History Quotes - random - 100+ quotes
Blest is that nation whose silent course of happiness furnishes nothing for history to say.
In individuals as in nations, contentment is silent, which tends to unbalance the historical record.
Possibly the most perverse decision in the history of the award.
People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history.
I don't have a big thing about leaving my mark or being historic.
My history of lending money from banks is that they want to know the ins and outs of the backside of a duck.
There is very little thanks in history. Dog eat dog.
History is just one bloody thing after another.
That history just unfolds, independently of a specified direction, of a goal, no one is willing to admit.
Now let it be written in history and on Mr. Lincoln's tombstone: "He died an unbeliever."
You’re changing the course of history. I thought that sort of thing was strictly forbidden.
I always look forward to playing in Toronto because it's such a historic city when it comes to hockey.
History is the ship carrying living memories to the future.
Historia et scribitur ad narrandum non ad probandum.
Historical analogy is the last refuge of people who can't grasp the current situation.
Poetry carries its history within it, and it is oral in its origins,its transmission was oral.
My wife will tell you I'm practically addicted to the History Channel ... and I read a lot of history.
Those who do not know their history are doomed to keep stepping in it.
Anyone taking classics or history for the prestige is either at Oxford or stuck in 1909.
On the w:Festival of Britain, "We are consciously and deliberately determined to make history."