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History Quotes

Visual surprise is natural in the Caribbean; it comes with the landscape, and faced with its beauty, the sigh of History dissolves.

Beauty History Surprise Landscape

If one gains an interest in the history of the earth, he is quite sure to gain an interest in the history of the life on the earth. If the former illustrates the theory of development, so must the latter. The geologist is pretty sure to be an evolutionist.

Life History Earth Development Sure

Let Indian history be set side by side with Europe history with what there is of the latter century by century and let us see whether India need blush at the comparison.

History India Blush Need See Europe

We knew in our gut that History needed to be more than a timeline.

History More Gut Timeline Knew Than

Seventy years ago this November, Vladimir Lenin created the modern totalitarian state, transforming simpler forms of tyranny into history's most sophisticated apparatus of rule by terror.

History Tyranny Seventy Years Modern

Shooting in Jaipur was one of the best experiences of my life. The city is culturally quite rich, and each part of it has a history.

Life History Best City Rich My Life

Yet, history has shown that if material force can defeat some ideologies it can no longer obliterate a civilization without destabilizing the whole planet.

Abdelaziz Bouteflika

History Defeat Civilization Without

Political vitriol is a familiar enough characteristic of American history.

History American Political Enough

In the history of physics, every time we've looked beyond the scales and energies we were familiar with, we've found things that we wouldn't have thought were there. You look inside the atom, and eventually you discover quarks. Who would have thought that?

History Time Thought Physics Look

Schools don't teach American history that well, especially a lot of black American history.

Colson Whitehead

History Black American Teach Well

Most inventions are based on some prior history.

History Inventions Most Some Based

The best thing about getting older is knowing history. The longer you live, the longer you have been in a sport, the more you know, and the more you know where things started.

Live History Best Getting Older You

In Rome, I particularly love the history, churches, sculptures and architecture and the fact that you can walk along a tiny cobbled street and turn the corner to find the Trevi Fountain. London is evocative of other eras and full of history.

Love History Walk Architecture You

My main goal is to become the most successful weightlifter in history.

History Goal Become Successful Most

In third grade, I had to an oral report on the state of Oregon. I brought up Big Foot sightings, and I remember there was an argument about whether or not Big Foot was valid history. Ever since then I've been thinking about how subjective history is.

History Thinking Remember Argument

Whatever glory belongs to the race for a development unprecedented in history for the given length of time, a full share belongs to the womanhood of the race.

Mary McLeod Bethune

History Time Glory Development Race

I normally ignore the History Channel.

History Ignore Channel Normally

I'm a child of the sixties. I grew up with a president who was a crook, who put us into the most unpopular war in history, who had no communication with people under thirty. I had seen the Symbionese Liberation Army and the Panthers and the Diggers; I understood what they were about.

Communication History War Child Army

What does the artist do? He draws connections. He ties the invisible threads between things. He dives into history, be it the history of mankind, the geological history of the Earth or the beginning and end of the manifest cosmos.

History Beginning End Connections

'The Hatfields and McCoys' is a classic tale of American history. These are names that are widely recognized, yet few people know the real story that made them famous.

History People Story Famous American

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.

Knowledge History Moment Past More

Probably the TV show I've watched the most is 'How It's Made' on the History Channel. I could watch 24 hours of 'How It's Made' and never get bored.

History Never Bored Watch Show Get

I get in trouble when I say things like, 'I'm attracted to violence.' I was a pretty angry kid, and I got into military history largely as a way to vent my own anger. As I got older it narrowed down to a more specific focus on individual violence. I'm just trying to understand where it came from.

History Focus Anger Angry Violence

I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.

Power History World Say Washington

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