Quotes of: The-history-of Keyword

Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.

Aristotle

Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.

Barbara Ehrenreich

Just like I am obsessed with the history of fashion, I love reading about the history of makeup.

Cyndi Lauper

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.

Chris Martin

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

David Christian

Those who invoke history will certainly be heard by history. And they will have to accept its verdict.

Dag Hammarskjold

The whole westward expansion myth is seen as romantic. But it's a joke, a blot on American history.

Frank Waters

No one in human history has given as much thought to the interweaving of altered states of consciousness and religion as I have.

Huston Smith

The history of our country is not the history of any other country in the world which is either practicing advanced democracy or struggling to lay the foundation for democracy.

Ibrahim Babangida

Herbert Hoover versus Al Smith in 1928 was one of the dirtiest elections in American history.

Joseph Cummins

The idea of progress - the notion that human history is the history of human betterment - dominated the world view of the West between the Enlightenment and the First World War.

Jill Lepore

I like reading about the past. I'm definitely not a history buff, but I do read a bit of history now and again, and to do that for work is really exciting.

James McAvoy

In human history, the desire for revenge and the desire for loot have often been closely associated.

John McCarthy

The reality of life in Northern Ireland is that if you were Protestant, you learned British history, and if you were Catholic, you learned Irish history in school.

James Nesbitt

Yeah, I read history. But it doesn't make you nice. Hitler read history, too.

Joan Rivers

I did a book in 1996, an overview of black history. In that process I became more aware of a lot of the black inventors of the 19th century.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

As we celebrate Black History Month we should be grateful for the achievements they made and inspired by their legacies to continue their work.

Marty Meehan

Classes struggle, some classes triumph, others are eliminated. Such is history; such is the history of civilization for thousands of years.

Mao Zedong

If the only time you think of me as a scientist is during Black History Month, then I must not be doing my job as a scientist.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

There's a lot of history in Boston and a lot of history, obviously, in New York with all the championships.

Rafael Palmeiro

I think any period in history can be adapted into interesting fiction, as long as you approach the actual history with respect.

Seth Grahame-Smith