- Human
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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
- Capabilities
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Bush administration is the most diverse in history because the president fills jobs on the basis of a person's capabilities and qualifications, not on the color of his or her skin.
- Dead
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- Nov 07, 2020
Narcissism and the Confederate dead cannot be connected logically, or even historically; even were the connection an historical fact, they would not stand connected as art, for no one experiences raw history.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
A poem may be an instance of morality, of social conditions, of psychological history; it may instance all its qualities, but never one of them alone, nor any two or three; never less than all.
- Documenting
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the Federal Government, electronic records are as indispensable as their paper counterparts for documenting citizens' rights, the actions for which officials are accountable, and the nation's history.
- Need
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- Nov 07, 2020
In a lot of movies, African-Americans are either maids or slaves, but that's not all they were. We need to show that. And we can't keep erasing history.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
History is a certain way, but you just change the point of view a little bit, and you discover a whole new side of it.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
When the great history of trouble is written, my family will stand extremely high in the table of contents.
- Professional
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you look at my professional history as a goalkeeper, I'm not somebody who makes many.
- Night
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many times, I'd spend the night walking the city streets: the Trevi fountain, in the dark, is so beautiful it moves you, but the Colosseum is my favourite place - you can breathe history there.
- Battle
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- Nov 07, 2020
Though not the longest battle in history - that was Verdun - Stalingrad was certainly the most pitiless, an adjective that reappears regularly in Mr. Beevor's classic work.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
A triumph in which Kissinger could claim to have played some little part, in the presidential elections that November, President Richard Nixon had won the second greatest landslide in American history. Forty-seven million Americans had voted for him - and for his and Kissinger's policies - representing more than 60 percent of all the votes cast.
- Meaningless
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- Nov 07, 2020
History never repeats, but there are the obvious precedents that pessimists can reach for: Sarajevo, 1914; the Sudetenland of Czechoslovakia, 1938. But equally relevant might be the tragically meaningless guarantees Britain extended to Poland in 1939.
- Illiterate
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm pretty illiterate when it comes to comics history.
- Developmental
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- Nov 07, 2020
Putting together philosophy and children would have been difficult for most of history. But very fortunately for me, when I started graduate school there was a real scientific revolution taking place in developmental psychology.
- Isolation
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- Nov 07, 2020
In most places and times in human history, babies have had not just one person but lots of people around who were really paying attention to them around, dedicated to them, cared to them, were related to them. I think the big shift in our culture is the isolation in which many children are growing up.
- High School Students
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- Nov 07, 2020
Imagine if baseball were taught the way science is taught in most inner-city schools. Schoolchildren would get lectures about the history of the World Series. High school students would occasionally reproduce famous plays of the past. Nobody would get in the game themselves until graduate school.
- Diaries
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- Nov 07, 2020