History quotes

I don't know the history of my sport. I'm not like those people who know everything.

Crazy Horse saw history as integrated in the present, incorporated into daily life.

All through history, there have always been movements where business was not just about the accumulation of proceeds but also for the public good.

All history has been a history of class struggles between dominated classes at various stages of social development.

To those who have chosen the profession of medicine, a knowledge of chemistry, and of some branches of natural history, and, indeed, of several other departments of science, affords useful assistance.

Our flag honors those who have fought to protect it, and is a reminder of the sacrifice of our nation's founders and heroes. As the ultimate icon of America's storied history, the Stars and Stripes represents the very best of this nation.

If history is any indication, all truths will eventually turn out to be false.

History can never be covered up.

Optimists are usually wrong. But all the great change in history, positive change, was done by optimists.

America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization.

It created a global platform that allowed more people to plug and play, collaborate and compete, share knowledge and share work, than anything we have ever seen in the history of the world.

Gay writers now have both a sense of history and the fables that allows them to dwell in the realms of the ridiculous and at the same time talk seriously about things.

All the gossip and craziness becomes a kind of sustained narrative which, in turn, can become history. It's scary.

A handful of works in history have had a direct impact on social policy: one or two works of Dickens, some of Zola, 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' and, in modern drama, Larry Kramer's 'The Normal Heart.'

The general consensus among historians, among the ones who can handle the fact that 'Lincoln' is, in fact, historical fiction, is that we demonstrate enormous fidelity to history and that, beyond that, we've actually contributed a line of thinking about Lincoln's presidency that's somewhat original.

Accuracy is paramount in every detail of a work of history. Here's my rule: Ask yourself, 'Did this thing happen?' If the answer is yes, then it's historical. Then ask, 'Did this thing happen precisely this way?' If the answer is yes, then it's history if the answer is no, not precisely this way, then it's historical drama.

Revolutions are the periods of history when individuals count most.

Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man.

'Days' has always been strong as an icon in TV history, and it's still going on strong and represents the genre of daytime drama so well. I'm proud to be a part of it.

More people have more access to more readers for less money than ever before in history. It means a lot of dross but it means a lot of very talented people can find and nurture a readership in ways that were not possible twenty years ago. From a creative perspective, that is all that writing is about.