Free history sayings, quotes and quotations
History, like a vast river, propels logs, vegetation, rafts, and debris; it is full of live and dead things, some destined for resurrection; it mingles many waters and holds in solution invisible substances stolen from distant soils.
~history of sayings by Jacques Barzun, Clio and the Doctors
When the history of civilization is written, it will be a biological history and Margaret Sanger will be its heroine.
~inspirational sayings about Sex quotes by H.G. Wells, 1935
War should belong to the tragic past, to history: it should find no place on humanity's agenda for the future.
~history quotes by Pope John Paul II (Karol Wojtyla)
We're the middle children of history.... no purpose or place. We have no Great War, no Great Depression. Our great war is a spiritual war. Our great depression is our lives.
~famous quotes about Generations by From the movie Fight Club, about Generation X
History does not teach fatalism. There are moments when the will of a handful of free men breaks through determinism and opens up new roads.
~history sayings by Charles de Gaulle
Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive. Has any act of selfishness ever equaled the carnage perpetrated by disciples of altruism?
~history of sayings by Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead
The South creates the civilizations, the North conquers them, ruins them, borrows from them, spreads them: this is one summary of history.
~inspirational sayings about History quotes by Will and Ariel Durant, Lessons of History
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
~history quotes by H.G. Wells, The Outline of History
I have strong doubts that the first Thanksgiving even remotely resembled the "history" I was told in second gradeBut considering that (when it comes to holidays) mainstream America's traditions tend to be over-eating, shopping, or getting drunk, I suppose
~famous quotes about Thanksgiving Day by Ellen Orleans
The game of history is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of the majority in the middle.
~history sayings by Eric Hoffer, The True Believer
[W]hen a historian enters into metaphysics he has gone to a far country from whose bourne he will never return a historian.
~history of sayings by Shailer Mathews, The Spiritual Interpretation of History
History attempts to provide society with an artificial collective memory.
~inspirational sayings about History quotes by Mark M. Krug, History and the Social Sciences
[H]istory is a melodrama on the theme of parasitism, characterized by scenes that are exciting or dull, as the case may be, and many a sudden stagetrick.
~history quotes by Max Nordau, The Interpretation of History
The middle sort of historians (of which the most part are) spoil all; they will chew our meat for us.
~famous quotes about History by Michel de Montaigne, translated
The lovers of romance can go elsewhere for satisfaction but where can the lovers of truth turn if not to history?
~history sayings by Katharine Anthony
If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere.
~history of sayings by Frank A. Clark
The Rose Bowl is the only bowl I've ever seen that I didn't have to clean.
~good sayings about American football by Erma Bombeck
Learning how to operate a soul figures to take time.
~history quotes by Timothy Leary
We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence of the good people.
~motivational quotes about Integrity sayings by Martin Luther King, Jr.
Recipe: A series of step-by-step instructions for preparing ingredients you forgot to buy, in utensils you don't own, to make a dish the dog wouldn't eat.
~history sayings by Author Unknown
What a pity, when Christopher Columbus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it
~history of sayings by Margot Asquith
Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
~good sayings about Passion by Honoré de Balzac
Don't expect anything original from an echo.
~history quotes by Author Unknown
You are digging for the answers until your fingers bleed, to satisfy the hunger, to satiate the need.... And as you pray in your darkness for wings to set you free, you are bound to your silent legacy.
~motivational quotes about Homosexuality sayings by Melissa Etheridge, Silent Legacy, Yes I Am, 1993
A chain is no stronger than its weakest link.
~history sayings by Leslie Stephen
It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.
~history of sayings by Thomas Jefferson
Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.
~good sayings about Experience. by John Gardner
Some folks wear their halos much too tight.
~history quotes by Author Unknown
A biophysicist talks physics to the biologists and biology to the physicists, but then he meets another biophysicist, they just discuss women.
~motivational quotes about Science sayings by Author Unknown
The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.
~history sayings by Benjamin Franklin
Don't get your knickers in a knot. Nothing is solved and it just makes you walk funny.
~history of sayings by Kathryn Carpenter
Most books, like their authors, are born to die; of only a few books can it be said that death hath no dominion over them; they live, and their influence lives forever.
~good sayings about Books Reading by J. Swartz
Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.
~history quotes by Dale Carnegie
Diamonds are a girl's best friend and a man's worst enemy.
~motivational quotes about Jewelry sayings by Author Unknown
Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.
~history sayings by Ralph Waldo Emerson
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