Quotes of: Long-history Keyword

The history of science is the saga of nature defying common sense.

Kedar Joshi

In the history of battles and wars, the massacres of civilians were the main reason of revolutions success.

M.F. Moonzajer

Drag racing has played a big role in In-N-Out's history, and it is also an important part of my family history.

Lynsi Torres

I was bused to a school in Gerritsen Beach in Brooklyn in 1972. I was one of the first black kids in the history of the school.

Chris Rock

I'm really interested in modern history, but to fulfill a History degree at Brown you have to do modern and pre-modern.

Emma Watson

The history of mankind is the instant between two strides taken by a traveler.

Franz Kafka

The history of using mice to stand in for humans in medical experiments is replete with failures.

Gary Wolf

The history of the Erie Railroad ever since 1901 has been a record of progress.

John Moody

The history of trying to start a daily where there already is one is that it has never worked.

John Morton

The 1950s and 1960s had been a period of enormous growth, the highest in American history, maybe in economic history.

Noam Chomsky

I don't know the history of my sport. I'm not like those people who know everything.

Usain Bolt

No back in the history of football was ever worth two fumbles a game.

Woody Hayes

The history of free men is never written by chance but by choice - their choice.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Kasper Gutman: These are facts, historical facts, not schoolbook history, not Mr. Wells' history, but history nevertheless.

The Maltese Falcon

The following twenty years would be the nadir of American Indian history, as the total Indian population between 1890 and 1910 fell to fewer than 250,000. (It was not until 1917 that Indian births exceeded deaths for the first time in fifty years.)

Don't Know Much about History: Everything You Need to Know about American History But Never Learned

I have seen nothing and nothing but death and destruction. Creation yes, but more death than birth. Mankind has learned nothing from their forefathers…their ancestors. It is true what they say, history does repeat itself, Delacroix and those after ...

The Dark World

It all suddenly seemed like a hopeless fight, but so what? I told myself. What does it cost you to pretend that the can change (for the better)? That history is an arc and it bends toward justice, even if it is long?

Eating Fire: My Life as a Lesbian Avenger

And out of that hopeless attempt has come nearly all that we call human history—money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery—the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happ...

Mere Christianity

There's no one place a virus goes to die - but that doesn't make its demise any less a public health victory. Throughout human history, viral diseases have had their way with us, and for just as long, we have hunted them down and done our best to wip...

Jeffrey Kluger

Ronald Reagan was long thought to be the most conservative of Republicans. And by any standard today he is the most popular Republican in modern history. Yet he raised taxes 11 times, supported a ban on assault rifles and the Brady Bill, which mandat...

Mark McKinnon

One of the core ideas of the Bible is that meaning can be found in history. The sheer act of telling and retelling stories helps us to understand God's role in the world as well as our own position in a long line of ancestors who have wrestled with s...

Bruce Feiler