Historic Quotes

If you want to make history, you have to do historic things

Young Americans are dropping out of religion at an alarming rate of five to six times the historic rate.

I am convinced that climate change represents a historic opportunity on an even greater scale.

People in millenniums ahead will know what we were like in the 1930's and the thing that, the important major things that shaped our history at that time. This is as important for historic reasons as any other.

We`re in an historic drought, and that demands unprecedented action.

The cross symbolizes a cosmic as well as historic truth. Love conquers the world, but its victory is not an easy one.

Two conditions render difficult this historic situation of mankind: It is full of tremendously deadly armament, and it has not progressed morally as much as it has scientifically and technically.

American power worldwide is at its historic zenith.

You don't let a historic site rot.

I am not stonewalling. I am following the historic policies of the Department of Justice.

There is no historic incident better or more variously supported than the resurrection of Christ.

For a novelist, a given historic situation is an anthropologic laboratory in which he explores his basic question: What is human existence?

A time of historic change is no time for recklessness.

[The PlayStation 2 is a] historic, a mass-market appliance that fundamentally changes society in the way the printing press did.

This is a historic moment in global public health, demonstrating the international will to tackle a threat to health head on.

Tom Hanks, who starred in 'The Da Vinci Code,' turns out to be related to a number of the historic characters that feature in 'The Da Vinci Code,' including William the Conqueror and Shakespeare.

I feel like Jonah Hill would be a good selfie, or Jennifer Lawrence. They'd be really good ones...Historic.

They must attack us in order to survive, just as we must destroy them to advance our historic mission.

The guys who walk on Mars are going to be historic.

The world is facing a historic turning point because the system of materialistic liberalism has come to a deadlock.

Judaism stands or falls with its belief in the historic actuality of the revelation at Sinai.

The historic function of a Senator from Oregon is to drive all the other Senators mad.

I do think that how certain individuals gained notoriety in life and permanent historic places in death tells us a lot about the times in which they lived. The past always has valuable lessons to offer, if we're only willing to look for them.

For any economy, there are two basic factors determining how many jobs are available at any given time. The first is the overall level of activity - with GDP as a rough, if inadequate measure of overall activity - and the second is what share of GDP goes to hiring people into jobs. In terms of our current situation, after the Great Recession hit in full in 2008, US GDP has grown at an anemic average rate of 1.3 percent per year, as opposed to the historic average rate from 1950 until 2007 of 3.3 percent.

When we're dealing with historic buildings, we don't replicate, but we try to be subordinate and be deferential to them.

There's a wonderfully cooperative relationship between management and labor right now. Much like the historic partnership between oranges and a juicer.

Films are amazing. To be a part of a movie is the greatest. It's so historic and exciting.

As filmmakers, the Western is a historic, cool thing to be a part of once in your life.

Mikhail Gorbachev's historic leadership, which transformed Russia and international relations, cannot be fully understood without the diary-memoir of Anatoly Chernyaev, one of his most important advisers and closest confidants. Splendidly translated, edited, and introduced by Robert English and Elizabeth Tucker, his Six Years with Gorbachev is now available to everyone who wants to comprehend those final momentous events of the twentieth century.

Altho that is so, Ireland has always denied and Ireland still denies that the Union was binding upon her either legally or morally. And here on this historic occasion we have assembled to renew our protest and to place it upon record.

Crosses and gallows - that deadly historic juxtaposition.

Get it out of your historic head.

Fundamentally, legislation that is historic, that is comprehensive, that has a large number of senators supporting it is more durable.

Because Mr. Mandelas early opponents invested so many resources into distorting the true nature of his advocacy, the singular historic moment millions now celebrate could have been tragically lost to guerrilla decontextualization.

Historic in a good sense, not historic in a sense of 'so we dropped bombs on everyone.

Every championship, by definition, is historic.

The Gorbachev period is conceived as an abandonment of historic Russian positions. So this is the framework, in my view, in which Putin operates.

All the Cosmic Drama, as it is written in the four Gospels, should be lived inside ourselves, here and now. The isn't something merely historic, it's something to live, here and now!

I don't have a big thing about leaving my mark or being historic.

The handy thing about being a father is that the historic standard is so pitifully low.

Whether every story that's there [in the Bible] is a historic truth ... Again, I'm not concerned.

We are involved in a constitution-building process of historic importance. The Convention should mark a new stage in European integration.

I've been in silly movies and romantic movies and historic movies.

Cuba continues to be a source of instability in the region. For example, historic numbers of people are fleeing the island of Cuba, putting migratory pressure on the United States. Number two, this Cuban government is anti-American. They sponsor - they allow the Chinese and the Russians to conduct espionage, electronic espionage and others from the island of Cuba.

I'm passionate about history and there's no more historic place than London. We're sitting on a thousand years of history and you can smell it as you're walking around the streets.

You know what the Russians are saying is that they have an historic relationship with - with Crimea, and they're saying the Crimean legislature has voted now to have a referendum, and they're saying what the government in Kiev did was illegal.