History Quotes

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.

There are a lot of really good Punjabi films with great content pertaining to family drama, romance, and history.

I was an art history major, but never specifically contemporary. I would say where I really stopped were the abstract expressionists in the New York school.

The people who have impacted the world didn’t live long. Martin Luther King. John F. Kennedy. These people who impact the world were not old people, but they lived so effectively that we cannot erase them from history.

Historians are prophets with their face turned backward.

The flag is the embodiment, not of sentiment, but of history.

I know this will come as a shock to you, Mr. Goldwyn, but in all history, which has held billions and billions of human beings, not a single one ever had a happy ending.

The history of a movement, the history of a nation, the history of a race is the guide-post of that movement’s destiny, that nation’s destiny, that race’s destiny.

Myth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how reliable that is.

The great and abiding lesson of American history, particularly the Cold War, is that the engine of capitalism – the individual – is mightier than any collective.