Famous Quotes & Sayings

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 had this feeling that, somehow, we ought to be teaching not just the history of particular nations or particular regions, but the history of humanity.

David Christian

What we normally define as history doesn't interest me. It's a constraint.

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.

David Christian

Big History studies the history of everything, offering a way of making sense of our world and our role within it.

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.

The Amex has a long, often troubled, sometimes glorious history.

Chris Martin

I think we're a band with a lot of history now so it's nice to come up with something that doesn't have any history at all.

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 Motion

More people are reading poetry now than at any time in the history of the human race.

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.

Andy Kindler

I am the smartest comedian in the history of the world.

The most spectacular anti-lava effort in history occurred on the Icelandic island of Heimaey in 1973.

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.

The only thing we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history.

The phone started ringing off the hook, ... The rest is history.

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.

Steve Fisher

When you get to the tournament, people talk about you. We've been talked about not only locally and regionally but nationally. If we win, it will be the first NCAA tournament win in the history of the school, so we'll get talked about a little more.

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.