Best History Quotes

Like almost every truly horrible thing that has ever happened in the history of our world, the end also began with a kiss. — Dennis Sharpe

The society whose citizens are willing to stand and fight is the one with the best chance of surviving long enough for history to even notice. — Orson Scott Card

Those that innovate the future understand history the best. — Rick Warren

The best and only true history we have. Everyone interested in creative writing should know this book. — Tony Ardizzone

Ancient history, besides the still unequalled excellence of the writers, is the best instrument for cultivating the historical sense. — Goldwin Smith

History says that I'm one of the best pound-for-pound, and I won't stop until I'm number one. — Sergio Martinez

With the history of us, a book wouldn't necessarily be the best thing. — Keisha Buchanan

And what lesson can we draw from Volantene history?"
"If you want to conquer the world, you best have dragons. — George R R Martin

There's a history of English literature where the best boils to the top, and Jane Austen stands right at the top of that. — JJ Feild

This is an awesome time to be a knowledge seeker, no better time, but it's also the best time in history to be a complete idiot. — David Weinberger

You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know. — George Eliot

And Christian compassion is another factor that made the West the best civilization in history. Let us examine it next. — Vishal Mangalwadi

History at its best is vicarious experience. — Edmund Morgan

There's power in stories, though. That's all history is: the best tales. The ones that last. Might as well be mine. — Varric Tethras

History at its best is a gritty, dirty business. — Sara Sheridan

A helluva athlete, the best ever to play his position in the history of the game. — Al Davis

Over the very long term, history shows that the chances of any business surviving in a manner agreeable to a company's owners are slim at best. — Charlie Munger

We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last. — John F. Kennedy

The game of history is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of the majority in the middle. — Eric Hoffer

British garden history is best understood as a small incident in the histories of ideas, design and technology. — Tom Turner

One of the best introductions to the history and ideas of Calvinism, packed with insight and wisdom. — Alister E. McGrath

This is the best day in the history of the world, even though yesterday that seemed an impossibility. — Jack Kent Cooke

I sometimes lie awake at night and try to imagine what would be the best period in history to spend one's seventy-odd years. — Michael Dirda

Life will be empty without great stories to read. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Michael Jordon may have been the best basketball player in history, but he couldn't have won six NBA titles without a team. — Mark E. Hyman

One of the best ways to celebrate righteous history is to make more of it, make more righteous history! — Spencer W. Kimball

[ ... ] Because I want your first kiss to be the best first kiss in the history of first kisses. — Colleen Hoover

I'm not the best player in the history of tennis. I think I'm amongst the best. That's true. That's enough for me. — Rafael Nadal

History teaches us that self-proclaimed authority makes the most mistakes. And is the best at covering them up." The — Zygmunt Miloszewski

No player in baseball history worked harder, suffered more, or did it better than Andre Dawson. He's the best I've ever seen. — Ryne Sandberg

To those of you who seek lost objects of history, I wish you the best of luck. They're out there, and they're whispering. — Clive Cussler

Mourinho is the best coach in the history of football. — Mario Balotelli

Neuer is one of the best goalkeepers in history. — Pep Guardiola

I've always been drawn to writing historical characters. The best stories are the ones you find in history. — Tony Kushner

I've always been privileged to play for Coach Belichick, who I've always said is the best coach in the history of the league. — Tom Brady

The best word to describe Albert Belle during the mid-1990s is "prolific." The man could flat hit. — Tucker Elliot

History is the only true teacher, the revolution the best school for the proletariat. — Rosa Luxemburg

She was probably the best-looking almost-criminal in the history of girls who were about to go to prison. — Sara Shepard

The best benefit we derive from history is the enthusiasm it excites. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

If I was gay, I would be the best gay of all history. — Julio Iglesias

Of all our studies, it is history that is best qualified to reward our research. — Malcolm X

Nadal's the best player in history on [clay], and he is one of the best-ever players that played this game. — Novak Djokovic

Culture is the best society has to offer...How can we pass on civilization to those who do not value civilization. (Terrence Rattigan) — Beth Fine

You see, in recent history, the Democrat party has created the illusion that their agenda and their policies are what's best for black people, — Elbert Guillory

That is the supreme value of history. The study of it is the best guarantee against repeating it. — John Buchan

History is the best guide to the future. — Bill Dedman

I've always found that the best travelers are the very same people who are intensely interested in the history and culture of their own home city. — Arthur Frommer

Most of the best music in American history was made by people with no options. — Isaac Brock

History is written by victors and, occasionally, sensationalist journalists. I mean that with the best respect. — Ray Stevenson

If you put forth a small amount of effort, you just might find your next best friend for life is of a different race than your own. — Ted Harts

