History quotes

Billions of people have seen and been influenced by movies in the short history of this industry.

It took a while for me to grasp that my colleagues believe I have made an impact on the history of cinema.

Part of what I enjoy about the theatre and acting is that sense of history.

I'll watch any show on the History Channel.

It is always self-defeating to pretend to a generation younger than your own it simply erases your own experience in history.

Irish fiction is full of secrets, guilty pasts, divided identities. It is no wonder that there is such a rich tradition of Gothic writing in a nation so haunted by history.

Introspection and preserved writings give us far more insight into the ways of past humans than we have into the ways of past dinosaurs. For that reason, I'm optimistic that we can eventually arrive at convincing explanations for these broadest patterns of human history.

It is in Rousseau's writing above all that history begins to turn from upper-class honour to middle-class humanitarianism. Pity, sympathy and compassion lie at the centre of his moral vision. Values associated with the feminine begin to infiltrate social existence as a whole, rather than being confined to the domestic sphere.

History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself.

The study of history and philosophy, accompanied by some acquaintance with art and literature, should be for lawyers and engineers as well as for those who study in arts faculties.

When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong.

If history, philosophy and so on vanish from academic life, what they leave in their wake may be a technical training facility or corporate research institute. But it will not be a university in the classical sense of the term, and it would be deceptive to call it one.

The '80s were fabulous. The '90s sucked, and the '70s were just a sad, sad time in human history. Go 1980s! There's something that's just so cute about that time. And not just yellow nail polish and 'I'm a loner.'

The history of mankind is the history of ideas.

We are a big country, with lots of advantages and history. We are proud to be French. We have to call on patriotism at this time... to ask for an effort in the battle against debt.

Strip malls are history.

China has all the advantages in the world. But it doesn't have a history of free thinking, risk-taking pioneers - the kind of people the U.S. is built upon.

That's history. I say history because it happened in the past.

History has not dealt kindly with the aftermath of protracted periods of low risk premiums.

Few men in our history have ever obtained the Presidency by planning to obtain it.