History Quotes - Page 60

The voice of history is often little more than the organ of hatred or flattery.

The history of life on earth has been a history of interaction between living things and their surroundings.

Things have never been more like the way they are today in history.

Of course Overlord did not fail. How could it? With some many fine young men and women from all corners of the earth all determined to do their best to free a world gone half mad.

Hurricane Katrina is without question the worst natural disaster in American history.

History is the record of encounters between character and circumstance.

More Irishmen died fighting for Britain in World War I than died fighting against her in all of Ireland's bids for independence combined.

I've been through a lot. I've thought a lot about life, and I've spent a lot of time studying history and science.

Black History Month is a great celebration for Black people everywhere. I just hope we get to the point as Black people that we celebrate everyday like it is Black History month by living our lives and aspiring to be all we can. Many people lost their lives for us to have the privileges we have so we need to honor them by striving to be the best we can be.

History, facts and truth are all Divine Products, and must prevail.

It is given to us to live for the most part under the guidance of mathematics ... It is impossible to distinguish from other living creatures anyone who does not understand how to quantify.

Like most Rebel soldiers, Sam Watkins owned no slaves.

What the hell difference does it make, left or right? There were good men lost on both sides.

Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.

It is with nations as it is with individuals. A book of history is a book of sermons.

No people in the world other than the English would have had the courage, in the midst of war, to tell the people such unvarnished truth.

We as women know that there are no disembodied processes; that all history originates in human flesh; that all oppression is inflicted by the body of one against the body of another; that all social change is built on the bone and muscle, and out of the flesh and blood, of human creators.

History is the sextant of states which, tossed by wind and current, would be lost in confusion if they could not fix their position.

History is never above the melee. It is not allowed to be neutral, but forced to enlist in every army.

My country has no history, only a past.

History, in a democratic age, tends to become a series of popular apologies, and is inclined to assume that the people can do no wrong.

If history in the making be a fluid thing, it swiftly crystallizes.

God grant that this is the work of the Communists. You are witnessing the beginning of a great new epoch in German history. This fire is the beginning.

What interests us about the past is at least partly a function of what bothers us or makes us curious in the present.

History does not eliminate grievances. It lays them down like landmines.