History Quotes
It is not observed in history that families improve with time.
George William Curtis
American writer
There's a rich history at Westboro of parodying pop culture. The thing about pop culture is that it gives us a shared language. We were constantly trying to co-opt things that were popular to deliver our own message.
Megan Phelps-Roper
Political activist
I have such a personal life history with R&B - it's the first music I remember hearing, and it feels like a family tradition.
Giveon
American singer
I became a prime minister within four-and-a-half years, the shortest kind of career ever in Israeli political history.
Ehud Barak
Prime Minister of Israel
I pledge allegiance to the living, and I will defend art from history. I will rescue art from the future, from its attrition into taste, and from the speculative notion that it will become more valuable with time.
Rene Ricard
American poet
We cannot get by Auschwitz. We should not even try, as great as the temptation is, because Auschwitz belongs to us, is branded into our history, and - to our benefit! - has made possible an insight that could be summarized as, 'Now we finally know ourselves.'
Gunter Grass
German novelist
The approach of 'Game of Thrones' is similar to 'The Lord of the Rings' in that it treats its source material almost like history, and it focuses as much on the human drama as it does on anything fantastical.
Elijah Wood
American actor
I populated 'The Bourne Identity' with real characters from American history, specifically characters from the Iran-Contra affair, which my father ran the investigation of. But at the heart of it was a fictional character.
Doug Liman
American film director
I am 25 years old, have been the captain of Inter for three years, and I am part of club history with my goals.
Mauro Icardi
Argentina football player
I realized my family was famous because I was looking in my history book and I saw my grandfather.
Sky Blu
American rapper, singer, songwriter, record producer, DJ and dancer
The truth is that all civic and social change is friction. Politics is friction. The only way you can bend the arc of history is to create that kind of friction, which is something that makes most people incredibly uncomfortable but which, for whatever reason, because of my upbringing or because of my genetics, is something that doesn't bug me.
Nick Hanauer
American entrepreneur
Just as Darwin discovered the law of development of organic nature, so Marx discovered the law of development of human history: the simple fact, hitherto concealed by an overgrowth of ideology, that mankind must first of all eat, drink, have shelter and clothing, before it can pursue politics, science, art, religion, etc.
Friedrich Engels
Philosopher
We made 'The Wind That Shakes the Barley' about the war of independence and the civil war, which were the pivotal moments of Irish history, really. 'Jimmy's Hall' would seem to be a smaller story 10 years later.
Ken Loach
British film director
I want to fight Joshua. We've got history: this would be the third time. He's won one, I've won one. This would be the decider.
Dillian Whyte
British professional boxer
Drew Henson could go down as the greatest quarterback in the history of Michigan football.
Lee Corso
American sports coach
Biography is a very definite region bounded on the north by history, on the south by fiction, on the east by obituary, and on the west by tedium.
Philip Guedalla
Author
'A People's History of the United States' was actually a very big book for me. I read it in high school, and I felt like my mind was really blown by it. I think the truth is I read it because it's referenced in 'Good Will Hunting.'
Greta Gerwig
American actress
The 1950s and 1960s had been a period of enormous growth, the highest in American history, maybe in economic history.
Noam Chomsky
American linguist
Yes, the small village that we live in, in Virginia, is a very interesting place, in terms of its Civil War history, because it was a town that was founded by Quakers in 1733.
Geraldine Brooks
Australian-American journalist
America has a long and proud history of providing safe harbor for refugees. We must continue to do so, but in a way that keeps America safe.
Peter T. King
Former United States Representative
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