Top 280 Historically Quotes

We are moving beyond the non-fiction novel to different kinds of narrative art, different forms of cognition. Loaded with moral and political point, narrative has been recalibrated to record, honour, and protest the latest historically specific instance of futility and mess.
Geoff Dyer
Legitimate institutions historically have been defenseless in the face of outright fraud.
Gary Weiss
Marriage has historically been in the domain of the States to regulate.
Corrine Brown
Why do investors seem to care about ‘billion dollar exits?’ Historically, top venture funds have driven returns from their ownership in just a few companies in a given fund of many companies.
Aileen Lee
Historically, black music has influenced other cultures and other genres and created other genres.
Miguel
I’m far from immune to the American, perhaps historically male, prejudice toward practical and physical competence; I hope I’ve also considered that prejudice enough to have some distance from it.
Robert Pinsky
I went to a historically black college.

I went to a historically black college.
John David Washington
The Victorian Age was very stimulating, historically impressive.
Prunella Scales
I had lived all of my youthful dreams, but I couldn’t think of many adult ones. I finally realized that we don’t have many dreams for adults because, historically, people have always died much younger than they do today.
Jack Gilbert
I know the Mad Hatter has a long history in the ‘Batman’ canon. He’s quite a historically rich character, and he’s come in a lot of shapes and forms and interpretations.
Benedict Samuel
Art is not boosterism, it’s not propaganda, and it’s not spin, but that’s not something that art does, and nor has it historically ever done it.
Junot Diaz
And historically the owners have used loyalty to a team or a city to hold players as opposed to always paying their worth.
Lynn Swann
We’ve seen historically how marginalized communities or historically marginalized communities particularly suffer from tech companies unchecked data collection and use.
Raphael Warnock
Betty Shabazz was the wife of a man who challenged a government that was historically unjust. She was harassed and placed under surveillance by the Nation of Islam (NOI), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).
Ilyasah Shabazz
I want to buy them, because historically these have been great engines of enrichment for the middle class, ‘historically’ meaning now for a good ten years.
Jim Cramer
At 80 million, millennials, born between 1980 and 2000, are the largest generation in history. Yet they are a demographic Congress has historically either taken for granted or ignored altogether.
S.E. Cupp
Ours is an open and accepting society, and has historically provided an avenue for lawful immigration to all those willing to accept the responsibilities of citizenship.
Spencer Bachus
Historically, Hong Kong has served as an important bridge between China and the world. Our freedoms, stability and the rule of law have been the reasons for our success.
Joshua Wong
Most lawsuits against the EPA historically have come either because of the agency’s lack of regard for a statute or because the EPA failed in an obligation or deadline.
Scott Pruitt
Snapchat really has to do with the way photographs have changed. Historically, photos have always been used to save really important memories: major life moments. But today… pictures are being used for talking.
Evan Spiegel
Historically, the French have had a romantic attachment to their bikes. Though the first functioning two-wheeler is thought to have been invented by a German in 1817, it was the French who popularized and marketed the device in the 1860s, giving it the name ‘bicycle.’
Elaine Sciolino
Historically, almost every cookbook and chef have taught that when you’re cooking a piece of meat, the first step should be searing.
J. Kenji Lopez-Alt
Readers are hungry to have their stories in the world, to see mirrors of themselves if the stories are about people like them, and to have windows if the stories are about people who have been historically absent in literature.
Jacqueline Woodson
The texture my hair, my skin tone; it does work, you don’t have to change. But historically we’ve seen fashion try to change that: straighten your hair, thrown on a super straight silky wig, lighten your skin tone.
KiKi Layne
I am hopelessly devoted to paper. Nothing against e-readers of any sort – anything that keeps people reading is okay by me – but I am not, historically, an early adopter of such things.
Jonathan Dee
The amount of writing that people do online is astonishing, and historically unprecedented.
Clive Thompson
It’s really important we stay in touch with our customers and try to, over time, have more packages and flexibility than perhaps we have historically offered. And that’s part of that tension that is healthy that is going on in the marketplace.
Brian L. Roberts
Horror films are the ones that pay the bills, and historically, they have shown that they are good investments. They helped Universal survive with that initial splash of horror films in the 1930s and ’40s. And horror films kept New Line alive with the ‘A Nightmare on Elm Street’ series.
Christopher Young
Historically, there had been many periods of Chinese Renaissance.
Hu Shih
Money is hardly neutral. Its connection to power makes it a highly charged social phenomenon and a mediator of relationships. Because it has historically been controlled by men, it has given men a tool for controlling women.
Ann Cotton
The Turks have not been historically good about keeping pressure on ISIS.
Dan Crenshaw
Historically, Vince McMahon’s company has always been where the Hulk Hogans get the push and the Paul Orndorffs and Jake Roberts does the pushing.
Shane Douglas
There aren’t very many notable Native American female figures historically. That’s the way that it’s been. Pocahontas and Sacajawea.
Julia Jones
The American public historically was really not part of the stock market.
Ron Chernow
Historically venture capital funds have only allowed elite investors in.
Brock Pierce
Watch the History Channel if you want it literal and historically perfect.
Emily Blunt
Priesthood is not a convenient, historically conditioned form of Church organisation, but is rooted in the Incarnation, in the priesthood and mission of Christ himself.
Arthur Middleton
I feel that, historically, the Art Deco period has the

