#history

You can't be a full participant in our democracy if you don't know our history. ↗

— David McCullough

#full #history #know #our #participant

I can fairly be called an amateur because I do what I do, in the original sense of the word - for love, because I love it. On the other hand, I think that those of us who make our living writing history can also be called true professionals. ↗

— David McCullough

#amateur #because #called #fairly #hand

Kip Keino, Moses Tanui, Paul Tergat, they all come from my tribe. Some say it is the food we eat that makes us strong, the way we live. In the history of our people we wear no clothes and we are used to drinking the blood of animals. ↗

— Martin Lel

#clothes #come #drinking #eat #food

The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness. ↗

— Vladimir Lenin

#class #consciousness #countries #develop #effort

Sometimes - history needs a push. ↗

— Vladimir Lenin

#needs #push #sometimes

It is impossible to predict the time and progress of revolution. It is governed by its own more or less mysterious laws. ↗

— Vladimir Lenin

#governed #impossible #laws #less #more

Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time. ↗

— C. S. Lewis

#before #began #done #got #had

I'm not keen on history being tampered with... to any extent. ↗

— Daniel Day-Lewis

#being #extent #history #i #keen

This above all makes history useful and desirable; it unfolds before our eyes a glorious record of exemplary actions. ↗

— Titus Livius

#actions #before #desirable #exemplary #eyes

China's history is marked by thousands of years of world-changing innovations: from the compass and gunpowder to acupuncture and the printing press. No one should be surprised that China has re-emerged as an economic superpower. ↗

— Gary Locke

#china #compass #economic #gunpowder #history