Top 465 History Quotes

We awoke one morning in September, and the world lurched on its axis.

We awoke one morning in September, and the world lurched on its axis.

Jeb Bush

Before I went to New Orleans, I was a little scared of New Orleans. I don't know why. I had only been there a few times. Something about it made me feel nervous, knowing a bit about the history.

Before I went to New Orleans, I was a little scared of New Orleans. I don't know why. I had only been there a few times. Something about it made me feel nervous, knowing a bit about the history.

Harold Perrineau

'Memory.' 'Race.' 'Murder.' That's what they say about me. I am an elegiac poet. I have some historical questions, and I'm grappling with ways to make sense of history; why it still haunts us in our most intimate relationships with each other, but also in our political decisions.

Natasha Trethewey

What happens when good people are put into an evil place? Do they triumph or does the situation dominate their past history and morality?

What happens when good people are put into an evil place? Do they triumph or does the situation dominate their past history and morality?

Philip Zimbardo

It is the great sadness of our species that we have not found a way to eliminate the conflict and to eliminate violence as a device to resolve our conflicts throughout the entire history of the human race.

Neale Donald Walsch

My college roommate gave me her copy of 'Lord of the Rings,' and I read that probably five or six times - not because I think it's the greatest thing ever written, though some people certainly think it is - but the world he creates is so vivid. So real that he designed its own languages, history and mythology.

Carol Berg

I've always been interested in exploration and the history of exploring the world, but it seems like we've found everything now.

I've always been interested in exploration and the history of exploring the world, but it seems like we've found everything now.

Ransom Riggs

Remember that history always repeats itself. Every great bubble in history has broken. There are no exceptions.

Remember that history always repeats itself. Every great bubble in history has broken. There are no exceptions.

Jeremy Grantham

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.

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.

George Eliot

I think the decision to make substances like steroids from plants, rather than from animal tissues, was a landmark in the history of medicine as well as the history of chemistry.

I think the decision to make substances like steroids from plants, rather than from animal tissues, was a landmark in the history of medicine as well as the history of chemistry.

Gregory Petsko

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