History Was Quotes

#1. The largest outbreak of bird flu in American history was an H5N2 virus, which led to the deaths of 17 million domestic birds and cost the nation more than $400 million during an outbreak in Pennsylvania that started in 1983.

Michael Greger

#2. Never in history was there a method devised of such efficacy for setting each country's advantage at variance with its neighbours' as the international gold (or, formerly, silver) standard.

John Maynard Keynes

#3. History was haunted by the ghosts of buried crimes, which required periodic exorcisms of truth. Actions had consequences. Will

Libba Bray

#4. History was gathering itself to deliver another blow

Douglas Adams

#5. All God's righteous hatred of all that sin from all of human history was poured out upon Christ as He hung there on that cross.

James MacDonald

#6. Even the Sovereign couldn't change History, but he could decide how History was interpreted ...

Heidi Ruby Miller

#7. History was always buried deep, even when you know where to look. And it was hard to excavate it without damaging it. Brushes and cotton swabs, not chisels and pickaxes. Slow work. You had to like doing it.

Maggie Stiefvater

#8. I loved history because to me, history was like watching a movie.

Quentin Tarantino

#9. In my generation, history was taught in terms of grand figures, men on whom the destiny of the nation hinged, quintessential heroes.

Barry Unsworth

#10. What could I do, to make the most of this day, whether I was in my own day, or this one? What amazing history was I seeing firsthand? Would I embrace it, instead of crying and whining? Was it in me to be grateful for my situation? Truly in me?

Lisa Tawn Bergren

#11. My only advice is, follow your dream and do whatever you like to do the most. I chose journalism because I wanted to be in the places where history was being made.

Jorge Ramos

#12. What will I do with the fact that I am only one? I will realize that everyone who has changed history was also only one.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#13. It was one of the greatest errors in evaluating dictatorship to say that the dictator forces himself on society against its own will. In reality, every dictator in history was nothing but the accentuation of already existing state ideas which he had only to exaggerate in order to gain power

Wilhelm Reich

#14. History was a series of decisions about what to tell and a series of accidents about what survived after telling. Not truth, but a historian could search for truth, and the search was as worthy as any other human activity.

David Drake

#15. Shared history was the coin of the realm.

Chris Matthews

#16. I have stood in the places where history was made. I have seen with my own eyes the part that men and women of faith have played in these earthshaking events, and I have heard with my own ears their cries for freedom.

Billy Graham

#17. Making history was so much better than writing it.

Kate Quinn

#18. In the past, history was always written by the victors. But in the age of Twitter, history is written by everyone.

Nick Bilton

#19. History was easy, but I don't know about the Calculus. It seemed like it was making sense, so that probably means I failed.

Stephenie Meyer

#20. This corner of history was as real as the tiled floor under our feet or the wooden tabletop under our fingers. The people to whom it had happened had actually lived and breathed and felt and thought and then died, as we did - as we would.

Elizabeth Kostova

#21. I had no idea that history was being made. I was just tired of giving up.

Rosa Parks

#22. A woman's death, through much of the same history, was thought to be a simpler thing, preferably quiet and uncomplaining, or tragically in childbirth. Just as women were denied the right and the capacity to a full life, they were denied the right and the capacity to a full death as well.

Robert C. Solomon

#23. Walshes had been taking advantage of gullibility and stupidity ever since they conned their fellow cavemen out of their spears. Highwaymen, pirates, swindlers, and card sharks . . . their family history was both colorful and dark.

Kelley Armstrong

#24. The world at night, for much of history, was a very dark place indeed.

Bill Bryson

#25. In fact, if there had ever been one real revolution, there would be no more history. Unity
would have been achieved, and death would have been satiated. That is why all revolutionaries finally
aspire to world unity and act as though they believed that history was concluded.

Albert Camus

#26. What if history was changed? slavery reversed
Would black ladies see white boys and clinch they purse?

Fredro Starr

#27. All the old history was written for the amusement of the ruling classes. The lower classes couldn't read, and their rulers didn't care about remembering what happened to them.

Frank Zappa

#28. She probably thought I was making a dumb joke, but sometimes history sounded like a dumb joke. History was either a dumb joke or a cruel joke.

Alan DeNiro

#29. For the world did not change, this violence had always existed and would never be eradicated, men would die under the boot and fists and horror of other men until the end of time, and all human history was a history of violence.

Richard Flanagan

#30. the Stefansplatz, where the largest spontaneous demonstration in Austrian history was held - to celebrate the Anschluss and Hitler's surprise tour of the city - in the spring of 1938.

Tom Reiss

#31. Nowhere on the planet, nowhere in history, was there a regime more vicious, more bloodthirsty, and at the same time more cunning than the Bolshevik, the self-styled Soviet regime.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#32. Once upon a season,
a heart was kissed by poetry.
That very same heart grew into a magnificent tree.
Its branches were made of pure honesty
as love grew from its leaves.
Its history was composed of you and I.

Delano Johnson

#33. People say history was written by the winners. No, it wasn't. It was written by the bullies.

