- At Least One
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- Nov 07, 2020
History Quotes
Personal history and the record we leave.
Quotes about "history" here move between the personal and the public — early museum visits that shaped a scientific mindset, and a family history full of preachers and former priests. For enduring, timeless sayings, see Long quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel very honoured to be joining the Ferrari family and becoming a part of the most prestigious team in the history of Formula One.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always really, really wanted to go to Egypt and go inside some pyramids and just hang out there. I don't know why. I don't like hot weather, and I don't like the desert, but something about the pyramid and the mummies and all their history there, I'd love to go check it out.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
I respect the British a lot - their history, their past, their culture. I think it's beautiful, what they have with the monarchy.
- Gas Chambers
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you write a two thousand page history of the Second World War, the deportations and the concentration camps will take up five pages, and the gas chambers perhaps 20 lines.
- Fruitless
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- Nov 07, 2020
To rewrite history on the bases of hypotheses which have not materialized is not only a fruitless task, but, in my eyes, meaningless.
- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020
The current state of knowledge is a moment in history, changing just as rapidly as the state of knowledge in the past has ever changed and, in many instances, more rapidly.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
The question I am most often asked is how do I find my ideas? The answer is I don't. Ideas find me. A character in history will suddenly step right out of the past and demand a book. Generally, people don't bother to speak to me unless there's a good chance that I'll take them on.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
The common people have no history: persecuted by the present, they cannot think of preserving the memory of the past.
- Light
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never sat down and said, 'Now I must make a contribution, that one person can make a difference.' But I felt I was in a position where I could contribute. I never thought of it in the light of history or my brothers. I just felt I had an obligation.
- Life Is A
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- Nov 07, 2020
Life is a wonderful thing to talk about, or to read about in history books - but it is terrible when one has to live it.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020