I feel that, historically, the Art Deco period has the most resonance for me. As a person, it has to be the plucky Clara Bow, the heroine of American silent movies of the 1920s. She embodied feminine dressing mixed with men’s style. All this then evolved into the exquisite style and simplicity of Coco Chanel.
Anouska Hempel
I work in colour sometimes, but I guess the images I most connect to, historically speaking, are in black and white. I see more in black and white – I like the abstraction of it.
Mary Ellen Mark
Historically, the judicial branch has often been the sole protector of the rights of minority groups against the will of the popular majority.
Diane Watson
We’re very historically tried and true when it comes to our albums. We pick the best songs; we get rid of the songs we feel don’t fit on the album, and we don’t work on remixing or remastering albums.
Zacky Vengeance
Narcissism and the Confederate dead cannot be connected logically, or even historically; even were the connection an historical fact, they would not stand connected as art, for no one experiences raw history.
Allen Tate
Historically, in my generation, all of my heroes and heroines have had issues and problems. We all do.
Anita Baker
Generally speaking, historically in this country, the care of a child has been thought of as female business.
Eddie Bernice Johnson
Historically, religion has often proved a more lethal and more divisive force than any secular ideology. It has also often been a more divisive force than race.
Linda Colley
I’m a good uncle, but I’m not a great caretaker. I feel oftentimes pretty selfish within the relationships I have with my siblings and, historically, with what I give back versus what I’ve taken over the years.
Nick Kroll
There have been times when I’ve feared for my own well-being in the great scheme of things because, historically, the track record has not been kind to the guitar players in this band.
Lindsey Buckingham
When I’m feeling frustrated with a story, I have faith that it’s going to come. Also, when I first started writing, I wanted to write the stories that were not in my childhood, to represent people who hadn’t historically been represented in literature.
Jacqueline Woodson
I can only perceive the royal family as an entity historically. I think I know more about the royal family from the Plantagenets in the 14th Century than the modern family.
Naveen Andrews
Historically, Barcelona win La Liga when they win the Champions League.
Ernesto Valverde
Boxing has definitely allowed me to focus on something other than just creating content which I think we’ve seen historically can be so toxic.
Logan Paul
Historically speaking, my actions speak louder than any words.
Kenya Moore
I think that feminists have definitely underestimated the role that women have had historically. I think I would be insecure if I were to be a man; there’s so much pressure on you.
Vivienne Westwood
My party has historically nominated someone who’s a mainstream conservative.
Mitt Romney
Amazon has historically been a bully, and I don’t shop there. But I love Goodreads. For the record.
Edan Lepucki
Caregiving is almost always provided by women, and especially Black and brown women. This work has historically been made invisible, which creates opportunities for the exploitation and poverty wages many of our caregivers face without protection or recourse.
Jamaal Bowman
Creating more characters that represent historically marginalized and historically disenfranchised people in television and film is certainly important.
Asia Kate Dillon
Historically and culturally, New York City and our entire nation simply would not be the same without the infusion of Asian traditions. Whether it is food, art, language or any other facet of cultural life, Asian Americans have made our city and our country stronger and richer.
Nydia Velazquez