Quotes about History

“History has proven that each generation of Howard graduates will forge the way forward for our country and our world.”

“Google is arguably one of the greatest inventions. The search engine is one of the greatest inventions in human history.”

“History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living.”

“We fear the arrival of immigrants that we have drawn here with the wealth we stole from them. For much of the rest of the world we must be the focus of bitter amusement, characters in a satire we don't understand. It is British people that don't learn languages, or British history. Britain is the true scrounger, the true criminal.”

“The artist's job is to be a witness to his time in history.”

“Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.”

“We are a country of Newton, Hodgson, and Turing. Ours is a country of ideas, invention and discovery and is truly a national history.”

“The history of art is the history of revivals.”

“All the lessons of history in four sentences: Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad with power. The mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly small. The bee fertilizes the flower it robs. When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.”

“It's a very good historical book about history.”

“In the long course of history, having people who understand your thought is much greater security than another submarine.”

“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.”

“In history as in human life, regret does not bring back a lost moment and a thousand years will not recover something lost in a single hour.”

“We awoke one morning in September, and the world lurched on its axis.”

“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.”

“History is malleable. A new cache of diaries can shed new light, and archeological evidence can challenge our popular assumptions.”

“Some may remember, if you have good memories, that there used to be a concept in Anglo-American law called a presumption of innocence, innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Now that's so deep in history that there's no point even bringing it up, but it did once exist.”

“A lot of young players don't really know much about the history of the game and a lot of them are missing out on what the game is all about, especially the whole concept of sportsmanship and teamwork.”

“As a state we are so uniquely positioned in so many ways. Our geography, our placement in the country, and our history positions us to be the state that propels energy efficiency as an industry.”

“Malaysia is a country unlike any other: Full of promise and fragility. Its history, cultural and religious diversity make it a rich, compelling and surprising land.”

“Empires inevitably fall, and when they do, history judges them for the legacies they leave behind.”