You can't walk alone. Many have given the illusion, but none have really walked alone. Man is not made that way. Each man is bedded in his people, their history, their culture, and their values.

Even in high school I was very interested in history - why people do the things they do. As a kid I spent a lot of time trying to relate the past to the present.

You don't change the course of history by turning the faces of portraits to the wall.

No people in history have ever survived who thought they could protect their freedom by making themselves inoffensive to their enemies.

History is mostly guessing the rest is prejudice.

Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard.

The character and history of each child may be a new and poetic experience to the parent, if he will let it.

I know there's some kind of history to mountain music-like it came from Ireland or England or Scotland and we kept up the tradition.

In many ways, history is marked as 'before' and 'after' Rosa Parks. She sat down in order that we all might stand up, and the walls of segregation came down.

We are living in the machine age. For the first time in history the comedian has been compelled to supply himself with jokes and comedy material to compete with the machine. Whether he knows it or not, the comedian is on a treadmill to oblivion.