History Quotes (5360 Quotes)

Fashion is a part of the world and part of history. It's not a meaningless swirl of meaningless clothes. They (clothes) reflect the times.

I am delighted that Toll Brothers has agreed to support this landmark series, the longest running classical radio program in the history of American broadcasting.

Without the connotation good or bad, bin Laden's a great man in the sense that he's influenced the course of history.

He's ducking the question but he's also right. You don't know what the judgment of history is going to be 10, 20 or 50 years out. It may be very different than it is now.

It shows an interest in thinking deeply about the role of the courts in society and the proper interpretation of the Constitution based on its text and history.

I loved history because to me, history was like watching a movie.

It seems to go in cycles. There have periods of history where it was considered bad form to flaunt your wealth but we are not in one of those now. Over the last 30 years, there has been a gradual weakening of the idea that you should not have a house too big because the concept of what is too big has changed.

History doesn't help you win basketball games. What does history do to help you win a basketball game, or what does tradition do to help you win a basketball game like tonight's.

The visitor never really engaged with the story the way we would do today in terms of living history. We're going to take a character-led approach to the whole presentation in the future.

I don't remember ever hearing of someone running for office and getting elected by saying that if the worst natural disaster in the history of the country hit, the government wasn't going to spend a dime to help the innocent citizens.

Today is an immensely sad day in the history of the department. Sadly, these dual tragedies serve as a reminder to New York of the extreme dangers firefighters face.

David Baltimore will go down in history as not only a great scientist but also as one of the great presidents of Caltech.

I shall cheerfully bear the reproach of having descended below the dignity of history if I can succeed in placing before the English of the nineteenth century a true picture of the life of their ancestors.

History has been kinder to Churchill than many of his contemporaries ever were. Some may be surprised to learn that the following luminary from the field of science-fiction had anything political to say at all 'Winston Churchill, the present would-be British Fuehrer, is a person with a range of ideas limited to the adventures and opportunities of British political life. He has never given evidence of thinking extensively, or of any scientific or literary capacity.... His ideology, picked up in the garrison life of India, on the reefs of South Africa, the maternal home and the conversation of wealthy Conservative households, is a pitiful jumble of incoherent nonsense. A boy scout is better equipped. He has served his purpose and it is high time he retired upon his laurels before we forget the debt we owe him....'

felt the shadow of history in its brutality.

Democrats believe that government should reflect the sense of community that Americans demonstrated after Katrina - the sense of community that has defined and united America throughout its history.

This is a superior management team. They are the best in the industry, and I am confident they will do an outstanding job at this critical time in our company's history,

History has shown -- whether it is in Ontario under Mike Harris, or New Brunswick or Saskatchewan -- that it did not create any child care spaces.

One thing that really came to life is the history these kids are leaving out in the open.

Young people have been at the forefront of every great social movement in our country's history.

I was entrusted with the legacy of the franchise. I simply picked the best player in the country. If the Baltimore franchise was good enough for John Unitas, the greatest quarterback in the history of the league, it was good enough for John Elway.

This is a history we want people to know about.

Those of us who have gathered here, ... we owe something from this minute on, so this gathering is not just another footnote on the pages of history.

I don't see this as an upset. I bet everyone else in this gymnasium does, but I don't. History doesn't mean anything. It all comes down to who works harder during the year and who comes ready.

He's got a history of power. His average amount of home runs would lead our team. We feel pretty good about this move overall.

It will really be the trial of the history of his regime over 35 years,

It's a streak that obviously is a pride thing, but it's not a life-or-death thing, ... We know that there are very few people, if anybody ever in history, that have been fortunate enough to go through a season unscored upon, and we're not foolish enough to believe that's going to happen to us. But obviously, you're playing hard to try to keep that.

Sir, allusion has been made, in an early stage of this debate, to the history of the excitement which once pervaded a considerable part of the country, in reference to the transportation of the mails on the Lord's day.

No secretary of defense who has ever stayed more than one term has ever turned out well. McNamara and Weinberger, both if they had left at the end of their first term would have gone down in history much differently.

(The ruling is) a victory of history over hate, ... Today's decision definitely places Irving where he belongs -- not as a historian, but as a leading apologist for those who seek to whitewash the most heinous crime in human history.

A band with no history can get 40,000 people looking at its video just by getting on the site and doing some work. It's a strong incentive. The technology has changed so much in the past six or seven years. You can make a video cheaply. The quality may be lacking, but I think fans get excited when they discover a band that's made its own record or video. They're the first to see them underground.

Give me a stock clerk with a goal and I'll give you a man who will make history. Give me a man with no goals and I'll give you a stock clerk. (J. C.

First of all, I would like to state that the Kurdistan Democratic Party is an old party with great history, and so is the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan.

The Thames is liquid history.

There was simply too much suspicion out there, given the history of the case, for us not to give a full explanation of what went wrong and why no federal charges were filed.

There is no obvious contact with wild animals, no any obvious contacts with laboratories, nor any travel history,

irretrievable loss to the understanding of history and the efforts of Iraqi and international scholars to study and gain new insight into our past.

People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.

Alabama brought a new energy and a broader audience to country music in the 1980s, becoming the most successful band in our format's history.

Perdue has a history of ignoring polling and doing what he believes is right, ... don't want people who make key decisions based on whether it helps them get re-elected or not.

Our victory will open a new page in the history of Ukraine. We are ready to work together with any political party.

This is one of the greatest seasons in Major League Baseball history. It's a whirlwind. It's a circus. Every single game. We just need to play better baseball so we can join the circus.

The history of those who shed those other tears, the history of those anonymous millions, is what Terkel wants readers and listeners to come away with. What's it like to be that goofy little soldier, scared stiff, with his bayonet aimed at Christ What's it like to have been a woman in a defense-plant job during World War II What's it like to be a kid at the front lines It's all funny and tragic at the same time.

Once again, we're saying here are these people in your community, and here's their criminal history. Beyond that, we have no jurisdiction to place them on supervision in Texas.

We are pleased to have these renowned franchises represent the NBA in the most ambitious international competition in league history.

There is no reason to repeat bad history.

In quiet and untroubled times it seems to every administrator that it is only by his efforts that the whole population under his rule is kept going, and in this consciousness of being indispensable every administrator finds the chief reward of his labor and efforts. While the sea of history remains calm the ruler-administrator in his frail bark, holding on with a boat hook to the ship of the people and himself moving, naturally imagines that his efforts move the ship he is holding on to. But as soon as a storm arises and the sea begins to heave and the ship to move, such a delusion is no longer possible. The ship moves independently with its own enormous motion, the boat hook no longer reaches the moving vessel, and suddenly the administrator, instead of appearing a ruler and a source of power, becomes an insignificant, useless, feeble man.

After all my years of playing soldiers, and then of reading History, I have almost a mania to be in the East, to see fighting, and to serve.

America is, therefore the land of the future, where, in the ages that lie before us, the burden of the World's history shall reveal itself. It is a land of desire for all those who are weary of the historical lumber-room of Old Europe.

Clearly it would never be our intent to take people back to such a horrible period in world history.