History Quotes

Gardeners instinctively know that flowers and plants are a continuum and that the wheel of garden history will always be coming full circle.

Francis Cabot Lowell

We criticize, copy, patronize, idolize and insult but we never doubt that the U.S. has a unique position in the history of human hopes.

Ferdinand Mount

I often wonder what I will be remembered in history for. Scholar? Military hero? Builder?

Ferdinand Marcos

History should not be left to the historians. Rather, be like Churchill. Make history, and then write it.

Ferdinand Marcos

I find that other countries have this or this, but Italy is the only one that has it all for me. The culture, the cuisine, the people, the landscape, the history. Just everything to me comes together there.

Frances Mayes

France is delighted at this new opportunity to show the world that when one has the will one can succeed in joining peoples who have been brought close by history.

Francois Mitterrand

You can latch onto theological ideas that are, in fact, not accurate, and refuse to let them go. I think we've seen this a few times in church history.

Frederica Mathewes-Green

People didn't vote left or right in the election. They voted for putting an end to all the primitive political history.

Fatos Nano

In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary.

Friedrich Nietzsche

I've been knocked down more than any heavyweight champion in history.

Floyd Patterson

I feel like the history between Israel and Palestine has a lot in common with the history between India and Pakistan.

Freida Pinto

The ultimate vision is to instate in the Muslim world the notion of multiculturalism, which is part of our heritage and history, part of the fundamental, mainstream ideals of Islam.

Feisal Abdul Rauf

Throughout U.S. history, competent public investments have been an essential complement to private investments - from the Louisiana Purchase, to land-grant colleges, to the Interstate Highway System, to the Internet.

Felix Rohatyn

The point in history at which we stand is full of promise and danger. The world will either move forward toward unity and widely shared prosperity - or it will move apart.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

History is cyclical, and it would be foolhardy to assume that the culture wars will never return.

Frank Rich

Looking back at my high school years, I'm struck by how slowly history can move.

Frank Rich

Irish people are educated not only about artistry but local history.

Fiona Shaw

Like a lot of Irish households we read a lot of Irish history. It was almost Soviet, raising the next generation with a mythic view of their history.

Fiona Shaw

I have three degrees in history and only one in law, but since I came back to specialize in constitutional law where history is so essentially a part and an explanation of much that exists, the two disciplines blended very well.

Frank Scott

The history of the world is the world's court of justice.

Friedrich Schiller