History Books Quotes

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Thanks to history books, I have realised that people over the years have been dying of war, and that enabled me to realise that there is nothing stupid like war.

As long as there are history books, Neil Armstrong will be included in them, remembered for taking humankind's first small step on a world beyond our own.

I love fiction because in fiction you go into the thoughts of people, the little people, the people who were defeated, the poor, the women, the children that are never in history books.

There are more valid facts and details in works of art than there are in history books.

Don't be shocked when your history book mentions me.

You read about me in history books, but now I am dedicated to spreading the truth about preserving the dignity of all human life from natural conception to natural death.

Everything was going my way. I was happily marching into the history books. Then it all just fell apart.

As you go down the rabbit hole of reading into our history, you realize that there are so many things that history books didn't teach us about ourselves.

I just wanted to be the first one to fly for America, not because I'd end up in the pages of history books.

Every word I say, you can document it and put it in the history books.

People come from all over the world to see this little place they've seen in movies and read about in history books: Soho.

We glorify those who left their names in history books at the expense of those contributors about whom our books are silent. We humans are not just a superficial race - we are a very unfair one.

You couldn't always trust the history books. They told a diluted truth, a truth by committee.

History books that contain no lies are extremely dull.

It's funny, when you look back in history books or American cookery books, one of the reasons that the quinces and cranberries are used so often is because of their natural jelling properties.

It might be a good idea if the various countries of the world would occasionally swap history books, just to see what other people are doing with the same set of facts.

I think of an intellectual as just being bookish, being interested in history books, utopian ideas, that kind of thing.

Happy the People whose Annals are blank in History Books!

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.

Boys forget what their country means by just reading "the land of the free" in history books. Then they get to be men, they forgeteven more. Liberty's too precious a thing to be buried in books.

I knew always that Holland gave away the most Jews of all the countries. We are not the heroes that are in the history books.

It was, according to the history books, the fastest coronation since Bubric the Saxon crowned himself with a very pointy crown on a hill during a thunderstorm, and reigned for one and a half seconds.

But nothing is solid and permanent. Our lives are raised on the shakiest foundations. You don't need to read history books to know that. You only have to know the history of your own life.

I read all the time... I read a lot of history books.

Since the dawn of time every one will die, Let the history books note my death with loyalty at heart.

I really couldn't say how famous I really am, that's for the history books to decide. But I'll probably be pretty up there.

When I was in school, all our history books were American, so we learned American history, not Canadian history.

Whites were the winners, blacks were the losers, we wrote the history books, and they didn't feature.

And the history books forgot about us, and the bible didn’t mention us

This is where you and I are headed.... Look for us in history books and you'll find us in the margins. Look for us in legends and you might just find us celebrated

A promise, a bond, a joy, a love for the ages, for the history books.…But what was love but pain?

I suppose, as a politician, I should be content, for the Canada Pension Plan certainly put my name in Canada's history books, and in italics.

The unexpressed aim of every politician is to influence events that history books will record his name - and spell it right.

Remember, it's the winners write the history books, and the losers get the leavings.

I find that the history books that we teach our kids with are not fully truthful, in my opinion.

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.

When it comes time to default, they’re not going to remember any of the Republicans’ names. They are going to remember in history books one name, and that's Obama.

Television and film are our libraries now. Our history books.

i keep drinking the ink from my pen and i'm balancing history books up on my head but it all boils down to one quotable phrase if you love something give it away

If you read all your history books, there are no women in them.

I just read history books. I read nothing but history books. They have so much to give; I wish I'd majored in history in college.

History is written by winners, so most history books are about people who win.

The contents of someone's bookcase are part of his history, like an ancestral port

Human nature in time is engraved in history.