Colin Quinn

#34. One's sovereignty over the land is expressed most powerfully in the act of banishment. Perhaps the first eviction recorded in human history was Adam and Eve's.

Matthew Desmond

#35. All history was at first oral.

Samuel Johnson

#36. History was a tangled thing, people were resilient, and the one constant law of the world was that it would heal.

Brenna Yovanoff

#37. The reason I moved to Nashville was because I was reading biographies of a lot of my country music heroes, and I thought it would be better to actually go where the history was, as opposed to just reading about it.

Lindi Ortega

#38. About two hundred or two hundred and fifty years after the death of Grettir, his history was committed to writing, and then it became fixed - nothing further was added to it, and we have his story after having travelled down over two hundred years as a tradition.

Sabine Baring-Gould

#39. In general the assumption of all of us, child or adult, was that this was a new country and that a new country had no history. History was something that applied to other places.

Wallace Stegner

#40. History was like some vast thing that was always over the tight horizon, invisible except in its effects. It was what happened when you weren't looking
an unknowable infinity of events, which although out of control, controlled everything.

Kim Stanley Robinson

#41. The truth is that real history was a lot more complicated than our popular understandings lead us to believe.

Marie Brennan

#42. Throughout this evolution from left to right, Beard always detested war. Hence his writings were slanted to show that the military side of history was insignificant or a mere reflection of economic forces.

Samuel E. Morison

#43. What if history was a gambler, instead of a force in a laboratory experiment, and the boys his ace in the hole? What if history was not a reasonable citizen, but a madman full of paranoid guile and these boys his agents, his big surprise! His own revenge?

Ralph Ellison

#44. And when the man who commanded a nuclear arsenal and the greatest military in history was frightened, it meant that something other than human intervention was required. That, unfortunately, was part of Zach's job every day now. That was where Nathaniel Cade came in

Christopher Farnsworth

#45. The simple truth? History was never simply history. If it was anything it was another collar - another means to control.

Chris Galford

#46. At an unprecedented time with the worst attack ever on our soil, our President displayed extraordinary determination, leadership and resolve when history was thrust upon him and the United States.

Olympia Snowe

#47. Belgium, where there occurred one of the rare appearances of the hero in history, was lifted above herself by the uncomplicated conscience of her King and, faced with the choice to acquiesce or resist, took less than three hours to make her decision, knowing it might be mortal.

Barbara W. Tuchman

#48. I would hazard a guess that we have found fossilized human remains of at least a thousand different specimens in South and East Africa, more or less complete at that. I think this is where the prelude to human history was primarily played out.

Richard Leakey

#49. History was a hobby for about, oh, 20 years before I got into print.

Alison Weir

#50. I did not say history was bunk. It was bunk to me . I did not need it very bad.

Henry Ford

#51. The Hmong never had any interest in ruling over the Chinese or anyone else; they wanted merely to be left alone, which, as their later history was also to illustrate, may be the most difficult request any minority can make of a majority culture.

Anne Fadiman

#52. When it was all over
the centuries started
to roll by

and history was written
by those
with no stories

misery turned into myth
and figures of speech
played catalyst
to happiness

Banoo Zan

#53. My history was the Western. I grew up with the Lone Ranger, the Cisco Kid and Bonanza. I felt as much a child of the West as someone born in Montana or Wyoming.

Clive Sinclair

#54. Education is a tender garden, whereas ignorance is weeds. History - the old history - was full of examples proving that, when civilizations fell, learning was the first thing to disappear.

Anonymous

#55. The people who lived beside the river for thousands of years, and whose history was intertwined with that landscape, have been very effectively excluded from ts recorded narrative.

Helen Humphreys

#56. Still, whencesoever derived, the Egyptian people, as it existed in the flourishing time of Egyptian history, was beyond all question a mixed race, showing different affinities.

George Rawlinson

#57. The hottest year in global [sic] history was 1934.

Glenn Beck

#58. Carlin often said that history was everything, for it was in man's nature to make the same mistakes over and over.

Erika Johansen

#59. History was my favourite subject at school and in my spare time I read historical novels voraciously from Heidi to the Scarlet Pimpernel and from Georgette Heyer to Agatha Christie.

Sara Sheridan

#60. History was safer than the news, because there was no question of how it would end. ~ "The Briefcase

Rebecca Makkai

#61. History was like looking into others' lives, learning how they lived, what they did, how they thought, and even how they loved.

Max Vos

#62. Of all studies, the most delightful and the most useful is biography. The seeds of great events lie near the surface; historians delve too deep for them. No history was ever true. Lives I have read which, if they were not, had the appearance, the interest, and the utility of truth.

Walter Savage Landor

#63. Hegel said that history was the story of freedom becoming conscious of itself.

Christopher Hitchens

#64. History knew the truth. History was the most inhuman product of humanity.It scooped up the whole of human will and, like the goddess Kali in Calcutta, dripped blood from its mouth as it bit and crunched.

Yukio Mishima

#65. History was more than just stories, he reminded himself as the men walked forward with their burdens. It taught lessons as well.

Conn Iggulden

#66. History was what had happened; class was something you read about in a book.

