Quotes of: History-repeats-itself Keyword

While we do not ask for accolades, we must defend ourselves from repeated public attacks.

Andrew Thomas

Desperately struggling, kicking down other people. Stealing the stolen, while repeating your reasons over and over. And even so, you aim for the horizon over the hills. That's why humans are so interesting...

Yana Toboso

I was deluded, and I knew it. Worse: my love for Pippa was muddied-up below the waterline with my mother, with my mother's death, with losing my mother and not being able to get her back. All that blind, infantile hunger to save and be saved, to repe...

The Goldfinch

The truth about the world, he said, is that anything is possible. Had you not seen it all from birth and thereby bled it of its strangeness it would appear to you for what it is, a hat trick in a medicine show, a fevered dream, a trance bepopulate wi...

Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West

The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.

Mao Zedong

Every past is worth condemning.

On the Advantage and Disadvantage of History for Life

These relics have a history then?' 'So much so that they are history.

The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes

It's history as it should have happened. It's history made better.

Tears of Heaven

The magic of the street is the mingling of the errand and the epiphany.

Wanderlust: A History of Walking

The kitchen is the heart of every home, for the most part. It evokes memories of your family history.

Debi Mazar

History books that contain no lies are extremely dull.

Anatole France

If you read all your history books, there are no women in them.

Caitlin Moran

History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are.

David McCullough

In the end, human history is made up of all our decisions.

David Miliband

American history contains much matter for pride and congratulation, and much matter for regret and humiliation.

Herbert Croly

Human history is highly nonlinear and unpredictable.

Michael Shermer

The history of agriculture is the history of humans breeding seeds and animals to produce traits we want in our crops and livestock.

Michael Specter

I know of no time in human history where ignorance was better than knowledge.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

An obituary should be an exercise in contemporary history, not a funeral oration.

Peter Utley

I almost fainted. There was no family history. I had been eating a vegetarian diet and I exercised.

Rue McClanahan

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

H. G. Wells