History is like gravity.
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Quotes tagged ‘History’
Dalilah: I don't know, you remind me of my college history teacher. Larry: Was he an avuncular, bald Jew?
I ask Alfonso where Gellhorn might have worked, and she says possibly in the library, next door to Hemingway’s workspace, which once was two connected bedrooms. But no one knows for sure.
John Hawkins: Fruit from the New World! It's called a tomato! Queen Elizabeth: This is a fruit? John Hawkins: Some say vegetable. Standing argument.
— Erika Lippoldt, Bo Yeon Kim, Queen Elizabeth I, Rachel Skarsten, imdb.com
History is written by survivors, and I am surely that.
— Drew Lindo, Queen Catherine de' Medici, Megan Follows, imdb.com
History teaches us that the cause of humanity is only advanced through strife. There’s no Renaissance without the Dark Ages.
— Andrew Kreisberg, Greg Berlanti, Marc Guggenheim, Phil Klemmer, Vandal Savage, Casper Crump, imdb.com
History is war and slavery and holding your dead son in your arms. There’s no point in protecting history, so we might as well just burn it all down.
If anyone thinks those crimes could have been prevented if the victims themselves had been carrying guns, I'd only remind you that the president of the United States was shot last night while surrounded by the best-trained armed guards in the history of the world.
I've always liked the notion of meeting the great figures of history. But then I think: what if it's like high school and all the really cool dead people don't want to hang out with me? Mozart'll tell me he's busy but then later I'll see him out with Shakespeare and Lincoln!
The benefit of being a Time Master is that the length and breadth of history gives one perspective. I’ve seen darker days. I’ve seen men of steel die and dark knights fall, and even then I accomplished my mission no matter what.
— Chris Fedak, Marc Guggenheim, Rip Hunter, Arthur Darvill, imdb.com
I need you to do what I couldn’t. I need you to go back there to prevent the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
You save Kennedy’s life, you make the world a better place.
The history of organized religion isn’t exactly strife-free.
— Hawk Ostby, Mark Fergus, Col. Frederick Lucius Johnson, Chad L. Coleman, imdb.com
You want help? Fine. Let me tell you a story. 'Once upon a time, a man got fucked.' Now, how is that for a story? 'Cause that's the story of black people in America! Shit, you all don't know you black yet. You think you just people. Let me be the first to tell you that you are all black. The moment…
Nobody will believe it's possible until we show them. But when that day comes, you know what they'll say? They'll say that it was inevitable.
All this will be for nothing. We will have been for nothing. Defined by their histories, distorted to fit into their narrative, until all that is left of us are the monsters in the stories they tell their children.
— Robert Levine, Jonathan E. Steinberg, Captain Flint, Toby Stephens, imdb.com
A story is true. A story is untrue. As time extends, it matters less and less. The stories we want to believe, those are the ones that survive, despite upheaval and transition and progress. Those are the stories that shape history.
— Robert Levine, Jonathan E. Steinberg, Jack Rackham, Toby Schmitz, imdb.com
History was not made by those who did nothing.
George: What about a legacy? Don't you want to be remembered? King Edward: I will be remembered. George: Yes, for being fat and lazy.
— Emma Frost, George Duke of Clarence, David Oakes, imdb.com
Warwick and George plan to restore Henry to the throne, and when they are defeated, Edward will be forced to execute his own brother.