Famous Quotes & Sayings

Henry David Thoreau

Going from--toward; it is the history of every one of us.

Gretel Ehrlich

History is an illogical record. It hinges on nothing. It is a story that changes, and has accidents, and recovers with scars.

Hugh Blair

As the primary end of History is to record truth, impartiality, fidelity and accuracy are the fundamental qualities of an Historian.

Hannah Arendt

The good things in history are usually of very short duration, but afterward have a decisive influence on what happens over long periods of time.

Guy de Maupassant

History, that excitable and unreliable old lady.

James Bryce

The chief practical use of history is to deliver us from plausible historical analogies.

James Gleick

The history of life is written in terms of negative entropy.

Jeane Kirkpatrick

History is a better guide than good intentions.

Gertrude Stein

It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.

George H. W. Bush

No generation can escape history.

Honore de Balzac

There are no principles; there are only events. There is no good and bad, there are only circumstances.

He really reveled in this kind of thing -- American history and the history of the court,

For the first time in the history of that program, Maine's number one project is ranked number one in the country.

For the first time in history, we're going to make voting fashionable,

Ella Baker

One of the things that has to be faced is the process of waiting to change the system, how much we have got to do to find out who we are, where we have come from and where we are going.

Horace Walpole

Our bells are worn threadbare with ringing for victories

Charlie Melancon

If history is any indication, then no, I don't think they're ready. They are still not prepared for doing all that's required for Katrina.

If history is an indicator, our performance throughout the state improves every year.

Gloria Steinem

The most common characteristic of women's history is to be lost and discovered, lost again and rediscovered, lost once more and re-rediscovered - a process of tragic waste and terrible silences that will continue until women's stories are a full and equal part of the human story.

Harry S Truman

The only thing new in the world is the history you don't know.

H. L. Mencken

Historian: an unsuccessful novelist.

The history of one is the history of all.

Geoffrey Ward

History can't tell us. Each generation must define itself.

Geoffrey Ward

Journalism is merely history's first draft.

I can't think of a worse time of Mexico bashing in recent history than now. Unfortunately, we don't find any positive viewpoints.

Robert Littell

I am not conventionally religious, but I am an ongoing student of the Old and the New Testament and the history of the Jewish people and the birth of Christianity.

I am now reading Cooper's Naval History which I find very interesting.

Seann William Scott

I don't want to get home from work and wonder if I could have done better if I didn't go out that night. What you're doing is going to go on the big screen and go down in history.

Clint Hurdle

He's got a history of having done it, so we can't say we're surprised.

Larry Wachtel

However, the history of the stock market is that everyone sells into the strength. So I'll be taking it one hour at a time. I'm in a show-me mood today.

Our history is written at the submicron level, in these interstellar grains.

Robert Gottlieb

'Paquita' has a patchy history, beginning in 1846, and a patchy plot.

Viktor Yanukovych

Our victory will open a new page in the history of Ukraine. We are ready to work together with any political party.