Quotes of: Modern-history Keyword

To know the history of science is to recognize the mortality of any claim to universal truth.

Reflections on Gender and Science

The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice; their choice!

Dwight D. Eisenhower

September 11 was terrible but, if one goes back over the history of the IRA, what happened to the Americans wasn't that terrible.

Doris Lessing

During the Sixties, the Americans thought I was the greatest thing in the history of cinema.

Michael Winner

Love is never defeated, and I could add, the history of Ireland proves it.

Pope John Paul II

We must never forget that Black History is American History. The achievements of African Americans have contributed to our nation's greatness.

Yvette Clarke

The history of thought may be summed up in these words: it is absurd by what it seeks and great by what it finds.

Paul Valery

The Bible is a history book.

Amar'e Stoudemire

If writers only dared to dare, a Suetonius or a Tacitus of the Novel could exist, for the Novel is essentially the history of manners, turned into a story and a play, as is History itself often enough. And there is no other difference than this: that...

Les Diaboliques

My viewpoint, in telling the history of the United States, is different: that we must not accept the memory of states as our own. Nations are not communities and never have been. The history of any country, presented as the history of a family, conce...

A People's History of the United States

How do I define history? It's just one fucking thing after another" - Rudge

The History Boys

It's subjunctive history. You know, the subjunctive? The mood used when something may or may not have happened. When it is imagined.

The History Boys

She stood in the mirror portrait very near Margaret, close next to her, good as a mother or a friend.

The History of History

It is, as we know, the victors who write the history, especially when only the victors know how to write.

A History Of The World In 100 Objects

Many before have hailed the end of history; none have ever been right.

Inverting the Pyramid: The History of Soccer Tactics

Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both.

The Sociological Imagination

If you don't know your history, you don't know what you are talking about!

Little Miss History Travel Series

In the history of the world, we have left our footprints by our unique stories.

Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

In the history of the world, a whole story has never been told.

The Unspeakable: And Other Subjects of Discussion

President Obama is the most successful food stamp president in American history. I would like to be the most successful paycheck president in American history.

Newt Gingrich

One truth stands firm. All that happens in world history rests on something spiritual. If the spiritual is strong, it creates world history. If it is weak, it suffers world history.

Albert Schweitzer