Franz Kafka, On the day when man told the story of his life to man, history was born. James Baldwin, History is who we are and why we are the way we are. It expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.”, “History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme.”, “People have an annoying habit of remembering things they shouldn't.”, “Every moment happens twice: inside and outside, and they are two different histories.”, “I was alive when the Dead Sea was just a lake that was feeling a little poorly.”, “The first duty of a man is to think for himself”, “We'll be remembered more for what we destroy than what we create.”, “History, like love, is so apt to surround her heroes with an atmosphere of imaginary brightness.”, “The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.”, “The world is changed because you are made of ivory and gold. It changes the artist’s thinking and is constantly reshaping it into different and unexpected images. Best african american inspirational quotes selected by thousands of our users! Hitler read history, too. But all the great change in history, positive change, was done by optimists. Winston Churchill, History will be kind to me for I intend to write it. I am stronger because you are stronger. Life's too short to be pissed off all the time.
America is a product of philosophy. It used to be strong, it becomes weak.
Now here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead.
Fidel Castro, History shows that there are no invincible armies. The problem is whether the American people have loyalty enough, honor enough, patriotism enough, to live up to their own constitution.” — Frederick Douglass, RELATED: 10 Quotes From Martin Luther King Jr. “Letting go means to come to the realization that some people are a part of your history, but not a part of your destiny.”, “The best moments in reading are when you come across something – a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things – which you had thought special and particular to you. David Miliband, Fear not for the future, weep not for the past. Richard M. Nixon, Europe will never be like America. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.” — Harriet Tubman, ”We should emphasize not Negro History, but the Negro in history. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Will Durant, That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach. Alexis de Tocqueville, No harm’s done to history by making it something someone would want to read. But it doesn’t make you nice.
I know no way of judging of the future but by the past. Patterns within patterns. American History X Quotes. Napoleon Bonaparte, Soldiers, if there is one among you who wants to kill his general, his Emperor, here I am. You are a leaf that doesn't know it is part of a tree.
Susan Sontag, History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.
Ruud Gullit, One faces the future with one’s past. — Barack Obama, “If you judge people, you have no time to love them.” — Mother Theresa, "Love is not a color.