History Books Quotes (31 quotes)

Picture of quotation author LaMarr Woodley
„Winning and making history is something you can't buy. Me? I'm a guy who loves history. When I'm 60 or 70, I don't want to be remembered for the money I make. I want to be in the history books.“
― LaMarr Woodley ―
Picture of quotation author Alison Weir
„In 1965, when I was fourteen, I read my first adult novel; it was a historical novel about Katherine of Aragon, and I could not put it down. When I finished it, I had to find out the true facts behind the story and if people really carried on like that in those days. So I began to read proper history books, and found that they did!“
― Alison Weir ―
Picture of quotation author Jesse Ventura
„I find that the history books that we teach our kids with are not fully truthful, in my opinion.“
― Jesse Ventura ―
Picture of quotation author Helen Thomas
„The White House used to belong to the American people. At least that's what I learned from history books and from covering every president starting with John F. Kennedy.“
― Helen Thomas ―
Picture of quotation author Ellen Tauscher
„My heart goes out to victims and survivors of the Hurricane Katrina tragedy and to their families. This disaster will go down in history books as one of the largest natural disasters in U.S. history.“
― Ellen Tauscher ―
Picture of quotation author David Strathairn
„Television and film are our libraries now. Our history books.“
Picture of quotation author Mickey Spillane
„I read all the time... I read a lot of history books.“
― Mickey Spillane ―
Picture of quotation author Mark E. Smith
„I read daft history books. Sometimes the books I read are a bit crackers or strange.“
― Mark E. Smith ―
Picture of quotation author Gene Simmons
„It's in the history books, the Holocaust. It's just a phrase. And the truth is it happened yesterday. It happened to my mother. I never met my grandmothers or my grandfathers. They were all wiped up in the gas chambers of Nazi Germany.“
― Gene Simmons ―
Picture of quotation author Richard Rorty
„I think of an intellectual as just being bookish, being interested in history books, utopian ideas, that kind of thing.“
― Richard Rorty ―
Picture of quotation author Nathaniel Philbrick
„As an author of narrative history, I read a lot of history books.“
Picture of quotation author Anna Paquin
„We all had to learn Southern accents. It wasn't a big research show. With the 'Wounded Knee' project, I locked myself in my apartment with history books so I would know what we're talking about.“
― Anna Paquin ―
Picture of quotation author Phillip Noyce
„Whites were the winners, blacks were the losers, we wrote the history books, and they didn't feature.“
― Phillip Noyce ―
Picture of quotation author Caitlin Moran
„If you read all your history books, there are no women in them.“
― Caitlin Moran ―
Picture of quotation author Alan Moore
„War never accomplishes anything. It's never going to look good in the history books. People are never going to look back and think, 'He started a lot of wars; what a great leader he was!' That's not the way it works. God knows how many more of these things we're going to need before it starts to sink in.“
― Alan Moore ―
Picture of quotation author Moliere
„All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing.“
― Moliere ―
Picture of quotation author George Michael
„Everything was going my way. I was happily marching into the history books. Then it all just fell apart.“
― George Michael ―
Picture of quotation author Colum McCann
„In a certain way, novelists become unacknowledged historians, because we talk about small, tiny, little anonymous moments that won't necessarily make it into the history books.“
― Colum McCann ―
Picture of quotation author Malcolm X
„The white man made the mistake of letting me read his history books. He made the mistake of teaching me that Patrick Henry was a patriot and George Washington - wasn't nothing non-violent about old Pat or George Washington.“
― Malcolm X ―
Picture of quotation author Bill Maher
„If you think you have it tough, read history books.“
― Bill Maher ―

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