1,003 Quotes Regarding History


I loved history because to me, history was like watching a movie.
Quentin Tarantino

No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now.
Richard M. Nixon

There are worlds of experience beyond the world of the aggressive man, beyond history, and beyond science. The moods and qualities of nature and the revelations of great art are equally difficult to define we can grasp them only in the depths of our perceptive spirit.
Ansel Adams

History repeats itself, and that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
Clarence Darrow

The people who have really made history are the martyrs.
Aleister Crowley

By failing seriously to confront the most predicable economic crisis in our nation's history, the President's policies are committing us and our children to a diminished future.
Paul Ryan

Americans are rising to the tasks of history, and they expect the same of us.
George W. Bush

No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history.
William Hazlitt

The game of history is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of the majority in the middle.
Eric Hoffer

Was it not enough punishment and suffering in history that we were uprooted and made helpless slaves not only in new colonial outposts but also domestically.
Robert Mugabe

In Jewish history there are no coincidences.
Elie Wiesel

A woman's whole life is a history of the affections.
Washington Irving

We have nothing in our history or position to invite aggression we have everything to beckon us to the cultivation of relations of peace and amity with all nations.
Franklin P. Adams

Completeness? Happiness? These words don't come close to describing my emotions. There truly is nothing I can say to capture what motherhood means to me, particularly given my medical history.
Anita Baker

Inflation is bringing us true democracy. For the first time in history, luxuries and necessities are selling at the same price.
Robert Orben

Presidents quickly realize that while a single act might destroy the world they live in, no one single decision can make life suddenly better or can turn history around for the good.
Lyndon B. Johnson

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
Will Durant

Now, there are some who would like to rewrite history - revisionist historians is what I like to call them.
George W. Bush

Religion is part of the human make-up. It's also part of our cultural and intellectual history. Religion was our first attempt at literature, the texts, our first attempt at cosmology, making sense of where we are in the universe, our first attempt at health care, believing in faith healing, our first attempt at philosophy.
Christopher Hitchens

The awareness that health is dependent upon habits that we control makes us the first generation in history that to a large extent determines its own destiny.
Jimmy Carter