Famous Quotes: History

It's funny, but when I arrived in California to start college I was much more interested in becoming a surfer and cruise along in life from one beach to the next. I didn't plan out any huge career for myself.
Use this quote  

Music is a fantastic peacekeeper of the world, it is integral to harmony, and it is a required fundamental of human emotion.
Use this quote  

I wish that they had the freedoms like the Japanese and the Koreans and the Mexicans and everybody else that has that freedom to come over here and play the game, because I know Cuba has a very strong baseball history.
Use this quote  

Throughout history, great leaders have known the power of humor.
Use this quote  

Someone once said that history has more imagination than all the scenario writers in the Pentagon, and we have a lot of scenario writers here. No one ever wrote a scenario for commercial airliners crashing into the World Trade Center.
Use this quote  

There has to be this pioneer, the individual who has the courage, the ambition to overcome the obstacles that always develop when one tries to do something worthwhile, especially when it is new and different.
Use this quote  

You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break.
Use this quote  

Here, again, as I conceive, gentlemen forget that this government is a republican one, resting exclusively in the intelligence and virtue of the People.
Use this quote  

That is a Medieval way of drawing history, in which they do not respect the law and want the rest of the world to respect the law. That's not possible.
Use this quote  

Animal substance seems to be the first food of all birds, even the granivorous tribes.
Use this quote  

We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over others. It has become a necessity without which a person is defenseless in this complex, industrialized society. We have truly entered the century of the educated man.
Use this quote  

I wanted to prove the sustaining power of music.
Use this quote  

A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way in which a piece of wax takes on the impress of a signet-ring without the iron or gold.
Use this quote  

The worst times can be the best if you think with positive energy.
Use this quote  

The disembodied spirit is immortal; there is nothing of it that can grow old or die. But the embodied spirit sees death on the horizon as soon as its day dawns.
Use this quote  

I'm a country girl. I have to be in nature, so my daughter is exposed to it a lot.
Use this quote  

The study of history is the beginning of political wisdom.
Use this quote  

Barack Obama is the most famous living person in the history of the world.
Use this quote  

Death is only a larger kind of going abroad.
Use this quote  

Energy, energy? Energy is, is, it's nothing more than a lot of new age hokum masquerading as religion.
Use this quote