Quotes about History
First governor in Arkansas history to ever lower taxes.
- Mike Huckabee
I believe that the ideals that America has stood for throughout our history represent the highest ideals of humankind.
- Mike Pence
The reign of imagagology begins where history ends.
- Milan Kundera
One of the reasons we do history, in fact, is because it acts as a brake, a control, on our otherwise unbridled enthusiasm for our own ideas.
- NT Wright
Christmas is all about surrender. It's all about the surrender of the Son to obey the perfect will of the Father and enter human history.
- Nancy Leigh DeMoss
History is a pact between the dead the living and the yet unborn.
- Edmund Burke
History isn't just the story of bad people doing bad things. It's quite as much a story of people trying to do good things. But somehow, something goes wrong.
- CS Lewis
Historically, I come from Jewish history. I had the classic upbringing in the Yeshiva, learning, learning, and more learning.
- Elie Wiesel
The more one reads poetry, the less tolerant one becomes of any sort of verbosity, be that in political or philosophical discourse, be that in history, social studies or the art of fiction.
- Joseph Brodsky
Those comfortably padded lunatic asylums which are known euphemistically as the stately homes of England.
- Virginia Woolf
These were honoured in their generations and were the glory of the times.
- Anonymous
History is never antiquated, because humanity is always fundamentally the same.
- Walter Rauschenbusch