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It's an idea-an idea that, according to the history expert somewhere in my left brain, was abolished in 1865.
— Neal Shusterman
A Lady with a Lamp shall stand In the great history of the land, A noble type of good, Heroic womanhood.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
All that we call sacred history attests that the birth of a poet is the principal event in chronology.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
It would be right to say that the helicopter's role in saving lives represents one of the most glorious pages in the history of human flight.
— Igor Sikorsky
The men who make history have not time to write it.
— Klemens Von Metternich
The resurrection of Jesus is rooted in history, grounded in scripture and confirmed in experience.
— Nicky Gumbel
History is the memory of a nation
— Thomas Sowell
History doesn't mean dates and wars and textbooks to me; it means the unconquerable pioneer spirit of man.
— Henry Ford
Do try The House by fresh new author, Susannah Mansfield, it's funny, sad and very different, you'll love the characters and the stories.
— Susannah Mansfield
The construction of Europe is an art. It is the art of the possible.
— Jacques Chirac
The writer of history is perhaps closer to the artist than the scholar.
— Theodor Mommsen
I prefer my history dead. Dead history is writ in ink, the living sort in blood.
— George R R Martin
The game of history is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of the majority in the middle.
— Eric Hoffer
I believe that we're all created in the image of God and we're all fallen sinners. And I think we can recognize that as we look backward in history.
— Russell D. Moore
If the only time you think of me as a scientist is during Black History Month, then I must not be doing my job as a scientist.
— Neil DeGrasse Tyson
History is what we bring to it, not just the events themselves, but how we interpret those events.
— Robert Harris
Christianity has done more to elevate the status of women than any other movement in history.
— Stasi Eldredge
History is no longer as it was for the Greeks, an anamnesis, a remembrance. It is rather a thrust into the future.
— Gustavo Gutierrez
Strangers are exciting, their mystery never ends. But, there's nothing like looking at your own history in the faces of your friends.
— Ani DiFranco
I'd like to write a history, maybe of the Reformation.
— Jane Haddam
this book, giving voice to what is so basic among men and women throughout history, I have translated it "the Quester."]
— Eugene H. Peterson
No opinion can be trusted; even the facts may be nothing but a printer's error.
— William Carlos Williams
History is not history unless it is the truth.
— Abraham Lincoln
History is not to be whitewashed "by a screening out of the importance of suffering."
— Johann Baptist Metz
The turnip cannot thrive in the tulips patch of soil.
— Jessie Burton
Winning the Revolutionary War, or the Civil War, or World War II were the turning points in our history, the sine qua non of our forward progress.
— Stephen Ambrose
If you strip the horrors of history from history, the flip side of that is you strip the nobility of rising above such horrors.
— Perry DeAngelis
Be careful. I wouldn't want anything to happen to the worst Spanish student in the history of the language."I laughed. "No problemo. — Kiersten White
The human will be the only mammal in history to fully understand that its own self inflicted extinction is well underway.
— Steven Magee
The Marshall Plan will go down in history as one of America's greatest contributions to the peace of the world.
— Harry S. Truman
Between the sands of time is a multitude of truths untold.
— Jason E. Royle
The lessons of history teach us - if the lessons of history teach us anything - that nobody learns the lessons that history teaches us.
— Robert A. Heinlein
The time is not yet ripe to say what happened. When history's ready, then we can talk about it
— Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf
The morality of art is in its very beauty.
— Gustave Flaubert
History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.Edward Gibbon — Simon Sebag Montefiore
All the gossip and craziness becomes a kind of sustained narrative which, in turn, can become history. It's scary.
— Barbara Kruger
The more history I learnt, the less interested I got in winning arguments and the more interested in establishing the truth.
— Hilary Mantel
All of us know history repeats itself, but mighty few of us recognize the repetition until too late.
— Kenneth Roberts
The birth of Christ is the central event in the history of the earththe very thing the whole story has been about. — C.S. Lewis
I see history as really cyclical in terms of the intense idealism, and the desire to create a better life outside of societal norms.
— Lauren Groff
No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
— Thomas Carlyle
No woman in the history of humanity has ever found a comfortable way of dressing herself after sex.
— Kay Hadashi
The trial of Ernst Zundel has gone down in Canadian history.
— Ernst Zundel
Truth has a resonance to it that fills the cracks where falsehoods lie.
— Rick DeStefanis
Theories are more common than achievements in the history of education.
— Richard Livingstone
The Bible is the only force known to history that has freed enitre nations from corruption while simultaneously giving them political freedom.
— Vishal Mangalwadi
The more I think you over, the more it comes home to me what an unmitigated Middle Victorian ass you are!
— H.L. Mencken
Anxiety is the essential condition of intellectual and artistic creation and everything that is finest in human history.
— Charles Frankel
History not used is nothing, for all intellectual life is action, like practical life, and if you don't use the stuff well, it might as well be dead.
— Arnold J. Toynbee
The history of using mice to stand in for humans in medical experiments is replete with failures.
— Gary Wolf
The odds are always against you no matter what your previous history is. You have to overcome the tendency to relax.
— Tom Osborne
how inevitable it was that the aristocrat would refuse his final duty - which was to step aside and vanish into history.
— Frank Herbert
Civilization - a word that simply means "living in cities ... "Excerpt From: Standage, Tom. "A History of the World In 6 Glasses. — Tom Standage
It was being written in the East that 'Sufism was formerly a reality without a name: now it is a name without a reality'.
— Idries Shah
The Thames is liquid history.
— John Burns
I almost failed drama at school. I hated it. It was all about the history of theatre.
— Brenton Thwaites
All good criticism should be judged the way art is. You shouldn't read it the way you read history or science.
— Leslie Fiedler
The United States was the first country in the history of the world to be consciously created out of an idea - and the idea was liberty.
— Nathaniel Branden
I'm of the glamorous ladies At whose beckoning history shook. But you are a man, and see only my pan, So I stay at home with a book.
— Dorothy Parker
That eugenics was part of the progressive agenda is one of the most heavily-airbrushed features of history.
— Arnold Kling
Original sin is the only doctrine that's been empirically validated by 2,000 years of human history.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
Because the human history is the history of shoes. The history of places where we ever tread and stand.
— Stebby Julionatan
The normal make a living. The deranged make history.
— Christopher Titus
If no deliberate plan existed to put the Lusitania in danger, one is left with an unforgivable cock-up as an explanation.
— Erik Larson
The more bombers, the less room for doves of peace.
— Nikita Khrushchev
I choose to believe that the same God who intervened to bring his Son back to life intervened on this day in history to help his people.
— Steven Furtick
If you could not accept the past and its burden there was no future, for without one there cannot be the other.
— Robert Penn Warren
Those old credulities, to Nature dear, Shall they no longer bloom upon the stock Of history?
— William Wordsworth
The history of man is a must read poetry.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
History's like that. There are wars, and unfortunately, in the end, who wins and who loses is more important than who's right or wrong.
— Richelle Mead
I was thinking that a life is just the history of what we give our attention to,' said Patrick. 'The rest is packaging.
— Edward St. Aubyn
What we hold in our heads - our memory, our feelings, our thoughts, our sense of our own history - is the sum of our humanity.
— Richard Eyre
There's a preoccupation with memory and the operation of memory and a rather rapacious interest in history.
— Penelope Lively
The beginning of my history is - love. It is the beginning of every man and every woman's history, if they are only frank enough to admit it.
— Marie Corelli
