Quotes about History

“American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.”

“History is representational, while time is abstract; both of these artifices may be found in museums, where they span everybody's own vacancy.”

“Before you begin a paranormal investigation, the most important criteria you need to gather is the back history of the location.”

“I think really, China, Chinese, I think they really have a long history of civilization, rich culture.”

“The kitchen's a laboratory, and everything that happens there has to do with science. It's biology, chemistry, physics. Yes, there's history. Yes, there's artistry. Yes, to all of that. But what happened there, what actually happens to the food is all science.”

“Here I am at the turn of the millennium and I'm still the last man to have walked on the moon, somewhat disappointing. It says more about what we have not done than about what we have done.”

“I don't fight for the money. I fight for my legacy. I fight for history. I fight for my people.”

“History has not dealt kindly with the aftermath of protracted periods of low risk premiums.”

“This above all makes history useful and desirable; it unfolds before our eyes a glorious record of exemplary actions.”

“At times, we need to stop and rethink everything. Our entire history is made up of people who were sure they knew the truth yet forgot that the truth has an annoying tendency to change on occasion without us noticing it.”

“You can't erase history.”

“When the early Europeans first met Africans, at the crossroads of history, it was a respectful meeting and the Africans were not slaves. Their nations were old before Europe was born.”

“I was rejected by every agent in Australia when I was starting out. No one would represent me, because I didn't fit into a particular box, and I wasn't a trained musician or performer, but history has perhaps proven that perhaps I have something to give.”

“Every age has its own poetry; in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry.”

“I think the Lewis and Clark Expedition was the greatest undertaking in American History. I think landing a man on the moon pales next to it.”

“I was nominated at first by a group called Justice Democrats. They were trying to essentially field non-corporate candidates in the 2018 midterm election. They were looking for people with a history of community service, and my name had come across their desk, and they called.”

“Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.”

“History is just this froth of artifact production that has appeared in the last ten to fifteen thousand years. It spread across the planet very quickly. But that mind in man just goes back and back into the darkness.”

“They died hard, those savage men - like wounded wolves at bay. They were filthy, and they were lousy, and they stunk. And I loved them.”

“They were afraid, never having learned what I taught myself: Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear.”

“Barcelona is a very old city in which you can feel the weight of history; it is haunted by history. You cannot walk around it without perceiving it.”