Quotes of: Contemporary-history Keyword

Part of what I enjoy about the theatre and acting is that sense of history.

Liev Schreiber

Our national history has so often filled us with bitterness and the feeling of helplessness.

Lech Walesa

Whatever glory belongs to the race for a development unprecedented in history for the given length of time, a full share belongs to the womanhood of the race.

Mary McLeod Bethune

Never in the history of the United States have we cut back on troops when we've been at war.

Michele Bachmann

History shows that Americans believe in doing the right thing.

Michael Franti

Proper history teaching is being crushed under the weight of play-based pedagogy which infantilises children, teachers and our culture.

Michael Gove

The need for raising the awareness of this shameful chapter in U.S. history is more apparent than ever.

Michael M. Honda

Surveillance changes history. We know this through examples of corrupt presidents like Nixon.

Mikko Hypponen

For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders.

Margaret Mead

I know about technology, about research, scientific applications, culture, civilization, differences between nations of the world, the nature of history.

Mohammed Morsi

Religion has caused more misery to all of mankind in every stage of human history than any other single idea.

Madalyn Murray O'Hair

There are still many causes worth sacrificing for, so much history yet to be made.

Michelle Obama

Woody Allen said that 95% of history is explained as a man trying to impress a woman. And that's true in my life.

Mitt Romney

I take the world very personally. I take history personally; I want to place myself in the larger context.

Marianne Wiggins

Empires inevitably fall, and when they do, history judges them for the legacies they leave behind.

Noah Feldman

As history has shown, pure science research ultimately ends up applying to something. We just don't know it at the time.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

I think one's history and past is important at a certain time in your life, especially as an artist, just to try to hone in on that.

Olivia d'Abo

Properly speaking, history is nothing but the crimes and misfortunes of the human race.

Pierre Bayle

I'm a Larry David fan, right? And it seems to me that Jewish history from the Talmud on has been a self-deprecating, self-critical kind of humor.

Peter Eisenman

I will try to work for greater reconciliation, cooperation and peace in North East Asia based on correct perception of history.

Park Geun-hye

Biography is a very definite region bounded on the north by history, on the south by fiction, on the east by obituary, and on the west by tedium.

Philip Guedalla