Quotes for History

The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.

Golda Meir

History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.

Winston Churchill

If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.

C. S. Lewis

History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.

John F. Kennedy

What Britain needs is an iron lady.

Margaret Thatcher

The Ukraine has a long history of either being part of the Soviet Union or within that sphere.

Rand Paul

History never looks like history when you are living through it.

John W. Gardner

Madam President, speaking here in Dublin Castle it is impossible to ignore the weight of history, as it was yesterday when you and I laid wreaths at the Garden of Remembrance.

Queen Elizabeth II

Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World.

Christopher Columbus

A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us.

Margaret Thatcher

You must pursue this investigation of Watergate even if it leads to the president. I'm innocent. You've got to believe I'm innocent. If you don't, take my job.

Richard M. Nixon

Leonardo Fibonacci, the great 13th century Italian mathematician (1175-1250) created the 'Fibonacci sequence' to explain behavior in nature mathematically. History has it that the first question he posed was how many rabbits would be created in one year starting with one pair.

Rick Santelli

As history unfolds, as cultures evolve, of course the intelligences which they value change.

Howard Gardner

If you don't know your full-throttle history, the whole story of how you came to where you are, it's kind of hard to put things together.

Nipsey Hussle

He who puts out his hand to stop the wheel of history will have his fingers crushed.

Lech Walesa

I'm trying to push for common-sense gun reform and mental illness reform so we can make sure that these individuals that have a criminal background that are mentally unstable and have a history of domestic violence are no longer able to get a gun.

David Hogg

History rewards those who can change their minds when the stakes are high.

Andy Dunn

Remember that in every single case in history the process of adaptation has been one of exceeding slowness. Do not look for the impossible, but do not let your path deviate from the quiet and steadfast insistence on full opportunities for your powers.

Franz Boas

If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.

Desmond Tutu

There are no extraordinary men... just extraordinary circumstances that ordinary men are forced to deal with.

William Halsey