Quotes about History

“Statutes authorizing unreasonable searches were the core concern of the framers of the 4th Amendment.”

“The greatest films ever made in our history were cut on film, and I'm tenaciously hanging on to the process. I just love going into an editing room and smelling the photochemistry and seeing my editor wearing mini-strands of film around his neck.”

“The truth is that the history of Mexico is a history in the image of its geography: abrupt and tortuous. Each historical period is like a plateau surrounded by tall mountains and separated from the other plateaus by precipices and divides.”

“Well, when I was fifteen years old I worked in a lingerie store and that's how I feel in love with vintage lingerie because I wanted to know the history of it.”

“Blood alone moves the wheels of history.”

“Your brain develops depending on your individual history. What has gone on in your own brain and its consciousness over your lifetime is not repeatable, ever - not with identical twins, not even with conjoined twins.”

“History repeats itself, and that's one of the things that's wrong with history.”

“The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.”

“If you have autism in the family history, you still vaccinate. Delay it a bit, space them out.”

“As an immigrant, I appreciate, far more than the average American, the liberties we have in this country. Silence is a big enemy of morality. I don't want our blunders in history to get repeated.”

“That human behavior is more influenced by things outside of us than inside. The 'situation' is the external environment. The inner environment is genes, moral history, religious training.”

“Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.”

“I'm a good son, a good father, a good husband - I've been married to the same woman for 30 years. I'm a good friend. I finished college, I have my education, I donate money anonymously. So when people criticize the kind of characters that I play on screen, I go, 'You know, that's part of history.'”

“God will use whatever he wants to display his glory. Heavens and stars. History and nations. People and problems.”

“Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.”

“The history of mankind is a history of war.”

“Love is the whole history of a woman's life, it is but an episode in a man's.”

“I am a nationalist, and a Pan-Africanist, first and foremost. I was well grounded in history before ever taking a history course. I did not spend much formal time in school - I had to work.”

“History is the story of events, with praise or blame.”

“The 21st century is going to be the American century. Because we lead not only by the example of our power, but by the power of our example. That is the history of the journey of America.”

“My countrymen: we have reached a turning point in our history. The choice is yours. Shall we venture into this brave new world, bright with possibilities, or retreat to the safety of our familiar but sterile past? I am for crossing the frontier.”