On This Site in 1897
A place where something almost happened
Sign at 'A Touch of Dutch' store in Coupeville, Washington
QuotaBillsWe cannot escape history. - Abraham Lincoln
History is more or less bunk. - Henry Ford
There is no reason to repeat bad history. - Eleanor Holmes Norton
What Washington needs is adult supervision. - Barack Obama
For most of history, Anonymous was a woman. - Virginia Woolf
If you want a friend in Washington, get a dog. - Harry S Truman
That great dust-heap called 'history'. - Augustine Birrell
Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts. - Edward R. Murrow
Live out of your imagination, not your history. - Stephen Covey
The main thing is to make history, not to write it. - Otto von Bismarck
We are not makers of history. We are made by history. - Martin Luther King, Jr.
History books that contain no lies are extremely dull. - Anatole France
We learn from history that we do not learn from history. - Georg W F Hegel
U.S. history - that's part of your whole American heresy. - Archie Bunker
History is the sum total of things that could have been avoided. - Konrad Adenauer
Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy. - Margaret Thatcher
The only thing new in the world is the history you don't know. - Harry S Truman
If some countries have too much history, we have too much geography. - William Lyon Mackenzie King
History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul. - Lord Acton
It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition. - Henry James
The Spanish assailed the unassailable, the Dutch defended the indefensible. - Unknown
There's a good reason why nobody studies history. It just teaches you too much. - Noam Chomsky
Keyboard Plaque: The disgusting buildup of dirt and crud found on computer keyboards - Daffynitions joe-ks.com
Step out of the history that is holding you back. Step into the new story you are willing to create. - Oprah Winfrey
There's an old saying about those who forget history. I don't remember it, but it's good. - Stephen Colbert
It is guaranteed to put all teeth on edge, including George Washington's, wherever they might be. - Vincent Canby
If the lessons of history teach us anything it is that nobody learns the lessons that history teaches us. - Unknown
Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present. - Bil Keane
A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history. - Mahatma Gandhi
Over the years, I learned so much from mom. She taught me about the importance of home and history and family and tradition. - Martha Stewart
A doctor who cannot take a good history and a patient who cannot give one are in danger of giving and receiving bad treatment. - Unknown
The Arc de Triomphe, the Eiffel Tower. They're monumental. They're straight out of Page 52 in your school history book. - Billy Crystal
We're at a point in history where everyone needs to pay attention to politics. Too much is at stake for us to be apathetic. - Kevin Costner
I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power. - Robert Frost
A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history - with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila. - Mitch Ratcliffe
Hillary Clinton was the worst Secretary of State in the history of the country. The world came apart under her reign as Secretary of State. - Donald Trump
He's ... probably the greatest corporate leader in the history of a major company... Somebody like that would be absolutely incredible. - Donald Trump
Our history is an inevitable component of our being. One thing only can release us from the grip of our history. That one thing is forgiveness. - Lewis B Smedes
There is only one history of any importance, and it is the history of what you once believed in, and the history of what you came to believe in. - Kay Boyle
A man finds room in the few square inches of the face for the traits of all his ancestors; for the expression of all his history, and his wants. - Ralph Waldo Emerson