- Best
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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
- Franklin
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm so proud of myself. I thought, 'I've got to learn about American history.' I literally took two months off and watched every documentary known to man. I really didn't know Benjamin Franklin was so cool.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is always self-defeating to pretend to a generation younger than your own; it simply erases your own experience in history.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
To me, Cary Grant is probably the most fashionable man in the history of Hollywood. The guy was just slick. He did it so effortlessly.
- Faith
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore we must be saved by faith.
- Baseball History
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- Nov 07, 2020
After Jackie Robinson the most important black in baseball history is Reggie Jackson, I really mean that.
- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
We've always anticipated that, as Nintendo would demonstrate business potential with an idea, others would follow. And we believe that based on history - rumble, joystick - things that we invented, if you will, and first put in video games, others quickly latched on to.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Throughout America's history, the start of adult life for women - whatever else it might have been destined to include - had been typically marked by marriage.
- Nov 07, 2020
It is sometimes very hard to tell the difference between history and the smell of skunk.
- Egyptian
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- Nov 07, 2020
For centuries, the Yangtze River - the longest in Asia - has played an important role in China's history, culture, and economy. The Yangtze is as quintessentially Chinese as the Nile is Egyptian or the Rhine is German. Many businesses use its name.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
There have been only rare moments in history where individual histories were able to run their course without wars or revolutions.
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
All the Midkemia stories are part of a 'history of an imaginary place,' so I've always known the cycle covered five rift wars. I just got to the end after 30 books. So there was no particular inspiration, save it was time to finish the whole shebang.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was among the people in the Superdome. I knew what was going on every minute. I did not have air conditioning nor shower facilities. I made decisions based upon facts and not what I thought was going to happen. So history will judge me based upon those actions.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020