Quotes about History

“You don't change the course of history by turning the faces of portraits to the wall.”

“You can't live in history. You've got to build for the future.”

“For me, poetry is a situation - a state of being, a way of facing life and facing history.”

“Human history in essence is the history of ideas.”

“The lesson of history is that you do not get a sustained economic recovery as long as the financial system is in crisis.”

“History picks interesting messengers.”

“The arrow of time doesn't move forward forever. There's a phase in the history of the universe where you go from low entropy to high entropy. But then, once you reach the locally maximum entropy you can get to, there's no more arrow of time.”

“Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.”

“I enjoy gigging in industrial towns. It seems to be where I go down the best. Somewhere where they have a history of manufacturing, they're my favourite places to play.”

“Why is 'Game of Thrones' the most pirated show in the history of TV? Because people can't get it fast enough, that's why.”

“Governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deducted from it.”

“The net's future is far from assured, and history offers much warning. Within a few decades of Gutenberg's creation, princes and priests moved to restrict the right to print books.”

“If change is to come, it must come from the working class. That's why telling their story is important. That's why knowing our history is important.”

“Food for us comes from our relatives, whether they have wings or fins or roots. That is how we consider food. Food has a culture. It has a history. It has a story. It has relationships.”

“My Native American heritage was not embraced by our family, and we grew up African-American, so I didn't have a lot of access or history to that line of my family.”

“People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history.”

“As for sex, well, I mean sex is a perfectly respectable subject as far as Shakespeare is concerned. I mean, all history is love and violence.”

“History is, in its essentials, the science of change. It knows and it teaches that it is impossible to find two events that are ever exactly alike, because the conditions from which they spring are never identical.”

“To people who remember JFK's assassination, JFK Jr. will probably always be that boy saluting his father's coffin.”

“I'm the biggest fighter in the history of the sport. If you don't believe it, check the cash register.”

“I really discovered I had thyroid disease by accident. My son was having some health concerns, and as I filled out his patient history I noticed I had a lot of similar symptoms. I mentioned it to the doctor, and he ran blood work and finally an ultrasound of my thyroid.”