Find the Perfect Quote | Explore Our Curated Categories for Every Occasion

No period of history has ever been great or ever can be that does not act on some sort of high, idealistic motives, and idealism in our time has been shoved aside, and we are paying the penalty for it.

It is very attractive to people to be a victim. Instead of having to think out the whole situation, about history and your group and what you are doing... if you begin from the point of view of being a victim, you've got it half-made. I mean intellectually.

We wonder if we will be the first generation in American history to leave our children with fewer opportunities and a less prosperous nation than the one we inherited.

After all, when the world looks to America, they look to us because we are the most successful political and economic experiment in human history.

History is a people's memory, and without a memory, man is demoted to the lower animals.

Storytelling in general is a communal act. Throughout human history, people would gather around, whether by the fire or at a tavern, and tell stories. One person would chime in, then another, maybe someone would repeat a story they heard already but with a different spin. It is a collective process.

There is little for the great part of the history of the world except the bitter tears of pity and the hot tears of wrath.

I feel like I am too busy writing history to read it.

I have never denied my background or my culture. I have taught my child to embrace her Mexican heritage, to love my first language, Spanish, to learn about Mexican history, music, folk art, food, and even the Mexican candy I grew up with.

This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.

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

The history of mankind is the instant between two strides taken by a traveler.

History is Philosophy teaching by example.

Unlike any other leader in modern American history, we are led today by a president that has decided to pit Americans against each other.

History is malleable. A new cache of diaries can shed new light, and archeological evidence can challenge our popular assumptions.

The history of the world is the world court of justice.

Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you!

The history of progress is written in the blood of men and women who have dared to espouse an unpopular cause, as, for instance, the black man right to his body, or woman right to her soul.

Imagine a part of the U.S.A., from which the U.S.A. started - where is the cradle of your history? This is Kosovo for Serbia.

I was bused to a school in Gerritsen Beach in Brooklyn in 1972. I was one of the first black kids in the history of the school.