Top history Quotes Collection - Page 6

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Image of Robert Mugabe
Was it not enough punishment and suffering in history that we were uprooted and made helpless slaves not only in new colonial outposts but also domestically.
- Robert Mugabe
Collection: History
Image of DeAndre Yedlin
I'm not a practicing Jew but my great-grandparents were. It's part of our family history.
- DeAndre Yedlin
Collection: History
Image of Jawaharlal Nehru
A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new; when an age ends; and when the soul of a nation long suppressed finds utterance.
- Jawaharlal Nehru
Collection: History
Image of Sonia Johnson
We must remember that one determined person can make a significant difference, and that a small group of determined people can change the course of history.
- Sonia Johnson
Collection: History
Image of Harry S Truman
Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.
- Harry S Truman
Collection: History
Image of Tansy Rayner Roberts
History is imperfect and biased, and it always, always has omissions. The most common omissions are the bits that the writer of that history took for granted that his readers would know.
- Tansy Rayner Roberts
Collection: History
Image of Renee Elise Goldsberry
'Hamilton' is a story about America, and the most beautiful thing about it is... it's told by such a diverse cast with a such diverse styles of music. We have the opportunity to reclaim a history that some of us don't necessarily think is our own.
- Renee Elise Goldsberry
Collection: History
Image of Haile Selassie
History teaches us that unity is strength, and cautions us to submerge and overcome our differences in the quest for common goals, to strive, with all our combined strength, for the path to true African brotherhood and unity.
- Haile Selassie
Collection: History
Image of Gulzar
It is good to be well connected with English language, literature and history, but the knowledge of our culture and roots is equally important.
- Gulzar
Collection: History
Image of Lady Gaga
History shows us that in times of people feeling like they are in need of some sort of rebellion or protests, the artists rise because the poetry we create about pain and its relationship to culture in the world begins to soothe and heal people who are feeling confused or afraid.
- Lady Gaga
Collection: History
Image of Steve Jobs
Of all the inventions of humans, the computer is going to rank near or at the top as history unfolds and we look back. It is the most awesome tool that we have ever invented. I feel incredibly lucky to be at exactly the right place in Silicon Valley, at exactly the right time, historically, where this invention has taken form.
- Steve Jobs
Collection: History
Image of Muhammad Ali
No boxer in the history of boxing has had Parkinson's. There's no injury in my brain that suggests that the illness came from boxing.
- Muhammad Ali
Collection: History
Image of Samuel L. Jackson
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.'
- Samuel L. Jackson
Collection: History
Image of James Baldwin
I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all.
- James Baldwin
Collection: History
Image of Yitzhak Shamir
We have said that Israel has had a very bad history with the United Nations, and whoever cares for himself in Israel distances himself from that Organization.
- Yitzhak Shamir
Collection: History
Image of Prince Andrew
Today is reality. Yesterday is history.
- Prince Andrew
Collection: History
Image of Ray Bradbury
If you are going to describe the history of animation, you'd look at the early Disney work, then 'Bugs Bunny,' 'Road Runner' and other Warner Brothers theatrical productions. But when you got to 'Rocky and Bullwinkle,' you'd see they were unique: They assumed you had a brain in your head.
- Ray Bradbury
Collection: History
Image of J. Robert Oppenheimer
The history of science is rich in example of the fruitfulness of bringing two sets of techniques, two sets of ideas, developed in separate contexts for the pursuit of new truth, into touch with one another.
- J. Robert Oppenheimer
Collection: History
Image of Nancy Pelosi
The American people voted to restore integrity and honesty in Washington, D.C., and the Democrats intend to lead the most honest, most open and most ethical Congress in history.
- Nancy Pelosi
Collection: History
Image of Potter Stewart
The 4th Amendment and the personal rights it secures have a long history. At the very core stands the right of a man to retreat into his own home and there be free from unreasonable governmental intrusion.
- Potter Stewart
Collection: History
Image of Arnold Schwarzenegger
Well, I think that California has had a history of always spending more money than it takes in.
- Arnold Schwarzenegger
Collection: History
Image of Hermann Hesse
Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.
- Hermann Hesse
Collection: History
Image of Horatio Alger
The institution of chivalry forms one of the most remarkable features in the history of the Middle Ages.
- Horatio Alger
Collection: History
Image of Grandma Moses
A strange thing is memory, and hope; one looks backward, and the other forward; one is of today, the other of tomorrow. Memory is history recorded in our brain, memory is a painter, it paints pictures of the past and of the day.
- Grandma Moses
Collection: History
Image of Thomas Griffith
Journalism is in fact history on the run.
- Thomas Griffith
Collection: History
Image of Ha-Joon Chang
The invention of the printing press was one of the most important events in human history.
- Ha-Joon Chang
Collection: History
Image of Doris Kearns Goodwin
I shall always be grateful for this curious love of history, allowing me to spend a lifetime looking back into the past, allowing me to learn from these large figures about the struggle for meaning for life.
- Doris Kearns Goodwin
Collection: History
Image of Shakira
I'm a closet nerd. I love to study history and visit museums.
- Shakira
Collection: History
Image of Isaac Herzog
Auschwitz will forever remain the black hole of the entire human history.
- Isaac Herzog
Collection: History
Image of Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Globalization has created this interlocking fragility. At no time in the history of the universe has the cancellation of a Christmas order in New York meant layoffs in China.
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Collection: History
Image of Dan Quayle
The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history. I mean in this century's history. But we all lived in this century. I didn't live in this century.
- Dan Quayle
Collection: History
Image of Margaret Thatcher
Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.
- Margaret Thatcher
Collection: History
Image of Fidel Castro
Condemn me. It does not matter. History will absolve me.
- Fidel Castro
Collection: History
Image of Barbara W. Tuchman
Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.
- Barbara W. Tuchman
Collection: History
Image of Harry S Truman
There is nothing new in the world except the history you do not know.
- Harry S Truman
Collection: History
Image of Vladimir Lenin
Sometimes - history needs a push.
- Vladimir Lenin
Collection: History
Image of Elizabeth Cady Stanton
The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Collection: History
Image of Khabib Nurmagomedov
I don't fight for the money. I fight for my legacy. I fight for history. I fight for my people.
- Khabib Nurmagomedov
Collection: History
Image of Thomas Sowell
Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of replacing what worked with what sounded good.
- Thomas Sowell
Collection: History
Image of Kofi Annan
More than ever before in human history, we share a common destiny. We can master it only if we face it together. And that, my friends, is why we have the United Nations.
- Kofi Annan
Collection: History
Image of Carl T. Rowan
The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history.
- Carl T. Rowan
Collection: History
Image of Joseph Stalin
History shows that there are no invincible armies.
- Joseph Stalin
Collection: History
Image of Otto von Bismarck
The main thing is to make history, not to write it.
- Otto von Bismarck
Collection: History
Image of Miquita Oliver
My dad is white, he's an art history teacher, he's very traditional.
- Miquita Oliver
Collection: History
Image of Tom Malinowski
No alliance in history has done more to prevent war, and no alliance is more rooted in the values America champions, than NATO.
- Tom Malinowski
Collection: History
Image of Virginia Woolf
For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
- Virginia Woolf
Collection: History
Image of B. C. Forbes
History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.
- B. C. Forbes
Collection: History
Image of Plato
Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.
- Plato
Collection: History
Image of Will Durant
One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
- Will Durant
Collection: History