Quotes about History

“If you only think of me during Black History Month, I must be failing as an educator and as an astrophysicist.”

“A drop of water, if it could write out its own history, would explain the universe to us.”

“I grew up in Europe, where the history comes from.”

“Time is my greatest enemy.”

“The Great Migration changed American history not just for the migrants but for all of us. It made possible American cultural milestones like the Harlem Renaissance, Chicago blues, and Motown, just to name a few.”

“One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.”

“History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.”

“It is capitalist America that produced the modern independent woman. Never in history have women had more freedom of choice in regard to dress, behavior, career, and sexual orientation.”

“Russians can give you arms but only the United States can give you a solution.”

“The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public.”

“I was reading a book... 'the history of glue' - I couldn't put it down.”

“Outside the kingdom of the Lord there is no nation which is greater than any other. God and history will remember your judgment.”

“We have a harder way to succeed in life as Serbs because of the past that we had and because of the history we had.”

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

“My heart goes out to victims and survivors of the Hurricane Katrina tragedy and to their families. This disaster will go down in history books as one of the largest natural disasters in U.S. history.”

“I want to promote the introduction of art history in primary schools and to convince the general public that, even in a period of economic crisis, arts funding is an absolute necessity at the federal, state, and local levels.”

“I want to be the best player in the history of Egyptian football.”

“The nation was awakened by that deafening shot.”

“Although... the Chief Magistrate must almost of necessity be chosen by a party and stand pledged to its principles and measures, yet in his official action he should not be the President of a party only, but of the whole people of the United States.”

“It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise.”

“Museums are managers of consciousness. They give us an interpretation of history, of how to view the world and locate ourselves in it. They are, if you want to put it in positive terms, great educational institutions. If you want to put it in negative terms, they are propaganda machines.”