History Quotes

I got interested in palaeontology and vertebrate history - sparked by books on human evolution - then vertebrate evolution. Studying with palaeontologists kindled my interest in fieldwork.

Greg Graffin

Governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deducted from it.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

World history is a court of judgment.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

I have a history of eating disorders but, as a mother, you think of being an example to your child. I'm so much more balanced than I was.

Geri Halliwell

I heard the Beatles and the Stones, and Mom bought me an electric guitar. I played lead for four years and then switched to bass. One day someone suggested that I should sing, so I sheepishly stepped up to the microphone and the rest is rock history.

Glenn Hughes

Can't disagree with the need for a grasp of history.

Gwen Ifill

The very concept of history implies the scholar and the reader. Without a generation of civilized people to study history, to preserve its records, to absorb its lessons and relate them to its own problems, history, too, would lose its meaning.

George F. Kennan

I don't plan ahead; each book finds me. History itself, the resonance of the past with the present, is the common denominator in all of them.

Guy Gavriel Kay

China's history is marked by thousands of years of world-changing innovations: from the compass and gunpowder to acupuncture and the printing press. No one should be surprised that China has re-emerged as an economic superpower.

Gary Locke

The planet will adapt to anything. Maybe we should start to use the heart and the brain that we've been given to organize ourselves. Because if we keep screwing up things, we may be just passing by in the history of the planet.

Guy Laliberte

For most of human history, the main goal of states has been to conquer land and to achieve glory for their rulers, usually at others' expense. Then in recent decades it was all about GDP. It's only in very recent history that rulers have been willing...

Geoff Mulgan

I think it was my study of history that convinced me that the Democratic Party was more on the side of the average American.

George McGovern

Memoirs are the backstairs of history.

George Meredith

Everything was going my way. I was happily marching into the history books. Then it all just fell apart.

George Michael

Over the years, more than one reviewer has described my fantasy series, 'A Song of Ice and Fire', as historical fiction about history that never happened, flavoured with a dash of sorcery and spiced with dragons. I take that as a compliment.

George R. R. Martin

Do you really believe that the Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory, plans to be a loser in history?

Gary North

During the 1990s, San Francisco lived through one of the most intense economic booms of its history.

Gavin Newsom

If we win, we'll make history, and I'll serve you on the Agriculture Committee.

George Nethercutt

It would be unwise for the modern Republican Party to come across as hostile to immigration. That has been the losing position in American history for 200 years.

Grover Norquist

At the Oscars, if you didn't vote for '12 Years a Slave,' you were a racist. You have to be very careful about what you say. I do have particular views and opinions that most of this town doesn't share, but it's not like I'm a fascist or a racist. Th...

Gary Oldman

There are certain moments in the history of a nation when the choices made define the decades to come.

George Papandreou