Top 205 Historic Quotes

The historic dearth of labor was perhaps the central feature of the American economy in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
H. W. Brands
Mormonism is not historic Christianity. When people say, ‘Well, Mormons and Christians all believe the same things,’ my response is, ‘If that’s true, why are they always on my front doorstep trying to convert me?’
Robert Jeffress
My first pole position is an emotional and hopefully historic moment as I want to be in F1 for many, many years.
Nico Hulkenberg
San Siro is a historic stadium. It’s nice, but it doesn’t offer comfort.
Paolo Maldini
The Palestinians are facing a historic junction at which they will have to decide whether they want to remain stuck in a corner of extreme fundamentalism, which will cut them off from the entire world, or whether they are ready to take the necessary steps. My role is to assist in building this process.
Ehud Olmert
You don’t let a historic site rot.
Robert Ballard
Kissinger celebrants inevitably point to two things to justify their admiration: an opening to China – ‘rapprochement’ – and improved relations with the Soviet Union – detente – which included SALT, a historic arms-limitation treaty.
Greg Grandin
Kung fu films have to move with the rest of the world. You couldn’t keep on doing sword fights in historic films. People wanted superheroes. They wanted something fast and new.
Sammo Hung
The Citizenship Amendment Act is a historic law. It has fulfilled wishes of the Father of the Nation Mahatma Gandhi.
Ram Nath Kovind
I’ve successfully convinced others to let me redevelop the historic Old Post Office Pavilion on Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C. I also led the acquisition of the iconic 800-acre Doral Resort & Spa from my hospital bed after giving birth to my daughter, Arabella.
Ivanka Trump
Usually, one day in a century rises above the others as an accepted turning point or historic milestone. It becomes the climactic day, or ‘the day,’ of that century.
Douglas Brinkley
If you talk about stadiums that everyone knows, the most historic are San Siro and Old Trafford.
Bruno Fernandes
Rex is 60 years old with 13 million images and 10 million in archive. It’s the first time we’ve had a historic archive to work with, which is super interesting.
Jon Oringer
For historic reasons – principally the political Right’s opposition to gay rights – most gay spokespeople continue to think that the political Right is the sole locale from which anti-gay sentiment can come.
Douglas Murray
I incline to an aristocratic republic. This would satisfy the ambitious spirit among our people. We shall learn from the historic mistakes of others in the same way as we learn from our own; for we are a modern nation and wish to be the most modern in the world.
Theodor Herzl
Everywhere in the world, when you travel, you see structures that stand out. Historic structures and new structures. But in India, I don’t see anything that stands out.
Ajay Piramal
Man lives consciously for himself, but is an unconscious instrument in the attainment of the historic, universal, aims of humanity.
Leo Tolstoy
I won’t predict anything historic. But nothing is impossible.
Michael Phelps
I think every religious person should have a deep sense of respect for other people’s religious documents and religious symbols just as we were deeply opposed to the Taliban destroying the two historic buddhas which they blew up. So I think we ought to all oppose burning the Koran.
Newt Gingrich
The righting of historic wrongs has chimed with something fundamental in me since I was a young reader. I love the forensic skills, the psychological insights, and the sheer bloody-mindedness of various detectives – professional or accidental – inching toward the truth of a long-buried secret.
Fiona Barton
I told them how excited I would be to go into space and how thrilled I was when Alan Shepard made his historic flight, and when John Kennedy announced on the news that the men had landed safely on the moon, and how jealous I was of those men.
Christa McAuliffe
If Republicans triumph in 2014, it will undoubtedly be as a result of Obamacare. In 2010, Republicans soared to historic victory because the much-maligned Tea Party spearheaded mass resistance to Obama’s takeover of the healthcare industry.
Ben Shapiro
There are hundreds of historic and current examples of women and minorities doing groundbreaking work in technology, but so many of these stories are not well known, and in some cases, the stories have been all but lost.
Megan Smith
I believe that the FCC and Tribal Nations share the same goal-ensuring high-speed Internet access to anyone who wants it, while respecting and preserving sites with historic, religious, and cultural significance to Tribes.
Ajit Pai
The Eurasian union is a project meant to preserve the identities of nations and the historic Eurasian community in the new century, in a new world.
Vladimir Putin
There’s not a ballpark I’ve ever played in as a visitor or home that has the historic feel and energy that Fenway Park has.
