Quotes About History

For it is the duty of an astronomer to compose the history of the celestial motions through careful and expert study.

You have reckoned that history ought to judge the past and to instruct the contemporary world as to the future. The present attempt does not yield to that high office. It will merely tell how it really was.

I'm not giving up my history and what I've done in my music because I love it and I'm very proud of it. I just want to open it up for more people.

Christians should be ready for a change because Jesus was the greatest changer in history.

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.

History could pass for a scarlet text, its jot and title graven red in human blood.

He could have made it right with the book. But he hasn't. He is a revisionist of history. He has lied.

When President Obama entered the White House, the economy was in a free-fall. The auto industry: on its back. The banks: frozen up. More than three million Americans had already lost their jobs. And America's bravest, our men and women in uniform, were fighting what would soon be the longest wars in our history.

History is the only true teacher, the revolution the best school for the proletariat.

The audiences are there as a result of my history with the band but also as a result of my being able to reach people with a tune.