History Quotes

History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.

Edward Gibbon

It's been argued that of all the animals humans have domesticated, the horse is the most important to our history. For thousands of years, horses were our most reliable mode of transportation.

Elton Gallegly

History in its broadest aspect is a record of man's migrations from one environment to another.

Ellsworth Huntington

History simmers beneath the surface in more communities than just Ferguson.

Eric Holder

I try hard to convince them it's important - but there's a history of discomfort with minorities voting in some parts of this country, so most especially the older people have to get accustomed to it.

Eddie Bernice Johnson

He presented himself as the friend to Main Street America, and yet that aw-shucks persona ended up packaging policies and programs that were at times deeply injurious to the very people he swore to serve. After all, Reaganomics set in motion one of t...

Eugene Jarecki

If you listen to Giuliani, it's like nobody did anything to improve the city except him. I'm not part of the history. Bloomberg's not part of the history. It's like, he did it. He's the only one. That's why he's a little crazy.

Ed Koch

I think it's important to recognise that 'The Da Vinci Code' opened up a vast new audience for a general readership interested in historical detective stories and research into history.

Elizabeth Kostova

Seldom in the history of medicine has the recognition of the most effective cure followed as swiftly on the heels of the discovery of a disease as the establishment of the complete effectiveness of iodothyrin and thyroidin followed the recognition of...

Emil Theodor Kocher

Too much detail can bog down any story. Enough with the history of gunpowder, the geology of Hawaii, the processes of whaling, and cactus and tumbleweed.

Edward M. Lerner

Throughout this country's history there have of course been systematic efforts to create an official underclass.

Eric Liu

I think I'm the only actor in the history of film who got to slap Sam Jackson on the face and butt and lived to tell about it.

Eugene Levy

Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.

Edward R. Murrow

The lessons of history would suggest that civilisations move in cycles. You can track that back quite far - the Babylonians, the Sumerians, followed by the Egyptians, the Romans, China. We're obviously in a very upward cycle right now, and hopefully ...

Elon Musk

On the contrary, history generally confirms that the more conscious and the better you are organized in vanguard organizations, the more constructively you operate in the mass organizations of the working class.

Ernest Mandel

When we look at history, we see history is made up of the heroes of their times. Yet, somehow we miss this when we put on the lens of the Scriptures.

Erwin McManus

There is no reason to repeat bad history.

Eleanor Holmes Norton

I know every note in every song, the whole history of it, even parts that were there and are gone.

Enya

Wont to unlearn from history, we aptly repeat even its most brazen mistakes.

Eskinder Nega

I've been in the director's chair for 'Battlestar Galactica' since its first season. I directed the only comedy that's ever been done in Galactica history.

Edward James Olmos

The military operation in Lebanon was the most successful military operation in recent Israeli history. Many in Israel don't recognise that.

Ehud Olmert