History Quotes

You don't have to be Jewish to understand the history of Europe in the 20th century, but it helps.

Tony Judt

History always happens to us and nothing ever stays the same.

Tony Judt

My history writing was based on what I saw in strange, exotic places rather than just reading books.

Tony Judt

History is a tool used by politicians to justify their intentions.

Ted Koppel

I'm very comfortable with where history will judge me.

Ted Kulongoski

What a year to live in! Worth all other times ever known in our history or any other.

Thomas Starr King

The general consensus among historians, among the ones who can handle the fact that 'Lincoln' is, in fact, historical fiction, is that we demonstrate enormous fidelity to history and that, beyond that, we've actually contributed a line of thinking ab...

Tony Kushner

A handful of works in history have had a direct impact on social policy: one or two works of Dickens, some of Zola, 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' and, in modern drama, Larry Kramer's 'The Normal Heart.'

Tony Kushner

But poetry is a way of language, it is not its subject or its maker's background or interests or hobbies or fixations. It is nearer to utterance than history.

Thomas Lynch

All people, even secular people, are seeing books on the market like The End of History.

Tim LaHaye

However, we all share the firm belief in the triumph of humanist and progressive values that mankind has achieved during its long history of struggle and creativeness.

Tran Duc Luong

History is just this froth of artifact production that has appeared in the last ten to fifteen thousand years. It spread across the planet very quickly. But that mind in man just goes back and back into the darkness.

Terence McKenna

We are not being arrogant or complacent when we are said that our country, as a united nation, has never in its entire history, enjoyed such a confluence of encouraging possibilities.

Thabo Mbeki

I often tell people who want to write historical fiction: don't read all that much about the period you're writing about; read things from the period that you're writing about. There's a tendency to stoke up on a lot of biography and a lot of history...

Thomas Mallon

If you want to study the social and political history of modern nations, study hell.

Thomas Merton

In Paris, there has to be a presence. History becomes the most interesting when it's compared to the present. I mean there's a whole group of people that want to build new buildings that look like old buildings.

Thom Mayne

Sometimes history takes things into its own hands.

Thurgood Marshall

Al Zarqawi had a long history of terrorism. He was responsible for several bombings and beheadings in Iraq, including Pennsylvania native Nicholas Berg.

Tim Murphy

Without question, the Red Ryder BB gun is the most important gun in the history of American weaponry.

Ted Nugent

The odds are always against you no matter what your previous history is. You have to overcome the tendency to relax.

Tom Osborne

In the history of America, we've never had an energy plan. We don't even realize the resources we have available to us.

T. Boone Pickens