951 private quotes tagged history

“America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization.”— Georges Clemenceau

“I don't know the history of my sport. I'm not like those people who know everything.”— Usain Bolt

“With our knowledge of modern-day genetics, we realize that it was possible for God to place the potential for all people throughout history into the genes of Adam and Eve when He created them.”— Walter Lang

“I'm the fourth generation to be in show business. It's pretty neat it's nice to have that family history.”— Rachel Bilson

“God has never, in the history of mankind, allowed his name to go long offended.”— David Wilkerson

“You have to be there not for the fame and glory and recognition and being a page in a history book, but you have to be there because you believe your talent and ability can be applied effectively to operation of the spacecraft.”— Alan Shepard

“The path towards a free society has not been simple. There are tragic and glorious pages in our history.”— Vladimir Putin

“I'm not sure history has ended.”— John Bolton

“I wanted to make sure that the man who found the genie would not take terrible advantage of her, so he needed to be a person of integrity and honor - which is why I made the male lead an astronaut. The rest, as they say, is history.”— Sidney Sheldon

“If I had a choice as to my perfect career, I would make a couple of films a year and then concentrate on natural history.”— Dominic Monaghan

“It was one of those great miracles of history that they managed to smuggle an Enigma machines out to Britain just before they were invaded by the Nazis.”— Michael Apted

“If the history of the past fifty years teaches us anything, it is that peace does not follow disarmament - disarmament follows peace.”— Bernard Baruch

“I am intrigued by inanimate objects. They're a piece of history, someone's statement and ideas of life.”— Mike Mills

“To this wonderful page in our country's history another more glorious still will be added, and the slave shall show at last to his free brothers a sharpened sword forged from the links of his fetters.”— Giuseppe Garibaldi

“Providence conceals itself in the details of human affairs, but becomes unveiled in the generalities of history.”— Alphonse de Lamartine

“There's a difference between knowing what's on the page in a history book and actually feeling that page have curves and valleys.”— Garth Brooks

“When history is erased, people's moral values are also erased.”— Ma Jian

“Life doesn't just happen it's constructed through the history of power. And that's something I am interested in and so is the art world: a world that's trying to engage socially, with a leftist slant, to work out how we got here.”— Mike Mills

“In Thailand's history there have been dissensions from time to time, but in general, unity has prevailed.”— Bhumibol Adulyadej

“I think there's a lot of deep-rooted history in England with racing. Lots of Formula One teams are based there. Formula One is obviously a huge sport over in England and Europe.”— Danica Patrick

“Watch the History Channel if you want it literal and historically perfect.”— Emily Blunt

“I know every note in every song, the whole history of it, even parts that were there and are gone.”— Enya

“From a reality perspective, I'm sure part of that is true, but this is the largest blackout in U.S. history. If that is not a signal that we have got a problem that needs to be fixed, I don't know what is.”— Jennifer Granholm

“Crazy Horse saw history as integrated in the present, incorporated into daily life.”— Stephen Ambrose

“Meditation while walking has a long, noble history in ancient spiritual disciplines.”— Andrew Weil