Famous History Sayings

#1. I heard some famous people had an anniversary, five long years together, it was Hollywood history. Now my grandma and grandpa never made no printed page, but they took the love of 57 years right to the grave.

Clay Walker

#2. A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas - a place where history comes to life.

Norman Cousins

#3. In the history of a soul's evolution there is a critical point of the human incarnation that decides for us whether we stay there, go down or progress upwards. There is a knot of worldly desires impeding us; cut the knot by mastering desires and go forward. This done, progress is assured.

Virchand Gandhi

#4. The famous names throughout history-be they heroes or villains-if they accomplished anything notable, they were passionate. Passion is what drives those who accomplish momentous feats, for good or evil.

Andrew Williams

#5. To a surprising extent the war-lords in shining armour, the apostles of martial virtues, tend not to die fighting when time comes. History is full of ignominious getaways by the great and famous.

George Orwell

#6. I just want to make sure I'm contributing good films to movie history rather than being famous just to be famous.

Logan Lerman

#7. THE FACE OF HISTORY is not in the well-preserved faces of the famous, but in the remains of those who lived in the moment

Gerry Burnie

#8. Imagine if baseball were taught the way science is taught in most inner-city schools. Schoolchildren would get lectures about the history of the World Series. High school students would occasionally reproduce famous plays of the past. Nobody would get in the game themselves until graduate school.

Alison Gopnik

#9. Barack Obama hopes his famous health care victory will mark him as a transformative president. History, however, may judge it to have been his missed opportunity to be one.

George Will

#10. All great and famous people understand that the chief priority in their life is to discover oneself, ones calling and to devote one's life to its fulfilment

Sunday Adelaja

#11. You make a name for yourself when you take on responsibilities and constantly solve problems

Sunday Adelaja

#12. Gentlemen, you are about to witness the most famous victory in history.

Adolf Hitler

#13. I can't imagine anybody who has spoken to more, or presented more non-famous people on television in the history of the world.

Jerry Springer

#14. The most common form of giantism is a condition called acromegaly, and acromegaly is caused by a benign tumor on your pituitary gland that causes an overproduction of human growth hormone. And throughout history, many of the most famous giants have all had acromegaly.

Malcolm Gladwell

#15. The world will never know you because you have not become a slave of your gift

Sunday Adelaja

#16. I am thrilled to write 'The Treasure Chest,' and to bring to life not only the childhoods of famous people from history, but also the characters of Maisie and Felix, who I hope you will fall in love with just as I have!

Ann Hood

#17. I think fame is something that you've achieved in your inner self that becomes known to others outside you. There are really very few famous people in history.

James Purdy

#18. I really couldn't say how famous I really am, that's for the history books to decide. But I'll probably be pretty up there.

Zach Braff

#19. Making a name for yourself comes from working hard

Sunday Adelaja

#20. The greatest thinkers in history certainly knew the value of shifting the mind into low gear. Charles Darwin described himself as a slow thinker. Einstein was famous for spending ages staring into space in his office at Princeton University.

Carl Honore

#21. You make name for yourself when you overcome pain, weakness, laziness and ignorance

Sunday Adelaja

#22. Some of the most famous people in history never got a dinner!

Red Buttons

#23. Marx and Engels are arguably history's most famous couple. Such was the closeness of their collaboration that it is not always easy to recall which works bore both names, which just that of Marx, and which just Engels.

Martin Jacques

#24. Pierre Curie, a brilliant scientist, happened to marry a still more brilliant one - Marie, the famous Madame Curie - and is the only great scientist in history who is consistently identified as the husband of someone else.

Isaac Asimov

#25. Two famous happy warriors - Reagan and his political soulmate, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher - knew they were fighting their own ideological and external wars. But they did so with the sunny dispositions and positive outlooks of those who knew they were on the right side of history.

Monica Crowley

#26. If you think Abraham Lincoln became famous for inventing the town car, it is time to spend a few hours on history.

Bo Bennett

#27. Vidal Sassoon was the most famous hairstylist in the history of the world.

John Paul DeJoria

#28. Great people become great due to the framework, routines and habits they have set for themselves

Sunday Adelaja

#29. Even David Hume, one of history most famous skeptics, said it's just barely possible that God exists.

Peter Kreeft

#30. In the words of a very famous dead person, 'A nation that does not know its history is doomed to do poorly on the Scholastic Aptitude Test.

Dave Barry

#31. Turing was a quite brilliant mathematician, most famous for his work on breaking the German Enigma codes. It is no exaggeration to say that, without his outstanding contribution, the history of the Second World War could have been very different.

Gordon Brown

#32. The stones themselves are thick with history, and those cats that dash through the alleyways must surely be the ghosts of the famous dead in feline disguise.

Erica Jong

#33. Barack Obama is the most famous living person in the history of the world.

Dee Dee Myers

#34. Among famous traitors of history one might mention the weather.

Ilka Chase

#35. The Xanthus or Scamander is not a mere dry channel and bed of a mountain torrent, but fed by the ever-flowing springs of fame ...
and I trust that I may be allowed to associate our muddy but much abused Concord River with the most famous in history.

Henry David Thoreau

#36. In some far-off distant time, when the twentieth century history of primitive computing is just a murky memory, someone is likely to suppose that devices known as logic gates were named after the famous co-founder of Microsoft Corporation

Charles Petzold

#37. The cracking of old and famous structures is slow and internal, while the facade holds.

Barbara W. Tuchman

#38. Making name for yourself requires you not to stop and consider you have done enough but rather continue to move forward

Sunday Adelaja

#39. How many writers in history have ever been as famous as Stephen King? He casts an awfully long shadow.

Christopher Golden

#40. Why do they murder and why do they hate us? Because all of them ... 80 years of history, they all want to conquer the world, they all rejected Jesus and they're all famous for murder. Nazis, Shintoists, Communists and the Mohammedists. Every one of them the same way.

Phil Robertson

#41. The Oceanic White Tip is considered one of the most dangerous sharks in the sea along with the Great White and Tiger. It is responsible for some of the most famous episodes of man-eating in history, such as when the U.S.S. Indianapolis sank in 1945.

Brian Skerry

#42. I made my name". What does this mean? It means that a man has successfully graduated through the process of inner self-development

Sunday Adelaja

#43. Women are practically invisible on the pages of Canadian history textbooks, too often overshadowed by the feats of famous men.

Merna Forster

#44. Despite centuries of English literature, the most famous split infinitive in all of history comes from Star Trek.

R. Curtis Venture

#45. People say that Nagasaki is famous for persecution and devastation, for it has known much in it's history. But Nagasaki is not the only place that has experienced both persecution and destruction The reason Nagasaki is famous, is because it is rebuilt, because it has always survived.

Takashi Nagai