Famous Quotes: History

This is a moment in history where it is almost hard to catch your breath.
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What is history but a fable agreed upon?
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I wouldn't attach too much importance to these student riots. I remember when I was a student at the Sorbonne in Paris, I used to go out and riot occasionally.
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Those who invoke history will certainly be heard by history. And they will have to accept its verdict.
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We are so fortunate, as Australians, to have among us the oldest continuing cultures in human history. Cultures that link our nation with deepest antiquity. We have Aboriginal rock art in the Kimberley that is as ancient as the great Palaeolithic cave paintings at Altamira and Lascaux in Europe.
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Like a lot of Irish households we read a lot of Irish history. It was almost Soviet, raising the next generation with a mythic view of their history.
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History will point out some of the things I did wrong and some of the things I did right.
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I think really, China, Chinese, I think they really have a long history of civilization, rich culture.
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We have a harder way to succeed in life as Serbs because of the past that we had and because of the history we had.
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History shows that there are no invincible armies.
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The rebuilding of New Orleans is an important point in the history of the United States.
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Failure is impossible.
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There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.
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Asking the author of historical novels to teach you about history is like expecting the composer of a melody to provide answers about radio transmission.
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If the history of the past fifty years teaches us anything, it is that peace does not follow disarmament - disarmament follows peace.
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September 11 was terrible but, if one goes back over the history of the IRA, what happened to the Americans wasn't that terrible.
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While we are living in the present, we must celebrate life every day, knowing that we are becoming history with every work, every action, every deed.
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I take pride in being one of the most successful producers in hip-hop history, having the most successful record in hip-hop history, I have the most number ones.
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The history of America is to expand civil liberties in a responsible and civil manner. We need to remember that our wonderful Democracy with its freedoms has been working.
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History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
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