Words matter. These are the best History Books Quotes from famous people such as Rocky Carroll, George Michael, Malcolm X, Jackie Joyner-Kersee, Saul David, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
A free and democratic society is not the norm. When you look to the history books, world history was not based on great democratic societies but on imperialism, absolute rule, kings, queens, monarchs, dictators.
Everything was going my way. I was happily marching into the history books. Then it all just fell apart.
The white man made the mistake of letting me read his history books. He made the mistake of teaching me that Patrick Henry was a patriot and George Washington – wasn’t nothing non-violent about old Pat or George Washington.
As you grow older and young people come up to you with their history books, you realize that some of the things I have been able to do have been impactful. But for me, I try to keep everything in perspective and stay humble.
The people who read the history books tend to have a natural zeal and are alarmingly well-read.
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.
I read science books, chemistry books, history books. I read that stuff for fun.
Culture survives in smaller spaces – not in the history books that erect monuments to the nation’s grand history but in cafes and cinema houses, village squares, and half-forgotten libraries.
I read daft history books. Sometimes the books I read are a bit crackers or strange.
When you read the Bible, you are reading the Holy Spirit and not history books. When you read history books, you are reading about events, but the Bible is not an event. So, when you are reading the Holy Spirit, you are supposed to be carried along by it.
It is over with; I am in the history books.
Most history books are about power.
My heart goes out to victims and survivors of the Hurricane Katrina tragedy and to their families. This disaster will go down in history books as one of the largest natural disasters in U.S. history.
If we open our history books, we shall see that the laws, for all that they are or should be contracts amongst free men, have rarely been anything but the tools of the passions of a few men or the offspring of a fleeting and haphazard necessity.
I want to be a champion. I want to be a long-reigning featherweight champion. I want to be known in the history books: my name everywhere as a champion. And then, later on in my career, when I start getting good, then I can start doing the exhibition matches for money and stuff.
Television and film are our libraries now. Our history books.
Winning and making history is something you can’t buy. Me? I’m a guy who loves history. When I’m 60 or 70, I don’t want to be remembered for the money I make. I want to be in the history books.
She died when I was 16 and I just think no history books, nothing is ever going to talk about my grandmother. She was kind of invisible. She couldn’t speak English so didn’t have many friends. I think of her any time I think of the word ‘sacrifice.’
I do lament how many investors focus on all the short-term sugar buzz of some marginal improvement in something – nothing history books are ever going to be written about. In many cases, these are quick and easy ways to make money.
In history books, or the one about the guy who cut his hand off to get out of a canyon in Utah, you really want them to be accurate. But my stuff is such small beer by comparison.
The White House used to belong to the American people. At least that’s what I learned from history books and from covering every president starting with John F. Kennedy.
The problem is that my generation was pacified into believing that racism existed only in our history books.
I read more history books than anything else.
I thought I knew who Alan Turing was. I’ve always loved history, and I was actually shocked by how little I actually knew. I was amazed this wasn’t common knowledge. Why wasn’t he on the front covers of my history books? He’s one of the great thinkers of the last century, and he was sort of pushed into the shadows.
I have to tell you, when I hear the song ‘Jiya ho Bihar ke Lala,’ I want to throw the history books out of the window and dance!
I want to go down in the history books with what I’ve achieved.
Art needs to be socialised, and you need a lot of context to understand that, and that doesn’t mean having read a few art history books.
I want to etch my name into the history books myself, both at club and international level.
As an author of narrative history, I read a lot of history books.
I love to read history books, which is where I get my ideas. I also read historical romance for pleasure.
I had these fashion history books that I really enjoyed looking at. I liked costumes and used to wear them to school until I got beat up for it.
The big stadiums, sold-out crowds and games with massive things riding on them; as players these are games you want to be playing in. It’s a chance to write your name in the history books.
I am delighted to be joining Paris Saint-Germain, a club where so many Brazilians have played and helped write the club’s history. I will do everything I can to continue that tradition and write my own name into the club’s history books.
Many people have told me that once they learn of Madam Walker’s accomplishments they are surprised, even embarrassed, that they have never heard of her. But they shouldn’t be. Her extraordinary story was simply omitted from the history books.
My legacy is to put my name in the history books in boxing.
To me, it was a sad fate to have been born into a period and a world where everything was in tip-top order, and the only real excitement was to be found in history books and occasionally also in the paper.
Life is a wonderful thing to talk about, or to read about in history books – but it is terrible when one has to live it.
We must work together, across nations and sectors. Only then will we consign the hideous crime of slavery to the history books.
In history books, luck is always underplayed and the talent of individuals is usually overplayed.
I have three libraries. As a gift, a friend alphabetized and organized my main library of novels, history books, and nonfiction. Then I have a photo-book collection. Then there’s this nearly whole room of my childhood books. I’ve also got cookbooks and a big collection of horse-related books.
I started looking into horse history books and came across the actual story of this half-breed endurance horseman and his painted mustang Hidalgo. I wasn’t really sure if I was going to do the movie at that point.
I much prefer writing fiction. History books, for me, are very hard work, very serious.
I truly believe that when the history books are written, our age will be remembered for three things: the war on terror, the digital revolution, and what we did – or did not do – to put the fire out in Africa. History, like God, is watching what we do.
Whites were the winners, blacks were the losers, we wrote the history books, and they didn’t feature.
When I was growing up reading history books as a young student, it seemed all wars had a winner. Yet in today’s wars, it is increasingly clear that no one wins. Everyone loses.
Sir Alex Ferguson already has his place in the history books; he is definitely one of the best coaches ever.
Nobody gives a damn about the Merrimac. You know how it is. Winners write the history books.
I read all the time… I read a lot of history books.
The slave narratives, there is a wealth of research there, because you are hearing stories from the first person account, and that’s a whole different thing than reading about it in the history books. You’re able to really personalize it.
It’s in the history books, the Holocaust. It’s just a phrase. And the truth is it happened yesterday. It happened to my mother. I never met my grandmothers or my grandfathers. They were all wiped up in the gas chambers of Nazi Germany.
My process for determining which eras I’d write about was to just read history books that gave a really broad overview of Chinese history. And when I came across a historical figure or a historical incident that was especially interesting to me, ideas for characters and stories would surface.
The history books will remember the Chinese doctors who sounded the alarm about COVID-19.
All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing.
At the end of the day I’m still a four-time world champion at four different weight classes and I’ll still be in the history books.
I’d always thought leadership was a CEO or president or person in a position of power. And honestly, to me, that meant a man – because that’s what I was reading about in history books growing up.
