History Quotes

In history class, I wrote a poem, 'The Royalists and the Roundheads.' I would write poems about driftwood in art class and little stories about the sun, moon, and stars in science class. Since not many kids were writing in class, I got away with it.

~ Judith Viorst

Philosophy is altogether less pure now. It's been impurified by science and social science and history.

~ Bernard Williams

The people I really do dislike are the morally unimaginative kind of evolutionary reductionists who, in the name of science, think they can explain everything in terms of our early hominid ancestors or our genes, with their combination of high-handed tone and disregard for history. Such reductive speculation encourages a really empty scientism.

~ Bernard Williams

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

~ Rosa Luxemburg

Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and history.

~ Carter G. Woodson

History is Philosophy teaching by example.

~ Thucydides

I loved the idea of making history interesting for kids! When Scholastic approached me about 'The 39 Clues', I immediately started going through the 'greatest hits' from my years as a social studies teacher, and picked the historical characters and eras that most appealed to my students.

~ Rick Riordan

In schools with a history of chaos, the teacher who can keep the classroom calm becomes virtually indispensable.

~ Jonathan Kozol

I remember being in a history lesson and saying to my teacher, 'How come you never talk about black scientists and inventors and pioneers?' And she looked at me and said, 'Because there aren't any.'

~ Malorie Blackman

I had a great drama teacher in high school, and that's when I started to learn about the history of theater.

~ Elizabeth Olsen

When I went to college, my goal was to be a college history teacher. I majored in history.

~ George J. Mitchell

This is what I would have done if I had to have a real job: I would have been a history teacher.

~ Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

My dad worked for a generator company and then UC Berkeley, and my mom was as a dental hygienist and then eventually a history teacher. My uncles and aunts, all of them are elementary school teachers or scientists.

~ Cary Fukunaga

I grew up around books - my grandmother's house, where I lived as a small child, was full of books. My father was a history teacher, and he loved the Russian novels. There were always books around.

~ John Irving

I was attending the University of Alberta. I was going to be a high school teacher, like my parents. I failed - no, I didn't fail a class, I just barely passed. I really didn't try. It was Canadian history, through the plays of the time. My God, those were boring plays.

~ Nathan Fillion

I see myself as, first and above all, a teacher of history; next, a writer of European history; next, a commentator on European affairs; next, a public intellectual voice within the American left; and only then an occasional, opportunistic participant in the pained American discussion of the Jewish matter.

~ Tony Judt

When I was really young, I wanted to be a history teacher because I was obsessed with the past.

~ Russell Tovey

In the fourth grade, my history teacher gave us a project: Why was the auto industry located in Detroit, Michigan? I didn't know I was going to be an economist, but I knew I was going to do something that was involved in answering questions like that one because I thought that was a fascinating question.

~ Mark Zandi

My history teacher could make us feel like he was imparting rare gossip to us when he was talking about Maria Theresa and the Habsburgs. I just loved that sense of - the Western canon is here, and it's gossipy and tawdry, and everyone is sort of goofy.

~ Mallory Ortberg

I think my parents were happy that I'd gone to university and gotten a degree in history so they thought, 'Well if acting doesn't work for him, he can always become a history teacher or something.' Fortunately, the acting worked out.

~ Derek Jacobi

I wanted to be what my high-school civics and history teacher thought of as a good American. That automatically involved taking an interest in government.

~ Olivia De Havilland

My history teacher was utterly terrifying, but her lessons were very inspiring. She got me interested in people and stories, which then led me to acting.

~ Laura Carmichael

If I wasn't an actor, I'd be a teacher, a history teacher. After all, teaching is very much like performing. A teacher is an actor, in a way. It takes a great deal to get, and hold, a class.

~ Richard Dreyfuss

Raphael Saadiq said to me, quite often, that Chuck D was his history teacher. And so he got a lot from the music, things that he wasn't getting maybe in school. And I feel the same way with regards to Earth, Wind & Fire, Stevie Wonder.

~ Ali Shaheed Muhammad

I grew up in Rome, in actually what I would say was a liberal, open-minded family. My father was an architect and my mother was a teacher of art history, so it was sort of intellectual, and maybe a bit much for me when I was a child.

~ Frida Giannini

History teaches us that unity is strength, and cautions us to submerge and overcome our differences in the quest for common goals, to strive, with all our combined strength, for the path to true African brotherhood and unity.

~ Haile Selassie

The lesson of 9/11 is that America is truly exceptional. We withstood the worst attack of our history, intended by our enemies to destroy us. Instead, it drew us closer and made us more united. Our love for freedom and one another has given us a strength that surprised even ourselves.

~ Rudy Giuliani

I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but the living strength and majesty of the Commonwealth and Empire; of societies old and new; of lands and races different in history and origins but all, by God's Will, united in spirit and in aim.

~ Queen Elizabeth Ii

In America we have a Declaration of Independence, but our history, our advancements, our global strength all point to an American declaration of interdependence.

~ Cory Booker

No force can conquer the service personnel and people who, in support of their great leader, have turned out in the struggle to defend their country with confidence in the validity of their cause and their own strength - this is a law and a truth taught by history.

~ Kim Jong-Un

Punk rock has never really had much patience with musical virtuosity. Actually, it'd be more accurate to say that for most of its history, punk has been actively hostile to virtuosity.

~ James Surowiecki

Honestly, I didn't have the patience for biology or history in an academic sense, but I always liked the kind of big questions.

~ Andrew Bird

Surely martyrs, irrespective of the special phase of the divine idea for which they gladly give up their bodies to torture and to death, are the truest heroes of history.

~ Katharine Lee Bates

In our brief national history we have shot four of our presidents, worried five of them to death, impeached one and hounded another out of office. And when all else fails, we hold an election and assassinate their character.

~ P. J. O'rourke

In this decisive hour of our national history, union means life and division means death.

~ Bao Dai

In the early days of aviation, there was a great deal of experimentation and a high death rate.

~ Elon Musk

Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out.

~ Carl Sagan

The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.

~ Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Gender equality cannot be achieved by cutting programs that allow girls to get the same chance to compete, learn, and play. The United States has had a solid history of commitment to its female athletes and expanding opportunity for women, and it is imperative that we continue on this path.

~ Linda Sanchez

The arc of our history is toward more equality being expanded to more and more people.

~ George Takei