Quotes about History

“If we celebrate Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday at a time of presidential inaugurals, this is thanks to Ronald Reagan who created the holiday, and not to the Democratic Congress of the Carter years, which rejected it.”

“Generally speaking, historically in this country, the care of a child has been thought of as female business.”

“Anyone who believes you can't change history has never tried to write his memoirs.”

“Today is either the beginning of the end, or the end of the beginning. Today we are making history.”

“If the Philippines must remain under the control of Spain, they will necessarily have to be transformed in a political sense, for the course of their history and the needs of their inhabitants so require.”

“We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force.”

“The history of Bitcoin trading is a bubble, a correction, consolidation, and another increase. It's happened four times, and it will happen again.”

“When I came into this business, there was a bar set for me. My goal is to push it as high as I can to make my family's legacy even stronger. To add to the history that's already been created. So for me, it's a huge challenge that I'm willing to fight for every single day.”

“It's true in everything, not just in drag: To be a success, you have to understand the landscape. You have to know thyself, and you have to know your history so that you can draw from people who have figured out the equation you are faced with. It's not rocket science.”

“To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody history but to articulate it.”

“If you think you have it tough, read history books.”

“In all works on Natural History, we constantly find details of the marvellous adaptation of animals to their food, their habits, and the localities in which they are found.”

“I believe, 50 years from now, when you write history, one technology that would have changed human civilization is going to be the mobile Internet.”

“People think the earth is going to die and they have to save it. That's ridiculous. If you rid the earth of flowering plants, people would die, period. But the earth was without flowering plants for almost all of its history.”

“History has remembered the kings and warriors, because they destroyed; art has remembered the people, because they created.”

“'The Art of the Brick' is an exhibition I've done where I've taken some works of art from art history and replicated them all out of Lego bricks.”

“Nothing is more difficult than trying to correct history.”

“If we don't empower families to be able to have a quality education, then their children - for the first time in American history, truly the first time - will not have the same economic opportunities.”

“History is made every day. The challenge is getting everyone to pay attention to it.”

“Regrets are idle; yet history is one long regret. Everything might have turned out so differently.”

“History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.”