History Quotes

Let's not forget that the Paralympics, just like the Olympics, are built on a rich history.

Stella Young

Very few cities in the NHL have the history or the following of the Detroit Red Wings.

Steve Yzerman

All of this got me thinking about the history of the westward expansion, and got me to wondering how the exploration of the Solar System would be changed if there were an indigenous presence out there.

Sarah Zettel

Often the presence of mind and energy of a person remote from the spotlight decide the course of history for centuries to come.

Stefan Zweig

In history, the moments during which reason and reconciliation prevail are short and fleeting.

Stefan Zweig

In Italy, there are so many significant architectural structures in history such as the Pantheon in Rome, or the Duomo.

Tadao Ando

History does not merely touch on language, but takes place in it.

Theodor Adorno

Until the company believes in itself, AOL didn't have its own space and identity in the marketplace. The opportunity is to get out from under the negative history and figure out the value AOL offers for consumers and for publishers and advertisers.

Tim Armstrong

The advent of self-government for the Iraqi people is a watershed moment in their history.

Todd Akin

In the end, for all of Obama's grand rhetoric on ridding the world of nuclear weapons, history has doomed him to preside over the emergence of two rogue nuclear regimes (North Korea and Iran).

Thomas P.M. Barnett

There's something quite exciting when you have a history with somebody and you see them do new and different things.

Tim Burton

Clinton passed his first budget without a single Republican vote in either the House or the Senate. Before it led to the longest economic expansion in U.S. history, it led to a Democratic defeat in the 1994 midterms.

Tina Brown

I guess if I weren't an actor, I'd be a history professor.

Tom Berenger

We, therefore, here in Britain stand shoulder to shoulder with our American friends in this hour of tragedy, and we, like them, will not rest until this evil is driven from our world.

Tony Blair

History, a distillation of rumour.

Thomas Carlyle

I wanted to be a part of the Disney history.

Tia Carrere

This is a Disney animated feature; it's eternal, it's history. What's there to think about'

Tia Carrere

The earliest known writing probably emerged in southern Mesopotamia around 5,000 years ago, but for most of recorded history, reading and writing remained among the most elite human activities: the province of monarchs, priests and nobles who reserve...

Tom Chatfield

Presidents always want to do nice, noble, long-run things, and Congress is less keen to do so. We've seen that throughout the history of this country.

Tyler Cowen

Irish fiction is full of secrets, guilty pasts, divided identities. It is no wonder that there is such a rich tradition of Gothic writing in a nation so haunted by history.

Terry Eagleton

It is in Rousseau's writing above all that history begins to turn from upper-class honour to middle-class humanitarianism. Pity, sympathy and compassion lie at the centre of his moral vision. Values associated with the feminine begin to infiltrate so...

Terry Eagleton