Sir Alex Ferguson is one of the best managers in football history. — Tim Howard

I'm a history nerd. Actually acting's the best job for somebody who loves weird, different stuff. — Lauren Cohan

History never repeats itself; at best it sometimes rhymes. — Mark Twain

Trial by jury must be preserved. It is the best system ever invented for a free people in the world's history. — John Henry Wigmore

It is best to erase all personal history because that would make us free from the encumbering thoughts of other people — Carlos Castaneda

Just heard Paul Scholes has retired, best I've ever played against by a mile. Most technically gifted player in english history. Legend. — Joey Barton

Ronaldo is better than George Best and Denis Law, who were two brilliant and great players in the history of United. — Johan Cruijff

Just soaking up the history of the Boston Celtics has been the best thing that's happened to me as a player. — Paul Pierce

History is man's best guess as to what the past would look like if everything had happened in chronological order. — Robert Breault

Jason Witten will go down as one of the best tight ends in history. — Deion Sanders

Live your best sacred-life.
It is only one-time in history. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Biography is the best form of history. — Josh Billings

Clarence Darrow, America's best-known trial lawyer, was also one of American history's most skilled orators. — Jill Lepore

An integral part of any best friend's job is to immediately clear your computer history if you die. — Darynda Jones

The best philosophy was wrapped up in history. It was, in effect, storytelling from a particular era. The worst was the pure sort. University stuff. — Andrew Miller

Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world, and thus with the history of the human spirit. — Matthew Arnold

I have the best job in the entire history of broadcasting. — Willard Scott

Today can be better than the worse of yesterdays, but tomorrow can never replace the best of yesterdays. — Anthony Liccione

Whether you need to remember the past or not, It changes nothing but gives the best choice for the future that makes You always to remember your past. — Auliq Ice

She'd known me my whole life. It's hard to throw away history. It was like you were throwing a part of yourself. — Jenny Han

Mr. Gorbachev has apparently stumbled onto one of the best-kept secrets in recent Soviet history: Communism doesn't work. — Frank Zappa

We're going to make him the best military commander in history. And then put the fate of the world on his shoulders. — Orson Scott Card

History wasn't precisely revered for its accuracy at the best of times. — Gail Carriger

History is not what happened in the past, but the best story we can tell with the available material — Joshua Wolf Shenk

There's no point to living life unless you make history and the best way to make history is to help others. — Demi Lovato

'No one sits Baby in a corner,' one of the best lines in movie history. — Christine Quinn

The history of nations, in the sense in which I use the word, is often best studied in works not professedly historical. — Thomas B. Macaulay

I don't have the best family history heart-wise, so I really try to keep my heart strong. — Kelly Ripa

The best thing we can do with the failures of the past is to let them be history. — Gary Chapman

The best use of history is as an inoculation against radical expectations, and hence against embittering disappointments. — George Will

We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. But they've got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go. — Timothy Leary

A man will not need to study history to find out what is best for his own culture. — Henry David Thoreau

'Hamilton' is one of the best things I've ever seen on a stage, and for a guy who loves American history, hip-hop and theater, it was pure bliss. — Cory Booker

You have the best wild west rancher cowboy name in history — Kristen Ashley

We have come to Earth in this great season in the long history of mankind. It is a marvelous age - the best of all. — Gordon B. Hinckley

My great-great grandfather and I were the best of friends, although we never met — Raji Singh

I'm as good as anybody out there lyrically and conceptually and can go toe to toe with the best of them throughout history. — Coolio

The best things in history are accomplished by people who get tired of being shoved around. — Robert A. Heinlein

The wort terrorist attack in American history also brought out the best in our country ... We are United as Americans. — Barack Obama

Our best history is still poetry. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

At the Academy Awards every year, there are best-dressed stars - and worst-dressed stars. But it's the worst-dressed that go down in history. — Brad Goreski

When a man learns to love, he must bear the risk of hatred. — Masashi Kishimoto

The best chapters in our economic history are those that embrace the many, not the few. — David Cameron

I liked all their lies best, for I think they are the brightest part of anybody's history. — William Kennedy

Racism is not an excuse to not do the best you can. — Arthur Ashe

You killed more people than anybody in history."
"Be the best at whatever you do, that's what my mother always told me. — Orson Scott Card

I would sum up the German character best by saying that they are the best of losers and the worst of winners. — Edmund Ironside

The best we can do is take the history we have and deal with it. — Christopher L. Bennett

My aim is to go down in history as one of the best. — Cristiano Ronaldo

You can't make history all the time, Dougie.
Sometimes the best you can do is make money. — James Ellroy