History quotes

I like animals. I like natural history. The travel bit is not the important bit. The travel bit is what you have to do in order to go and look at animals.

I'm inspired by history, different periods.

The truth is, of course, that history is not completed in modern commerce any more than philosophy is perfected in political economy. In other words, there is nothing timeless or God-given about filling stations and penicillin and plastic bags.

I graduated from the University of Delaware with a double major in history and political science.

There's a lot of revisionist history that goes on these days about Iraq.

Over the objections, where they sound like squealing pigs, over the objections of Romney and all his allies, we passed some of the toughest Wall Street regulations in history, turning Wall Street back into the allocator of capital it always has been and no longer a casino. And they want to repeal it.

Texas was such a welcoming place, and with its unbelievable history and tradition, it's extra special to be a part of that.

When you think of how history is revealed, we know certain things to be facts at certain periods of time, which turn out not to be so factual as time marches on.

It is sometimes very hard to tell the difference between history and the smell of skunk.

The institution of chivalry forms one of the most remarkable features in the history of the Middle Ages.

Life moves fast. As much as you can learn from your history, you have to move forward.

I normally ignore the History Channel.

Part of the problem is voters know relatively little about Romney. And some of what they know about him complicates his task: Romney has a history of flip-flopping on issues, he's extraordinarily wealthy, and he can be tone-deaf about what moves voters. He just doesn't seem comfortable in his skin.

If history is a guide, a victory for Obama means he faces the prospect of a second term dogged by scandal or inertia.

My face has changed with the years and has enough history in it to give audiences something to work with.

It's in the history books, the Holocaust. It's just a phrase. And the truth is it happened yesterday. It happened to my mother. I never met my grandmothers or my grandfathers. They were all wiped up in the gas chambers of Nazi Germany.

In history people dressed much better than we do today.

I don't have space to enter into the examples or the history of this, so I'm left with having to make the bold statement that culture is extinct.

I think feminists are unaware of the tremendous extent of the role of women in history.

You're going to relegate my history to a month.