Waterfront Icons

History is more or less bunk. - Henry Ford

History develops, art stands still. - E.M. Forster

Revolutions are the locomotives of history. - Karl Marx

For most of history, Anonymous was a woman. - Virginia Woolf

That great dust-heap called 'history'. - Augustine Birrell

Leftovers: 1. Mull-again stew; 2. Repast history. - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

It's a very good historical book about history. - Dan Quayle

History will be kind to me for I intend to write it. - Winston Churchill

History is a vision of God's creation on the move. - Arnold J. Toynbee

History repeats itself; historians repeat one another. - Rupert Brooke

Anybody can make history, only a great man can write it. - Oscar Wilde

A sweating ovary or a sick prostate explains most history. - Martin H. Fischer

History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living. - Lawrence Durrell

I'm just the smallest dot in a big map of human history. - Ben Casnocha

U.S. history - that's part of your whole American heresy. - Archie Bunker

It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature. - Henry James

I think we may class the lawyer in the natural history of monsters. - John Keats

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past. - Thomas Jefferson

History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul. - Lord Acton

The very ink with which all history is written is merely fluid prejudice. - Mark Twain

I love hockey because of the respect for history and for the game itself. - George Vecsey

If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten. - Rudyard Kipling

History has been written not by the most talented but by the most motivated. - Peter Drucker

Do you realize if it weren't for Edison we'd be watching TV by candlelight? - Al Boliska

We live in a world where amnesia is the most wished-for state. When did history become a bad word? - John Guare

History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind. - Edward Gibbon

A library should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas - a place where history comes to life. - Norman Cousins

If the lessons of history teach us anything it is that nobody learns the lessons that history teaches us. - Unknown

Madam, you're making history, in fact, you're making me, and I wish you'd keep my hands to yourself. - Groucho Marx

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

The Arc de Triomphe, the Eiffel Tower. They're monumental. They're straight out of Page 52 in your school history book. - Billy Crystal

The Internet is the most important single development in the history of human communication since the invention of call waiting. - Dave Barry

If Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at the age of twenty-two, it would have changed the history of music... and of aviation. - Tom Stoppard

God created us for love, for union, for forgiveness and compassion and, yet, that has not been our storyline. That has not been our history. - Richard Rohr

If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm any hostility. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I know of no other man in our time, or indeed in recent history, who so convincingly demonstrated the power of the spirit over material things. - Stafford Cripps

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

History will see advertising as one of the real evil things of our time. It is stimulating people constantly to want things, want this, want that. - Malcolm Muggeridge

The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different. - Aldous Huxley