okay in my first film, and then I was really, really bad in some films. I really cringe when I see some of my scenes. There's a scene in one film where a dog is biting me; the expressions I have made should be qualified as the most over-acted scene in the history of the cinema. The dog's expressions were more real than mine.“
― Shahid Kapoor ―
Picture of quotation author Lorrie Fair
„We knew it was going to be the biggest event scheduled in the history of women's sports, but we didn't ever fathom we would be playing before sold-out stadiums all over the country.“
― Lorrie Fair ―

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