Quotes of: World-history Keyword

No student of history can fail to see the moral interest of the Middle Ages, any more than an artist can fail to see their aesthetic interest.

Goldwin Smith

The euro pleases dispirited people for whom European history is not Chartres and Shakespeare but the Holocaust and the Somme. The euro expresses cultural despair.

George Will

The invention of the printing press was one of the most important events in human history.

Ha-Joon Chang

It's incredible to have been part of fashion history - my whole career has been one big highlight.

Helena Christensen

If we go back in the history of different nations, violence and the use of force are part of their heritage. These are the traditions of mankind.

Harri Holkeri

It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.

Henry James

The president's decision yesterday to set into motion the development of the hydrogen bomb... has placed us on the knife-edge of history.

Henry M. Jackson

I'm a firm believer that no matter how small an object is, you can find interesting things out about it and its history.

Henry Petroski

My Republican friends are lamenting reconciliation. But I would recommend for them to go back and look at history.

Harry Reid

Our history is based on extending the brand to categories within the guardrails of Starbucks.

Howard Schultz

There are more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible that in any profane history.

Isaac Newton

I have always been - I think any student of history almost inevitably is - a cheerful pessimist.

Jacques Barzun

I taught woman-centered childbirth classes for five years and have a particular interest in the history of childbirth practices.

Jo Beverley

More history is made by secret handshakes than by battles, bills and proclamations.

John Barth

When I was 17, I came to the U.S. to study Middle Eastern history and politics at Columbia University.

Julia Bacha

There is an odd sense of responsibility attached to appearing in a drama about a real piece of history. A work of fiction is fun.

James D'arcy

Neither current events nor history show that the majority rule, or ever did rule.

Jefferson Davis

Few men in our history have ever obtained the Presidency by planning to obtain it.

James A. Garfield

That was the first time ever in history that anybody got Special Guest Star. I started that whole nonsense.

Jonathan Harris

I look back into past history, the stored experiences or products of the imagination. I look no further forward than the evening.

Jerzy Kosinski

In schools with a history of chaos, the teacher who can keep the classroom calm becomes virtually indispensable.

Jonathan Kozol