Top 465 History Quotes

I am just postmodern enough not to trust 'postmodern' as a description of our times, for it privileges the practices and intellectual formations of modernity. Calling this a postmodern age reproduces the modernist assumption that history must be policed by periods.

Stanley Hauerwas

I feel like I'm too busy writing history to read it.

I feel like I'm too busy writing history to read it.

Kanye West

It's just a great school and they have a history of developing big men. Georgetown is definitely a great option for me.

It's just a great school and they have a history of developing big men. Georgetown is definitely a great option for me.

Nerlens Noel

For much of history it was possible to believe that the great diversity of life on Earth was a fixed creation, that the living world had never changed. But when the first stirrings of industry demanded that fuel be dug from the earth and hillsides be leveled for roads and railways, the Earth's true past was dug up in abundance.

Kenneth R. Miller

I am a failed architect, if I'm honest. I got a degree in art history and was about to get another degree, in architecture, but realized I would be terrible at building things because I've got really bad spatial awareness.

Hannah Ware

It is remarkable how closely the history of the apple tree is connected with that of man.

It is remarkable how closely the history of the apple tree is connected with that of man.

Henry David Thoreau

Sudan cannot afford to be on the wrong side of history. The north and south will have to work together, but will they?

Sudan cannot afford to be on the wrong side of history. The north and south will have to work together, but will they?

Mo Ibrahim

The view of Jerusalem is the history of the world; it is more, it is the history of earth and of heaven.

The view of Jerusalem is the history of the world; it is more, it is the history of earth and of heaven.

Benjamin Disraeli

I've always been fascinated by the Chinese. This goes a long way back to my childhood. The Chinese invented money, movable type, clocks, and built the largest ships in the history of the world.

I've always been fascinated by the Chinese. This goes a long way back to my childhood. The Chinese invented money, movable type, clocks, and built the largest ships in the history of the world.

Thomas Steinbeck

Wherever, on the face of the globe or on the page of history, you show me a disfranchised class, I will show you a degraded class of labor.

Wherever, on the face of the globe or on the page of history, you show me a disfranchised class, I will show you a degraded class of labor.

Susan B. Anthony

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