History Quotes

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

For most of American history, of course, the important religious divides were between denominations - not just between Protestants and Catholics and Jews but between Lutherans and Episcopalians and Southern Baptists and the other endlessly fine-tuned...

Hanna Rosin

NASA projects often have romantic names that link into a long history of exploration and adventure: Atlantis and Discovery, for example.

Hanna Rosin

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

Harry Reid

I have been curious about Haiti for many years. The history of the country is as fascinating as it is turbulent.

Henry Rollins

Nothing moves me more than the history of the United States.

Henry Rollins

Russia is tough. The history, the land, the people - brutal.

Henry Rollins

When you start out, you're not really aware. I didn't have a sense of photographic history.

Herb Ritts

Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph.

Haile Selassie

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

Howard Schultz

An hour or two spent in writing from dictation, another hour or two in reading aloud, a little geography and a little history and a little physics made the day pass busily.

Hudson Stuck

The notion that Western religions are more rigid than those of Asia is overdrawn. Ours is the most permissive society history has ever known - almost the only thing that is forbidden now is to forbid - and Asian teachers and their progeny play up to ...

Huston Smith

The Marine Corps is the Navy's police force and as long as I am President that is what it will remain. They have a propaganda machine that is almost equal to Stalin's.

Harry S Truman

There is nothing new in the world except the history you do not know.

Harry S Truman

This is the worst President ever. He George W. Bush is the worst President in all of American history.

Helen Thomas

I'm covering the worst president in American history.

Helen Thomas

The White House used to belong to the American people. At least that's what I learned from history books and from covering every president starting with John F. Kennedy.

Helen Thomas

It is remarkable how closely the history of the apple tree is connected with that of man.

Henry David Thoreau

The main essentials of a successful prime minister are sleep and a sense of history.

Harold Wilson

Many of our young people spend four years getting very expensive college degrees. But our universities fail them and the nation if they continue to graduate students with expertise in biochemistry, mathematics or history without teaching them to thin...

Heather Wilson

Human history in essence is the history of ideas.

H. G. Wells