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Etta James on history
Author: Etta James“You can’t fake this music. You might be a great singer or a great musician but, in the need, that’s got nothing to do with it. It’s how you connect to the songs and to the history behind them.” -Etta James
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Tom Hiddleston on history
Author: Tom Hiddleston“You look at the greatest villains in human history, the fascists, the autocrats, they all wanted people to kneel before them because they don’t love themselves enough.” -Tom Hiddleston
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Herman Cain on history
Author: Herman Cain“The Democrats co-opted the credit for the Civil Rights Act of 1964. But if you go back and look at the history, a larger percentage of Republicans voted for that than did Democrats. But a Democrat president signed it, so they co-opted credit for having passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting…
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W. H. Auden on history
Author: W. H. Auden“May it not be that, just as we have to have faith in Him, God has to have faith in us and, considering the history of the human race so far, may it not be that ‘faith’ is even more difficult for Him than it is for us?” -W. H. Auden
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Jimmy Carter on history
Author: Jimmy Carter“The Carter Center has the only existing international taskforce on disease eradication. Which means a total elimination of a disease on the face of the Earth. In the history of the world, there’s only been one disease eradicated: smallpox. The second disease, I think, is gonna be guinea worm.” -Jimmy Carter
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Malcolm Muggeridge on history
Author: Malcolm Muggeridge“History will see advertising as one of the real evil things of our time. It is stimulating people constantly to want things, want this, want that.” -Malcolm Muggeridge
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Tim Robbins on history
Author: Tim Robbins“I learned much more about acting from philosophy courses, psychology courses, history and anthropology than I ever learned in acting class.” -Tim Robbins
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William Jennings Bryan on history
Author: William Jennings Bryan“My place in history will depend on what I can do for the people and not on what the people can do for me.” -William Jennings Bryan
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Christina Aguilera on history
Author: Christina Aguilera“I love doing normal things – movies, shopping, going out with friends, writing, reading, taking hot bubble baths – that’s a big one for relaxation. I also love to go to art and history museums.” -Christina Aguilera
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Martin Scorsese on history
Author: Martin Scorsese“I love studying Ancient History and seeing how empires rise and fall, sowing the seeds of their own destruction.” -Martin Scorsese
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Charles A. Beard on history
Author: Charles A. Beard“All the lessons of history in four sentences: Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad with power. The mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly small. The bee fertilizes the flower it robs. When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.” -Charles A. Beard
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Marty Meehan on history
Author: Marty Meehan“Black History Month must be more than just a month of remembrance it should be a tribute to our history and reminder of the work that lies in the months and years ahead.” -Marty Meehan
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Chris Rock on history
Author: Chris Rock“I was bused to a school in Gerritsen Beach in Brooklyn in 1972. I was one of the first black kids in the history of the school.” -Chris Rock
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Emma Goldman on history
Author: Emma Goldman“The history of progress is written in the blood of men and women who have dared to espouse an unpopular cause, as, for instance, the black man’s right to his body, or woman’s right to her soul.” -Emma Goldman
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Friedrich Schiller on history
Author: Friedrich Schiller“The history of the world is the world’s court of justice.” -Friedrich Schiller
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Elie Wiesel on history
Author: Elie Wiesel“It all happened so fast. The ghetto. The deportation. The sealed cattle car. The fiery altar upon which the history of our people and the future of mankind were meant to be sacrificed.” -Elie Wiesel
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Carter G. Woodson on history
Author: Carter G. Woodson“And thus goes segregation which is the most far-reaching development in the history of the Negro since the enslavement of the race.” -Carter G. Woodson
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Nikita Khrushchev on history
Author: Nikita Khrushchev“Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you!” -Nikita Khrushchev
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Gertrude Stein on history
Author: Gertrude Stein“History takes time. History makes memory.” -Gertrude Stein
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Woodrow Wilson on history
Author: Woodrow Wilson“It is like writing history with lightning and my only regret is that it is all so terribly true.” -Woodrow Wilson
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Ken Burns on history
Author: Ken Burns“History is malleable. A new cache of diaries can shed new light, and archeological evidence can challenge our popular assumptions.” -Ken Burns
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Thucydides on history
Author: Thucydides“History is Philosophy teaching by example.” -Thucydides
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Franz Kafka on history
Author: Franz Kafka“The history of mankind is the instant between two strides taken by a traveler.” -Franz Kafka
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Golda Meir on history
Author: Golda Meir“The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.” -Golda Meir