Top 465 History Quotes

And it's a crime because the great plays of history, going all the way back to the Greeks, are part of everybody's heritage. It's just like in music, Beethoven or Mozart, that's everybody's heritage.

And it's a crime because the great plays of history, going all the way back to the Greeks, are part of everybody's heritage. It's just like in music, Beethoven or Mozart, that's everybody's heritage.

Tony Randall

History is full of times when the inevitable front-runner is inevitable right up until he or she is no longer inevitable.

History is full of times when the inevitable front-runner is inevitable right up until he or she is no longer inevitable.

Martin O'Malley

On taking office, Obama promised the 'most transparent' administration in history; yet his record as president has been anything but transparent.

On taking office, Obama promised the 'most transparent' administration in history; yet his record as president has been anything but transparent.

Bob Barr

History can bring luck: this is what we can call optimism.

History can bring luck: this is what we can call optimism.

Stephane Hessel

America has always imported history.

America has always imported history.

Helmut Jahn

God created us for love, for union, for forgiveness and compassion and, yet, that has not been our storyline. That has not been our history.

God created us for love, for union, for forgiveness and compassion and, yet, that has not been our storyline. That has not been our history.

Richard Rohr

I make movies for me and posterity. I'm more scared of history than I am of the studio.

I make movies for me and posterity. I'm more scared of history than I am of the studio.

Doug Liman

I'm not interested in gothic storytelling or the horrific for its own sake. I'm always interested in it as a way of getting at larger ideas or important meaning. And you don't see that as much as you'd think in the history of horror cinema. A lot of times, it's scariness for scariness' own sake.

Scott Derrickson

When Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence, declaring that all men were created equal, he owned slaves. Women couldn't vote. But, throughout history, our abolitionists, suffragettes, and civil rights leaders called on our nation, in reality, to live up to the nation's professed ideals in that Declaration.

Marvin Ammori

Sometimes history takes things into its own hands.

Sometimes history takes things into its own hands.

Thurgood Marshall

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