Historic Quotes

A time of historic change is no time for recklessness.

This is a historic moment in global public health, demonstrating the international will to tackle a threat to health head on.

Real freedom comes from the mastery, through knowledge, of historic conditions and race character, which makes possible a free and intelligent use of experience for the purpose of progress.

But the good deed, through the ages Living in historic pages, Brighter grows and gleams immortal, Unconsumed by moth or rust.

I always emphasize the historic role of people of color in organizing and protesting to achieve justice.

The U.S. should support the historic Gaza withdrawal as a first step toward a final settlement: a permanent Palestinian state in Gaza and nearly all of the West Bank.

I am the same person as always and I have the good fortune to play in a great team. It was an historic year for Barca and for me but it's thanks to the work of everyone.

For me, in fact, the mark of the historic is the nonchalance with which it picks up an individual and deposits him in a trend, like a house playfully moved by a tornado.

By focusing once and for all on helping the Palestinians build a free society, I have no doubt that an historic compromise between Israelis and Palestinians can be reached and that peace can prevail.

It PASSED! Marriage equality in NY!! Yes!! Progress!! Thank you everyone who worked so hard on this!! A historic night!

I'm living out a childhood fantasy. Our house is in a historic district of a small town that I used to read about in storybooks

Many great horror stories are period pieces and English actors have a facility for historic characters.

I feel like Jonah Hill would be a good selfie, or Jennifer Lawrence. They'd be really good ones...Historic.

Tom Hanks, who starred in 'The Da Vinci Code,' turns out to be related to a number of the historic characters that feature in 'The Da Vinci Code,' including William the Conqueror and Shakespeare.

[The PlayStation 2 is a] historic, a mass-market appliance that fundamentally changes society in the way the printing press did.

The guys who walk on Mars are going to be historic.

I've never been very attached to genre labels and never set out intentionally to write historic fiction. Besides, what you consider historic depends on how far back your memory extends.

People have to be reminded that unions played a very historic role in our economy.

Homage to Michael Snow's environmental sculpture 'Blind.' The film proposes analogies, in imitation of 3 historic montage styles, for three perceptual modes mimed by that work.

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.

Judaism stands or falls with its belief in the historic actuality of the revelation at Sinai.

The world is facing a historic turning point because the system of materialistic liberalism has come to a deadlock.

They must attack us in order to survive, just as we must destroy them to advance our historic mission.

Every good historian is almost by definition a revisionist. He looks at the accepted view of a particular historic episode or period with a very critical eye.

The first farmer was the first man, and all historic nobility rests on possession and use of land.

It is, all in all, a historic error to believe that the master makes the school; the students make it!

The drug lord is on the run. His name is El Chapo. Donald Trump is in a Twitter feud with this Mexican drug lord. It's historic - the first time Americans have ever sided with a Mexican drug lord.

In science the new is an advance; but in morals, as contradicting our inner ideals and historic idols, it is ever a retrogression.

For us to be the team that got him that historic 10th championship is special for us.

The most beautiful landscapes in the world, if they evoke no memory, if they bear no trace of a remarkable event, are uninteresting compared to historic landscapes.

Goering's ideas betray a consistent desire to create something essentially new, implying all the historic virtues, but unlike [anything] of the past.

For the people of Israel and America are historic partners in the global quest for human dignity and freedom. We will always remain at each other's side.

Historic justice has been done by killing Saddam.

The historic function of a Senator from Oregon is to drive all the other Senators mad.

We owe an historic debt to American Indians. They have a unique set of concerns that haven’t been addressed and I’d like to stand with them. Also, I’d like to get their views on immigration.

We have a historic opportunity to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons in Iran, and to do so peacefully, with the international community firmly behind us. We should seize that chance.

It is no mere coincidence that there is both an historic and a present relationship between community (people assisting each other) and a poverty of power due to financial recession.

We must now view our problems as opportunities - historic opportunities to change the failed systems of the past and do what's right for our future.

Sending a couple of guys to the Moon and bringing them back safely? That's a stunt! That's not historic.

Hillary Clinton wants to run on the historic nature of her candidacy. I will force her to run on accountability for the Clinton way.

The pope has been called many things, historic figure, spiritual leader, moral force. But a growing chorus of voices has begun to refer to him as John Paul II the Great, in other words, as a saint.

For all history up to the end of the Cold War, summit meetings were historic and dramatic occasions, when leaders who controlled the destiny of much of the world met to change the world.

Tom Walls and his cohort are wolves in sheep's clothing who will besmirch the memory of some genuine historic figures by the next full moon.

It never occurred to me that I was hired because I was black. But it did occur to me that because I was black it would give a different historic element to the film.

Ending mass surveillance of private phone calls under the Patriot Act is a historic victory for the rights of every citizen. Yet while we have reformed this one program, many others remain.

Whether every story that's there [in the Bible] is a historic truth ... Again, I'm not concerned.

I don't have a big thing about leaving my mark or being historic.

Functions of technical information, historic record, analytic argument, which are integral and obvious to Dante's use of verse are now almost completely a part of the 'prosaic'.

Every championship, by definition, is historic.

The Gorbachev period is conceived as an abandonment of historic Russian positions. So this is the framework, in my view, in which Putin operates.