Quotes about History

“Their memory's like a train: you can see it getting smaller as it pulls away And the things you can't remember Tell the things you can't forget that History puts a saint in every dream.”

“You can't supervise your own history.”

“Thanks to television, for the first time the young are seeing history made before it is censored by their elders.”

“History is formed by the people, those who have power and those without power. Each one of us makes history.”

“Through all of history mankind has ingested psychedelic substances. Those substances exist to put you in touch with spirits beyond yourself, with the creator, with the creative impulse of the planet.”

“There is no history of mankind, there are only many histories of all kinds of aspects of human life. And one of these is the history of political power. This is elevated into the history of the world.”

“Black history won't stop no bullets.”

“Culture survives in smaller spaces - not in the history books that erect monuments to the nation's grand history but in cafes and cinema houses, village squares, and half-forgotten libraries.”

“What does the artist do? He draws connections. He ties the invisible threads between things. He dives into history, be it the history of mankind, the geological history of the Earth or the beginning and end of the manifest cosmos.”

“Do you seriously expect me to be the first Prince of Wales in history not to have a mistress?”

“After Jackie Robinson the most important black in baseball history is Reggie Jackson, I really mean that.”

“History is dependent on the new generation to write a new chapter.”

“Sometimes history takes things into its own hands.”

“The most persistent sound which reverberates through man's history is the beating of war drums.”

“Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World.”

“In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility - I welcome it.”

“Great writing can be done in biography, history, art.”

“If you look at history, innovation doesn't come just from giving people incentives; it comes from creating environments where their ideas can connect.”

“My lifestyle is a consequence of my wounds. I'm the son of my history.”

“Love is never defeated, and I could add, the history of Ireland proves it.”

“There comes a time in the life of every nation when it stands at the crossroads of history and must choose which way to go.”