History Quotes About the Past & Its Lessons – Page 5 | GloryQuotes

Today, in American imperialism, the commodity has reached its most grandiose historical manifestation.

C. L. R. James

There is nothing new in the world except the history you do not know.

Harry S. Truman

Is there in all the history of human folly a greater fool than a clergymen in politics?

Pat Robertson

The Sixties are now considered a historical period, just like the Roman Empire.

History and experience tell us that moral progress comes not in comfortable and complacent times, but out of trial and confusion.

Gerald R. Ford

History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

There's a preoccupation with memory and the operation of memory and a rather rapacious interest in history.

Penelope Lively

Man wants to be reconciled to God; wants to know that the past is forgiven.

Matthew Simpson

The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes.

Without the connotation good or bad, bin Laden's a great man in the sense that he's influenced the course of history.

Michael Scheuer

Our culture, language, history, and values are vital to uniting us as a nation.

Bobby Jindal

We never, ever in the history of mankind have had access to so much information so quickly and so easily.

Vinton Cerf

Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Employer contribution pension plans have become increasingly popular throughout the past two decades.

Ron Lewis

At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard the past.

Maurice Maeterlinck

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

Research can be a big clunker. It's difficult to know how you can make the historical light.

Michael Ondaatje

I want to praise activists through the years. I praise those of the past as well, to have them honored.

Studs Terkel

Isn't history ultimately the result of our fear of boredom?

Emile M. Cioran

Those who invoke history will certainly be heard by history. And they will have to accept its verdict.

Dag Hammarskjold

We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

John F. Kennedy

History does not merely touch on language, but takes place in it.

In charting our course to the future, we are mindful of our path from the past.

Brad Henry

What I find interesting about folklore is the dialogue it gives us with storytellers from centuries past.

Terri Windling

Every event that a man would master must be mounted on the run, and no man ever caught the reins of a thought except as it galloped past him.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Prepare for the unknown by studying how others in the past have coped with the unforeseeable and the unpredictable.

George S. Patton

Young people have been at the forefront of every great social movement in our country's history.

Sherrod Brown

President Bush has consistently used rhetoric, and that is not convincing given his past record.

Grace Napolitano

Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past.

Lewis Mumford

Ambivalence about family responsibilities has a long history in the corporate world.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

Only through acknowledgment of the erasure and void of Jewish life can the history of Berlin and Europe have a human future.

Daniel Libeskind

This above all makes history useful and desirable; it unfolds before our eyes a glorious record of exemplary actions.

Titus Livius

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 make today.

The state can be and has often been in the course of history the main source of mischief and disaster.

Ludwig von Mises

The history of art is the history of revivals.

In exile, I have tried to profit by the past and prepare for the future.

Lajos Kossuth

The Internet is the most important single development in the history of human communication since the invention of call waiting.

History is a facsimile of events held together by finally biographical information.

Robert Smithson

First of all, you can make the argument that there's no such thing as the past. Nobody lived in the past.

David McCullough

Sweetheart, I'm the biggest ripped-off cartoonist in the history of the world, and that's all I'm going to say.

Ralph Bakshi

The history of the Church of Rome is a constant leakage of members into such breakaway cults, which go on splitting.

Mary Douglas

You had to make an appointment to see her. But it was just a crazy spectacle, people filing past.

Eddie Campbell

Have you heard a single national figure tell you all of the crises of the recent past are not economic, they're cultural?

Newt Gingrich

Denver is a city that will be far more defined by its future than its past.

John Hickenlooper

Since creation of the E.U. a half century ago, Europe has enjoyed the longest period of peace in its history.

John Bruton

We know the past and its great events, the present in its multitudinous complications, chiefly through faith in the testimony of others.

Matthew Simpson

I love studying Ancient History and seeing how empires rise and fall, sowing the seeds of their own destruction.

Martin Scorsese

For the first time in our history, ideology and theology hold a monopoly of power in Washington.

Bill Moyers