Quotes about History

“There are worlds of experience beyond the world of the aggressive man, beyond history, and beyond science. The moods and qualities of nature and the revelations of great art are equally difficult to define; we can grasp them only in the depths of our perceptive spirit.”

“It is remarkable how closely the history of the apple tree is connected with that of man.”

“Dad, I'm in some trouble. There's been an accident and you're going to hear all sorts of things about me from now on. Terrible things.”

“The contrafactual history is what it would have been the other way. Think of the Kennedy triumph in the missiles crisis. Worked out fine. Khrushchev blinked and so forth. The other road, you don't want to think too hard about. You could have had nuclear missiles wiping out a tenth of the globe.”

“There's something quite exciting when you have a history with somebody and you see them do new and different things.”

“If we do a little bit of insight into history, how many times have there been people doing hate discourse, blaming everything on a certain group of people. That really is the genesis of genocide, where it kind of sparks.”

“Behold, at this hour our moral history is being preserved for eternity. Processes are at work which will perpetuate our every act and word and thought.”

“On the day when man told the story of his life to man, history was born.”

“History should not be left to the historians. Rather, be like Churchill. Make history, and then write it.”

“Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds.”

“Debate and divergence of views can only enrich our history and culture.”

“Whatever can be noted historically can be found within history.”

“I understand and appreciate and respect that any time a barrier is broken or history is made, people want to celebrate it and mark it as progress.”

“The history of the past interests us only in so far as it illuminates the history of the present.”

“Those parts of history that would undermine the vision of the Left - which prevails in our education system from elementary school to postgraduate study - are not likely to get much attention.”

“Democratic nations must try to find ways to starve the terrorist and the hijacker of the oxygen of publicity on which they depend.”

“Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recourse against a sense of something missing. But the contrary is also true: language is what makes us human. It is a recourse against the meaningless noise and silence of nature and history.”

“Christians have always dissented through history... and inevitably, when persecution of free speech comes it always comes against the people who have the religious absolutes, because that's what threatens people's freedom to sin. So we're always going to be the culprits.”

“The Thames is liquid history.”

“Throughout human history, in any great endeavour requiring the common effort of many nations and men and women everywhere, we have learned - it is only through seriousness of purpose and persistence that we ultimately carry the day. We might liken it to riding a bicycle. You stay upright and move forward so long as you keep up the momentum.”

“I want to go down in the history books with what I've achieved.”