History Quotes

The history of using mice to stand in for humans in medical experiments is replete with failures.

Gary Wolf

If the aristocracy of the whole white race is so to melt in a world of the colored races of the Earth, I for one should only rejoice in such a divine triumph of the sacrificial idea in history; for it would mean the humanization of mankind.

George Edward Woodberry

Mankind is the grandest and surest artist of all, and history as it clarifies is, in pure fact, an artistic process, a creation in its fullness of the beautiful soul.

George Edward Woodberry

Since we have had a history, men have pursued an ideal of immortality.

George Wald

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 French, I think, in general, are strangely prolix in their natural history.

Gilbert White

Most filmmakers aren't very interested in history. They worry constantly that people will be bored.

Geoffrey Ward

Over the course of television's history, I think fans have done more to save shows and support them than ruin them.

Graham Yost

The institution of chivalry forms one of the most remarkable features in the history of the Middle Ages.

Horatio Alger

For most of our history, Americans enjoyed both liberty and security from foreign threats.

Harry Browne

The Secret Doctrine is the common property of the countless millions of men born under various climates, in times with which History refuses to deal, and to which esoteric teachings assign dates incompatible with the theories of Geology and Anthropol...

Helena Blavatsky

The world's battlefields have been in the heart chiefly; more heroism has been displayed in the household and the closet, than on the most memorable battlefields in history.

Henry Ward Beecher

In my view, far from deserving condemnation for their courageous reporting, the New York Times, the Washington Post and other newspapers should be commended for serving the purpose that the Founding Fathers saw so clearly.

Hugo Black

I made more lousy pictures than any actor in history.

Humphrey Bogart

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

I feel like I'm part of television history.

Henry Ian Cusick

American history contains much matter for pride and congratulation, and much matter for regret and humiliation.

Herbert Croly

The first phase of American political history was characterized by the conflict between the Federalists and the Republicans, and it resulted in the complete triumph of the latter.

Herbert Croly

The Democrats co-opted the credit for the Civil Rights Act of 1964. But if you go back and look at the history, a larger percentage of Republicans voted for that than did Democrats. But a Democrat president signed it, so they co-opted credit for havi...

Herman Cain

Whether a woman's running for office or she's supporting her husband who's running for office and she gets criticised for wearing open-toed shoes or for the colour of her coat, there's just a lot of history that you bear if you are a woman who puts h...

Hillary Clinton