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" To understand a science, it is necessary to know its history. "

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" Live out of your imagination, not your history. "

" History is information. Memory is part of your identity. "

" The House of Representatives has never sued a sitting president in all of U.S. history. "

" It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself. "

" There are some real memorable highlights in my history that, in my mind, are such milestones. Winning a national championship in college and being on the Olympic platform getting a gold medal. Visiting the Hall of Fame and going into the Hall of Fame. "

" When we censor our history by disguising our scars, we belittle this process and the struggles our ancestors fought so hard to overcome. America doesn't cower behind political correctness. It defiantly and courageously moves forward, with its history as a reminder of where we have been. "

Markwayne Mullin

" It could be said that all armed conflicts are a ludicrous and shameful waste of lives, but World War I has a special place in the history of futility - a war without clear purpose, a war whose resolution would ultimately make the world a far worse place. "

" I didn't mean to spend my life writing American history, which should have been taught in the schools, but I saw no alternative but to taking it on myself. I could think of a lot of cheerier things I'd rather be doing than analyzing George Washington and Aaron Burr. But it came to pass, that was my job, so I did it. "

" History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind. "

" All history has been a history of class struggles between dominated classes at various stages of social development. "

Friedrich Engels

" As we walked through the National Museum of African American History and Culture, I pushed my grandfather in a wheelchair he had reluctantly agreed to sit in. He is a proud man who also knows that his knees aren't what they once were - that years of high school and college football had long accelerated the deterioration of his aging joints. "

" No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men. "

" Your personal history is a part of what happens with your hands and your head as you play music. "

" Emerson was such an important figure in our literary history, and in the moral and religious development of our people, that attention cannot be directed to him too often. "

" Even though the society that Marx foresaw is far from being an historical reality, Marxism has penetrated so deeply in history that we are all Marxists, one way or another, even unknowingly. "

" Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood? "

" I don't want to give myself grades. I will leave evaluation of my achievements to history. "

" History repeats itself. Historians repeat each other. "

Philip Guedalla

History Repeats Itself

" A myth is far truer than a history, for a history only gives a story of the shadows, whereas a myth gives a story of the substances that cast the shadows. "

" While we are living in the present, we must celebrate life every day, knowing that we are becoming history with every work, every action, every deed. "

Mattie Stepanek

" I think history is continuous. It doesn't begin or end on Pearl Harbor Day or the day Lyndon Johnson withdraws from the presidency or on 9/11. You have to learn from the past but not be imprisoned by it. You need to take counsel of history but never be imprisoned by it. "

Richard Holbrooke

" Outside the kingdom of the Lord there is no nation which is greater than any other. God and history will remember your judgment. "

" Throughout human history, some of our most influential inventors, entrepreneurs, and leaders have had disabilities. For example, Bill Gates, Sir Richard Branson, and Charles Schwab are all dyslexic, while scientist Stephen Hawking has used a wheelchair for decades. "

Cathy McMorris Rodgers

" We used to root for the Indians against the cavalry, because we didn't think it was fair in the history books that when the cavalry won it was a great victory, and when the Indians won it was a massacre. "

" The Ukraine has a long history of either being part of the Soviet Union or within that sphere. "

" There is nothing glorious about what our ancestors call history. It is simply a succession of mistakes, intolerances and violations. "

Claude Vorilhon

" World history is a court of judgment. "

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

" History is moving the furniture around in the house of mankind just about everywhere but the U.S.A. Things have changed, except here, where people come and go through the rooms of state, and everything looks shabbier by the day, and lethargy eats away at the upholstery like an acid fog, and the walls reverberate with meaningless oratory. "

James Howard Kunstler

" We are born, we live, we disappear. One of the chilling aspects of history is the swiftness with which it carries us into oblivion. "

David Ebershoff

" We peruse one ideal, that of bringing people together in peace, irrespective of race, religion and political convictions, for the benefit of mankind. "

Juan Antonio Samaranch