Amit Chaudhuri

#67. The first phase of American political history was characterized by the conflict between the Federalists and the Republicans, and it resulted in the complete triumph of the latter.

Herbert Croly

#68. Serious history was the West, and the West was white.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

#69. English history consists largely of royal people getting their heads chopped off ... Needless to say, this brand of history was a hit with our son.

Dave Barry

#70. All history was a palimpsest, scraped clean and re-inscribed exactly as often as was necessary. In no case would it have been possible, once the deed was done, to prove that any falsification had taken place.

George Orwell

#71. He said the reason we studied history was to find out why things were the way they were, how we got here. He said you could do anything you wanted to people who didn't know their history. That was the way a totalitarian system worked.

Janet Fitch

#72. The saddest day in Pixar history was when some guy said 'get Larry the Cable Guy on the phone.

Andy Kindler

#73. Before the tears that tore us, when our history was before us.

Lang Leav

#74. I was taking a nap in the theater one day while I ditched English, when I looked up and saw Jess on the stage. I had to pinch myself, because I figured either I was dreaming or else I'd died and gone to heaven - which given my history was probably not where I'd end up.

Carolee Dean

#75. History was full of the bones of good men who'd followed bad orders in the hope that they could soften the blow. Oh, yes, there were worse things they could do, but most of them began right where they started following bad orders.

Terry Pratchett

#76. The moment I realised that my history was an excuse for nothing, was the moment I was freed from my history. The great danger of history is that we use it as an excuse and remain trapped in it. I cannot blame my history for anything, and therefore I have to have high standards for myself.

Stefan Molyneux

#77. The mainstreaming of African American history was a byproduct of the long black freedom struggle, the early black history movement, and the black student movement of the Black Power era.

Pero Gaglo Dagbovie

#78. Making a history was not what I wanted to do. I wanted to construct something more powerful than that

Claude Lanzmann

#79. The Medicare Part D prescription drug bill, which might be the most corrupt piece of legislation in history, was a huge giveaway of taxpayer funds to the big pharmaceutical companies.

Al Franken

#80. You could grow up in the city where history was made and still miss it all.

Jonathan Lethem

#81. Believe me when I say that some of the most amazing music in history was made on equipment that's not as good as what you own right now.

Jol Dantzig

#82. The basic lesson of Indian history was already established. Material power like kingdoms, and kings, including Alexander the Great, comes and goes. But spiritual power, embodied in religion and caste and spiritual unity with Brahman, the changeless essence of the universe, lasts forever. Prime

Arthur Herman

#83. History was an artist, maintaining the idea but changing the details, like a composer keeping the same theme but dulling it to a minor or lifting by an octave, now crooning it with violins, now blaring it on trumpets.

George R. Stewart

#84. No human being in history was all good or all bad, or all black or all white.

Anastasia Griffith

#85. It sometimes seems to me that the whole course of English history was one of accident, confusion, chance and unintended consequences - there's no real pattern.

Peter Ackroyd

#86. My history is my step to future , whatever the history was full of garbage, but I can get over it and get to the TOP with my History

Ahmed Farrag

#87. For long, history was mainly political history, and historical narrative was confined to an account of the most important crises in political life, or to an account of wars and great generals.

Michael Rostovtzeff

#88. All ancient history was written with a moral object; the ethical interest predominates almost to the exclusion of all others.

Tacitus

#89. I'll always remember the day Daddy took me on a journey . . . the day history was made with one million men and me.

Kelly Starling Lyons

#90. I look at history, there's not a government on the planet I respect. No country in history was ever safe to its women; internet sex is $100 billion a year industry, and 15-20 million men a day have sex with a child in sexual slavery.

Patch Adams

#91. History was interesting to the extent that it was catastrophic and, while that might make absorbing viewing, it made horrible living.

Isaac Asimov

#92. Define history. Was it the sequence of factual past events, the stories about the factual sequence of past events, or the interpretation of the stories about past events?

Josh Lanyon

#93. God decided that this time in history was perfect for you to glorify Him and make an eternal difference. So God gave you unique gifts, talents, passions, and experiences to propel you into your life purpose.

Craig Groeschel

#94. Good fiction is about asserting the beauties of the world, inventing a new, positive thing. Where am I going to get that? And it should be original; it should not be cliched. So the way I looked at history was not to accuse it of failure.

Orhan Pamuk

#95. History was once the future, the future will create history.

Daniel J. Hill

#96. History was about to intervene: real adventure, real escape and adulthood were lurking, laughing, round the corner

Kate Morton

#97. Two thousand years ago, in the Middle East, an event occurred that permanently changed the world. Because of that event, history was split. Every time you write a date, you're using the Resurrection of Jesus Christ as the focal point.

Rick Warren

#98. Introverts understand; the loneliest human in history was just happy to have a few minutes of peace and quiet.

Randall Munroe

#99. The worst pandemic in modern history was the Spanish flu of 1918, which killed tens of millions of people. Today, with how interconnected the world is, it would spread faster.

Bill Gates

#100. History was always the subject that I loved the most, and I felt it gave me the deepest sense of our humanity and who we are and where we're going.

Julia Bacha