History is more or less bunk. It's tradition. We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's dam is the history we made today. —Henry Ford More about this quote Tags: history Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
For four-fifths of our history, our planet was populated by pond scum. —J. W. Schopf More about this quote Tags: history Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
History never looks like history when you are living through it. —John W. Gardner More about this quote Tags: history Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If you write a post and put it on a blog, that's a historical document. If you change your template, then that entry looks completely different. It's the same words, but not the same meaning. This all depends on what historical questions that people will be asking and we can't know what they will want. —Josh Greenberg More about this quote Tags: history Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon. —Napoleon Bonaparte More about this quote Tags: history Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Some people make headlines while others make history. —Philip Elmer-DeWitt More about this quote Tags: history Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thinking, confusion of counsel until the emergency comes, until self-preservation strikes its jarring gong-these are the features which constitute the endless repetition of history. —Winston Churchill More about this quote Tags: history Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
As one reads history . . . one is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good have inflicted; and a community is infinitely more brutalized by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurrence of crime. —Oscar Wilde More about this quote Tags: history crime cruelty punishment community Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
History develops, art stands still. —E. M. Forster More about this quote Tags: history art Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Letting go means to come to the realization that some people are a part of your history, but not a part of your destiny. —Steve Maraboli More about this quote Tags: history people letting go destiny Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
My whole family has been having trouble with immigrants ever since we came to this country. —Edgar Y. Harburg More about this quote Tags: history immigrants Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The melting pot failed to function in one crucial area. Religions and nationalities, however different, generally learned to live together, even to grow together, in America. But color was something else. Reds were murdered like wild animals. Yellows were characterized as a peril and incarcerated en masse during World War II for no really good reason by our most liberal president. Browns have been abused as the new slave labor on farms. The blacks, who did not come here willingly, are now, more than a century after emancipation by Lincoln, still suffering a host of slavelike inequalities. —Theodore M. Hesburgh More about this quote Tags: history religion America race Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigrees of nations. —Samuel Johnson More about this quote Tags: history loss language Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
There was something so heavy about the burden of history, of the past. I wasn't sure I had it in me to keep looking back. —Sarah Dessen in Just Listen More about this quote Tags: history regret the past Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it. —Joseph Conrad More about this quote Tags: war history theft conquest Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email