History Quotes

It's just a great school and they have a history of developing big men. Georgetown is definitely a great option for me.

Nerlens Noel

We know that golf is an ancient game with great history and tradition, but our golf is only 10 years old so don't judge us too harshly.

Nursultan Nazarbayev

It is the great sadness of our species that we have not found a way to eliminate the conflict and to eliminate violence as a device to resolve our conflicts throughout the entire history of the human race.

Neale Donald Walsch

Consider the bloody history of Europe: there was a great aspiration for high culture, yet this very same culture was shaped by brutality and barbarism.

Ori Gersht

I'm going down in history with Star Trek. It's a great feeling.

Persis Khambatta

All great political families have myths: stories they tell themselves about how history happened.

Peggy Noonan

The history of thought may be summed up in these words: it is absurd by what it seeks and great by what it finds.

Paul Valery

On 9/11, 2001, the Navy stood at 316 ships. By 2008, after one of the great military buildups in American history, we were at 278 ships and had 49,000 fewer sailors.

Ray Mabus

Once you get into this great stream of history, you can't get out.

Richard M. Nixon

Today, as we look back on the history of our nation and take note of how far we have come as a people, we are reminded that we owe a great debt to those who fought valiantly for the freedoms that we easily take for granted.

Sam Brownback

Young people have been at the forefront of every great social movement in our country's history.

Sherrod Brown

I think the whole DVD craze has provided opportunities for material that, for those interested in it, explains the whole history and background in getting a film made, which is great.

Steven Bauer

One of the immutable patterns of history is the rise and fall of great powers. Those that survive are the ones that adapt as the world changes.

Stephen Kinzer

The question I'm always asking myself is: are we masters or victims? Do we make history, or does history make us? Do we shape the world, or are we just shaped by it? The question of do we have agency in our lives or whether we are just passive victim...

Salman Rushdie

I think we fool ourselves and really negate a great deal of history if we think that the oral history of poetry is shorter than the written history of poetry. It's not true. Poetry has a longer oral tradition than it does written.

Saul Williams

No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.

Thomas Carlyle

History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.

Thomas Carlyle

If you have a great product but no one knows about it, it's history.

Tony Fernandes

My father, John Steinbeck, was a man who held human history in great reverence, and in particular the biographies of those people who had risked their lives, their fortunes, and their worldly honor to defend the rights and prerogatives of those who w...

Thomas Steinbeck

We are now in the Me Decade - seeing the upward roll of the third great religious wave in American history.

Tom Wolfe

No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history.

William Hazlitt