Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Harewood

When I was in South Africa, I went for dinner with some friends, and I knew more about their history than they did - it just hasn't been told.

Doc Rivers

I don't think you should ever run from history. You should learn from it and embrace it.

Hilary Mantel

The more history I learnt, the less interested I got in winning arguments and the more interested in establishing the truth.

Ed Asner

There's never been a time in history, no matter what the public thinks, when actors have been paid more than they should be.

Angelina Jolie

Homework's hard. Especially math. My kids joke with me. They tell me they have homework. I say, 'Okay.' And then I sit down and they say, 'It's math.' 'No! Not math! English, history, anything!'

Douglas Wilder

Slavery is nothing to joke about. The history of this nation's involvement with slavery is nothing to pass off in a joke.

David Christian

I think what I was after was a unifying story that could bring everything together, that could give me a sense of the whole of history.

Barry Humphries

I really feel sorry for kids who aren't interested in history - recent history, either, because it is this that made us what we are.

Seamus Heaney

History says, 'Don't hope on this side of the grave.'

The history of the tobacco industry is not a positive one.

I'm into the vampire stuff. I think it's really fascinating and interesting. There's a lot of history behind all of that, and if you look into it, it's really interesting stuff.

I think the decision to make substances like steroids from plants, rather than from animal tissues, was a landmark in the history of medicine as well as the history of chemistry.

George W. S. Trow

It is the idea of 'People' to treat its material as if it were history and, what is more, as if it were the history of a happy period.

George Vecsey

I love Boston. I love Fenway Park. I love Red Sox history. But in no way am I a Red Sox fan.

Flea

I just lucked into this weird, little obscure cameoesque film career. I just love being a part of film history.

Erik Erikson

The way you 'take history' is also a way of 'making history.'

Bill Buford

Rachael Ray is probably the most watched kitchen personality in the history of American television.

Cynthia Ozick

History ... isn't simply what has happened. It's a judgment on what has happened.

Brian Kilmeade

Without Cooperstown, you don't have baseball: Baseball is history.

Andrew Bird

Maybe it's just, I've always been to the less traveled places, in any topic, whether it's history, I always like to just choose the most obscure topic. And I don't know why I have that impulse. I can't really explain it but I've been doing that since I was a little kid.

Washington Irving

A woman's whole life is a history of the affections.

Malcolm X

History proves that the white man is a devil.

Anthony Horowitz

Throughout history, story telling was at the very beginning of life.

John Burnside

When you have a child, you think about your personal history and what you offer them as a larger narrative, and I realised I knew nothing about my father's circumstances other than what he'd told me.

When you do genealogy, you do history by accident.

There has never in human history been that many communications sources.

There has never been a single homicide in history that has been investigated to this extent.