1,003 Quotes Regarding History


You're going to relegate my history to a month.
Morgan Freeman

But look, I was born in 1956, the peak year for births in US history. I think I'm very representative of many of the thought processes my generation have been through and, by and large, people of my age have had their imprint planted on the consciousness of western society for a long time.
Tom Hanks

I think feminists are unaware of the tremendous extent of the role of women in history.
Vivienne Westwood

I don't have space to enter into the examples or the history of this, so I'm left with having to make the bold statement that culture is extinct.
Vivienne Westwood

In history people dressed much better than we do today.
Vivienne Westwood

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

My face has changed with the years and has enough history in it to give audiences something to work with.
Jeanne Moreau

If history is a guide, a victory for Obama means he faces the prospect of a second term dogged by scandal or inertia.
Ron Fournier

Part of the problem is voters know relatively little about Romney. And some of what they know about him complicates his task: Romney has a history of flip-flopping on issues, he's extraordinarily wealthy, and he can be tone-deaf about what moves voters. He just doesn't seem comfortable in his skin.
Ron Fournier

I normally ignore the History Channel.
Diablo Cody

Life moves fast. As much as you can learn from your history, you have to move forward.
Eddie Vedder

History and experience tell us that moral progress comes not in comfortable and complacent times, but out of trial and confusion.
Gerald R. Ford

The institution of chivalry forms one of the most remarkable features in the history of the Middle Ages.
Horatio Alger

Science cannot tell theology how to construct a doctrine of creation, but you can't construct a doctrine of creation without taking account of the age of the universe and the evolutionary character of cosmic history.
John Polkinghorne

It is sometimes very hard to tell the difference between history and the smell of skunk.
Rebecca West

When you think of how history is revealed, we know certain things to be facts at certain periods of time, which turn out not to be so factual as time marches on.
John Malkovich

Texas was such a welcoming place, and with its unbelievable history and tradition, it's extra special to be a part of that.
Ricky Williams

Over the objections, where they sound like squealing pigs, over the objections of Romney and all his allies, we passed some of the toughest Wall Street regulations in history, turning Wall Street back into the allocator of capital it always has been and no longer a casino. And they want to repeal it.
Joe Biden

There's a lot of revisionist history that goes on these days about Iraq.
Joe Biden

I graduated from the University of Delaware with a double major in history and political science.
Joe Biden