History quotes

I don't want a Black History Month. Black history is American history.

We have wasted History like a bunch of drunks shooting dice back in the men's crapper of the local bar.

I don't think we handled the aftermath of the fall of Baghdad as well as we might have. But that's now history.

Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. And today? Today is a gift. That's why we call it the present.

Strangers are exciting, their mystery never ends. But, there's nothing like looking at your own history in the faces of your friends.

Newspapers are the second hand of history. This hand, however, is usually not only of inferior metal to the other hands, it also seldom works properly.

Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time.

One of the enduring problems with certain societies in the world - and this is certainly true of a lot of places in the Middle East - is that the capacity for self-governance and self-organizing just isn't there. It has to do with history.

No humorist is under any obligation to provide answers and probably if you were to delve into the literary history of humour it's probably all about not providing answers because the humorist essentially says: this is the way things are.

The thing about black history is that the truth is so much more complex than anything you could make up.

Neither current events nor history show that the majority rule, or ever did rule.

It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing Prison or Harvard. We hire a man, not his history.

Minimalism seems closest to the sophisticated storytelling of movies. Movies have really educated contemporary audiences to be the most intelligent, sophisticated audiences in history. We don't any longer need to have the relationship between one scene and the next explained. We will figure it out ourselves.

Nixon is one of the few in the history of this country to run for high office talking out of both sides of his mouth at the same time and lying out of both sides.

The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.

Of the twenty-two civilizations that have appeared in history, nineteen of them collapsed when they reached the moral state the United States is in now.

Today, for the first time in history, a Bishop of Rome sets foot on English soil. This fair land, once a distant outpost of the pagan world, has become, through the preaching of the Gospel, a beloved and gifted portion of Christ's vineyard.

Rome - the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.

Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and history.

Assassination has never changed the history of the world.