Jake Peavy
This is the most historic moment in Supreme Court history in our lifetime, no question about it. These are justices who are going to serve for decades.
Jay Alan Sekulow
The assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr., and Robert F. Kennedy led directly to the passage of a historic law, the Gun Control Act of 1968.
Jeffrey Toobin
Ambati Rambabu walked with my father for 1,500 kilometres during his historic ‘padayatra’ before 2004 elections. It is because of the work done by activists like him that Congress won assembly elections twice.
Y. S. Jaganmohan Reddy
I was very proud to support Obama's presidential campai

I was very proud to support Obama’s presidential campaign, from the primaries all the way to his historic victory.
Daniel Lubetzky
Our freedoms were born in the ideals of the Enlightenment and the musket fires of an historic revolution.
John Boehner
The world has a truly historic pope in Francis.
Betsy Hodges
It would be great to fight on UFC 200 obviously. It’s going to be an historic event but the card is getting full quickly.
Jimi Manuwa
The greatest economic power might in fact remain in the hands of the Federal Reserve. Economists credit the Fed’s policy of keeping interest rates at historic lows with helping to pump up the economy and bring unemployment down.
Andrew Ross Sorkin
I have worked on behalf of storm survivors for 10 years, and compared to historic hurricanes on the mainland, Hurricane Maria is the worst recovery I’ve ever witnessed.
Michael Caputo
As a result of the historic catastrophe in which Titus of Rome destroyed Jerusalem and Israel was exiled from its land, I was born in one of the cities of the Exile.
Shmuel Yosef Agnon
I’m doing my part, building plants at a record rate, having historic conservation levels. The only people not doing their part is the federal government that is siding with the energy companies against the interests of the people of California.
Gray Davis
The consequence of Mr. Bush’s and Blair’s historic lie that the reason for invading Iraq was weapons of mass destruction, is that everything is being doubted.
Walid Jumblatt
The events of my twenties felt historic, but the people involved did not. I wanted a hero – someone who could make sense of what was happening around me and in some way redeem it.
Ben Rhodes
No one will ever be able to say what the comandantes would have done with their historic opportunity in Nicaragua if they had not been confronted with civil war.
Stephen Kinzer
I do believe in the idea of a historic person named Jesus that was a kind of chill dude who was just telling people to chill and be nice to each other. And he got penalized for that.
Tobias Forge
We are not the Westboro Baptist Church. We are a church that embraces the tenants of historic Christianity – there’s nothing hateful about our members at all.
Robert Jeffress
I’d love to do some period pieces and some historic work; I just feel like no one’s tapped into Latin history and Latin contributions to the making of America, and we’ve been there over 500 years.
John Leguizamo
For many, the gastronomic heart of Italy is the Emilia-Romagna region. Its capital is Bologna, which is often overlooked by tourists but has a beautiful historic centre and a lively yet chilled-out atmosphere.
Gino D’Acampo
Challenges of historic import threaten America’s future. Action on the deficit, economy, energy, health care and much more is imperative, yet our legislative institutions fail to act. Congress must be reformed.
Evan Bayh
To conclude that women are unfitted to the task of our historic society seems to me the equivalent of closing male eyes to female facts.
Lyndon B. Johnson
Art fairs bring attention to up and coming artists and some amazing new works. They are a way to connect everyone with what’s happening at the cutting edge of art, both new and historic.
Paul Allen
The Jewish people remember the dramatic vote in the U.N. Assembly on November 29, 1947, when representatives of the nations recognized our right to national revival in our historic homeland.
Ariel Sharon
Cities have unique home-sharing policy needs – a dense, urban city may have different concerns than a historic vacation town or a non-traditional travel destination.
Belinda Johnson
What I did was sit down with the Washington State officials, with the historic preservation people, with the tribe, the local community, the port of Port Angeles, and we worked this thing out, and we protected the tribe’s interest.
Norm Dicks
The end of my playing career was May 28, 2017. That, for me, was an historic day. I’ll carry it with me forever. It will be hard to explain to people the feelings and emotions I felt that day.
Francesco Totti
If you want a great replacement, like, who can follow Barack and still have that swag, that charisma, that charm and be historic – I think it would be Tina Fey for president.
Hasan Minhaj
Arsenal are a historic club. Arsene Wenger has been here for such a long time, and there is a real level of stability at the club. He knows what he wants to achieve in the coming years. I liked the way he spoke about football and what he thinks of me.
Alexandre Lacazette