Quotes about History
...one may say anything about the history of the world - anything that might enter the most disordered imagination. The only thing one can't say is that it's rational.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
All history is but the lengthened shadow of a great man.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Once you get into this great stream of history, you can't get out.
— Richard Nixon
I think I was a good student, because I jumped over a school. My main interest was basically history and literature. Sports were basically basketball and swimming at a pool. I was so happy.
— Shimon Peres
There is an awful lot of difference between reading something and actually seeing it, for you can never tell, till you see it, just how big a liar History is.
— Will Rogers
I'm so, so thrilled that [Pope Francis] is there at this crucial moment in the history of our world.
— Desmond Tutu
The story [of the Sacrifice of Isaac ] is much more a part of theology than of history.
— Elie Wiesel
I don't worry about long-term history. I won't be around to read it.
— George W. Bush
I have the greater glory of God, the history is His story, that He is in charge and ultimately He knows what He's doing.
— Rick Warren
Connection to the music and the history was very powerful to me. I think that's what I feel the most blessed about.
— Jon Gordon
I'm interested in the history of ideas and how these ideas take on flesh and influence culture, and the church.
— Kevin Vanhoozer
the late twentieth century will go down in history, i'm sure, as an era of pharmaceutical buffoonery.
— Kurt Vonnegut Jr.