History Quotes

"Whoever neglects the arts when he is young has lost the past and is dead to the future."

We all walk the earth ignorant of the art we create of history

“The world is changed because you are made of ivory and gold. The curves of your lips rewrite history.”

That's one small step for man; one giant leap for mankind.

"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."

Russia chose Christianity as a national religion over Islam because of Islam's prohibition of alcohol. The ruler said, "Drink, is the joy, of the Russian.'

If you step on the proletariat for too long, you might end up with a communist revolution

We are shaped not only by our current geography but by our ancestral one as well. Americans, for instance, retain a frontier spirit even though the only frontier that remains is that vast open space between the SUV and strip mall. We are our past.

What an astonishing thing a book is. It's a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and you're inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, an author is speaking clearly and silently inside your head, directly to you...Books break the shackles of time...proof that humans are capable of working magic.

"Let them call me a rebel and welcome it. Fore I feel no concern from it; but I should suffer the misery of devils were I to make a whore of my soul"

To you, O Sun, the people of Dorian Rhodes set up this bronze statue reaching to Olympus, when they had pacified the waves of war and crowned their city with the spoils taken from the enemy. Not only over the seas but also on land did they kindle the lovely torch of freedom and independence. For to the descendants of Herakles belongs dominion over sea and land.

Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.

We Milanesi don't worship our history like they do in Florence or Rome or Venice. What fascinates us is the future ...

I'm not the History, I'm the Future. That's why I failed in the history exam.

It is almost impossible for history to be repeated.

One great feature of modern society is the institutionalized respect we give to processes designed to destroy the past.

For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all Parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history.

But if we fail, then the whole world, including the United States, including all that we have known and cared for, will sink into the abyss of a new Dark Age, made more sinister, and perhaps more protracted, by the lights of perverted science. Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire last for a thousand years, men will still say, 'This was their finest hour.'

The era of procrastination, of half-measures, of soothing and baffling expedients, of delays, is coming to its close. In its place we are entering a period of consequences.

You can't rewrite history. Not one line!