60 Best History Quotes

We are simply passing through history. This… this is history. – Indiana Jones

Knowledge was their treasure. – Harold Oxley

The past is never dead. It's not even past. – William Faulkner (quoted by various)

There are still many causes worth sacrificing for, so much history yet to be made. – Michelle Obama

Let's not forget, we are a nation of immigrants. – Kamala Harris

You could give Aristotle a tutorial. And you could thrill him to the core of his being. Aristotle would be thrilled, I think, to learn the true explanation of the rainbow. – Richard Dawkins

The more you know about the history of what you're doing, the more freedom you have. – Martin Scorsese

I'm a film historian. That's what I do. That's my bag. – Quentin Tarantino

I think that cinema, movies, and magic have always been closely associated. The very earliest people who made film were magicians. – Francis Ford Coppola

I'm fascinated by the meeting point of the ancient and the futuristic. – Ridley Scott