Top 465 History Quotes

I've always felt that the obligation of teachers is to have a huge, broad overview and to provide a foundation course to the students. The long view of history is absolutely crucial.

I've always felt that the obligation of teachers is to have a huge, broad overview and to provide a foundation course to the students. The long view of history is absolutely crucial.

Camille Paglia

I don't know anything about the history of music.

I don't know anything about the history of music.

Sia Furler

The history of ideas is littered with the corpses of those who have tried to define culture.

The history of ideas is littered with the corpses of those who have tried to define culture.

Giles Foden

There are musicians who want to make a living making music. There are listeners who want to listen to music. Complicating this relationship is a whole bunch of history: some of the music I want to listen to was made a while ago in a different economy. Some of the models of making a living making music are no longer valid but persist.

Kent Beck

My whole history of being an actor is unusual and slightly disgraceful because it should be something you burn to do.

My whole history of being an actor is unusual and slightly disgraceful because it should be something you burn to do.

Hugh Grant

There were various turning points, but the main one at the beginning was that I was going off to do another degree in the history of art. I would have ended up as some art historian at Sotheby's or something.

Hugh Grant

My first popular book, 'A Brief History of Time,' aroused a great deal of interest, but many found it difficult to understand.

My first popular book, 'A Brief History of Time,' aroused a great deal of interest, but many found it difficult to understand.

Stephen Hawking

The history of Hillary Clinton as a five-year senator is to promote Hillary Clinton and not the needs of New Yorkers.

The history of Hillary Clinton as a five-year senator is to promote Hillary Clinton and not the needs of New Yorkers.

John Spencer

The current state of knowledge is a moment in history, changing just as rapidly as the state of knowledge in the past has ever changed and, in many instances, more rapidly.

The current state of knowledge is a moment in history, changing just as rapidly as the state of knowledge in the past has ever changed and, in many instances, more rapidly.

Jean Piaget

History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.

History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.

Thomas Carlyle

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