Top 20 history quotes of celebrity
History Quotes
1. I'm the only person of distinction who has ever had a depression named for him.
Herbert Hoover
2. We awoke one morning in September, and the world lurched on its axis.
Jeb Bush
3. Democratic nations must try to find ways to starve the terrorist and the hijacker of the oxygen of publicity on which they depend.
Margaret Thatcher
4. Statutes authorizing unreasonable searches were the core concern of the framers of the 4th Amendment.
Sandra Day O'Connor
5. The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.
William James
6. People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them. James A. Baldwin
7. Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years.
Will Durant
8. Something as curious as the monarchy won't survive unless you take account of people's attitudes. After all, if people don't want it, they won't have it.
Prince Charles
9. The past is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets and re-explains what has happened.
Peter L. Berger
10. The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future. Jessamyn West
11. Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon. July 1969 AD. We came in peace for all mankind.
Neil Armstrong
12. That great dust-heap called 'history'.
Augustine Birrell
13. We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.
John F. Kennedy
14. I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief... For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
Wendell Berry
15. It's a very good historical book about history.
Dan Quayle
16. It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise.
Henry A. Kissinger
17. A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us.
Margaret Thatcher
18. History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
19. There are no extraordinary men... just extraordinary circumstances that ordinary men are forced to deal with.
William Halsey
20. Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil to thee. And those will be thy best friends, not to whom thou hast done good, but who have done good to thee.
Tacitus