History Quotes

Western history has been a history of deed done, actions performed and results achieved.

Arthur Erickson

I have always felt that this story is universal. When I began to understand the details of the history, I felt that the most compelling aspect was not what happened, but what continues to happen and how it is denied.

Atom Egoyan

The history of mankind is confined within a limited period, and from every quarter brings an intimation that human affairs have had a beginning.

Adam Ferguson

I don't really write plots. I use history as the engine that drives everything.

Alan Furst

The Medicare Part D prescription drug bill, which might be the most corrupt piece of legislation in history, was a huge giveaway of taxpayer funds to the big pharmaceutical companies.

Al Franken

History books that contain no lies are extremely dull.

Anatole France

In many ways, a degree in the history of ideas is the ideal training for an aspiring writer.

Anne Fortier

I like storytelling movies and more than that I like historical movies; and I think someday I'll definitely make a movie about the past 50 years history.

Asghar Farhadi

History has not dealt kindly with the aftermath of protracted periods of low risk premiums.

Alan Greenspan

When you go back and look at American history, it's not terribly different from Canadian history. If you weren't self-reliant on the prairie, you wouldn't survive.

Alan Greenspan

The Bush administration will go down in history as the Torture Team.

Alex Gibney

In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas.

Alfred Whitney Griswold

Civil disobedience has an honourable history, and when the urgency and moral clarity cross a certain threshold, then I think that civil disobedience is quite understandable, and it has a role to play.

Al Gore

Putting together philosophy and children would have been difficult for most of history. But very fortunately for me, when I started graduate school there was a real scientific revolution taking place in developmental psychology.

Alison Gopnik

In most places and times in human history, babies have had not just one person but lots of people around who were really paying attention to them around, dedicated to them, cared to them, were related to them. I think the big shift in our culture is ...

Alison Gopnik

I want people to be excited about cooling towers and megasheds; they're as much part of our history as the rural barn.

Antony Gormley

The history of American agriculture suggests that you can have transformation without a master plan, without knowing all the answers up front.

Atul Gawande

History teaches that the level of unemployment is not as important as whether the rate's going down.

Austan Goolsbee

I think the tradition of well-written history hasn't been squashed out of the academic world as much in Britain as it has in the United States.

Adam Hochschild

When President Teddy Roosevelt posed for the cameras astride a massive steam shovel during construction of the Panama Canal in 1906, it was more than a simple photo op. Though the scene was clearly staged, it symbolized a crucial moment in American h...

Alan Huffman

Few characters in history are indispensable.

Albert Bushnell Hart