1,003 Quotes Regarding History


There's a difference between knowing what's on the page in a history book and actually feeling that page have curves and valleys.
Garth Brooks

It's a required part of your film history to know who Woody is. His movies are so wonderful, and not just funny but so insightful about human behavior.
Scarlett Johansson

God has never, in the history of mankind, allowed his name to go long offended.
David Wilkerson

With our knowledge of modern-day genetics, we realize that it was possible for God to place the potential for all people throughout history into the genes of Adam and Eve when He created them.
Walter Lang

I believe our flag is more than just cloth and ink. It is a universally recognized symbol that stands for liberty, and freedom. It is the history of our nation, and it's marked by the blood of those who died defending it.
John Thune

I know every note in every song, the whole history of it, even parts that were there and are gone.
Enya

To this wonderful page in our country's history another more glorious still will be added, and the slave shall show at last to his free brothers a sharpened sword forged from the links of his fetters.
Giuseppe Garibaldi

If the history of the past fifty years teaches us anything, it is that peace does not follow disarmament - disarmament follows peace.
Bernard Baruch

I'm the fourth generation to be in show business. It's pretty neat it's nice to have that family history.
Rachel Bilson

The path towards a free society has not been simple. There are tragic and glorious pages in our history.
Vladimir Putin

I am intrigued by inanimate objects. They're a piece of history, someone's statement and ideas of life.
Mike Mills

Life doesn't just happen it's constructed through the history of power. And that's something I am interested in and so is the art world: a world that's trying to engage socially, with a leftist slant, to work out how we got here.
Mike Mills

I must admit, maybe I am a piece of history after all.
Alan Shepard

Of course the Republicans have long wanted to privatize Social Security and destroy it. But Social Security has been the most important and valuable social program in the history of the United States.
Bernie Sanders

You have to be there not for the fame and glory and recognition and being a page in a history book, but you have to be there because you believe your talent and ability can be applied effectively to operation of the spacecraft.
Alan Shepard

I have a long-standing history of respecting artists' wishes.
Al Yankovic

Macon has such a rich musical history - and the state of Georgia, as well.
Jason Aldean

I'm not sure history has ended.
John Bolton

The history of the relationship between comedy and swimming is short indeed. Of course it is always funny when someone falls into water, but that's about it.
Arthur Smith

History is one of those marvelous and necessary illusions we have to deal with. It's one of the ways of dealing with our world with impossible generalities which we couldn't live without.
Howard Nemerov