Quotes of Historic - somelinesforyou

“ Russia will not soon become, if it ever becomes, a second copy of the United States or England - where liberal value have deep historic roots. ”

- Vladimir Putin

“ I think this was a historic occasion. ”

- Newt Gingrich

“ I don't know what they are going to be, but they are going to be historic. ”

- Jerry Lewis

“ I think this has been a historic week. ”

- Trent Lott

“ I think this has been an amazing year for American cinema. ”

- Ang Lee

“ I won't predict anything historic. But nothing is impossible. ”

- Michael Phelps

“ It's a historic and watershed moment for women in TV news...(and) it's a shame we had to wait so long to enter the 20th Century, let alone the 21st century. ”

- Connie Chung

“ We have swept through all of the planets in the solar system, from Mercury to Neptune, in a historic 20 (to) 30 year age of spacecraft discovery. ”

- Carl Edward Sagan

“ Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides. ”

- Margaret Thatcher

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

- Milan Kundera

“ To the humblest among them, who may be listening to me now, I want to say that the masterpiece to which you are paying historic homage this evening is a painting which he has saved. ”

- Andre Malraux

“ Now, 0 for 50 would be a historic achievement on any other team, but on the Cubs it is usually called September. ”

- Bernie Lincicome

“ I relied first and last on God Almighty, confident Bahrainis' peoples' consciousness, civilized mindset and political maturity, to come forward and take a responsible historic decision. ”

- Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa

“ Man lives consciously for himself, but is an unconscious instrument in the attainment of the historic, universal, aims of humanity. ”

- Leo Tolstoy

“ The historic ascent of humanity, taken as a whole, may be summarized as a succession of victories of consciousness over blind forces — in nature, in society, in man himself. ”

- Leon Trotsky

“ The first farmer was the first man. All historic nobility rests on the possession and use of land. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ I don't know what they mean by an icon. I never thought of myself as being that. It seems strange to me. I was just modeling, thinking of as many different poses as possible. I made more money modeling than being a secretary. I had a lot of free time… ”

- Bette Page

“ India is the cradle of the human race, the birthplace of human speech, the mother of history, the grandmother of legend, and the great grand mother of tradition. Our most valuable and most astrictive materials in the history of man are treasured up in India only! ”

- Mark Twain

“ Hooray Henries are aged between 18 and 30; main interest, getting drunk together; ambition, if ambitious: to get drunk enough to do some crazy thing which will go down in the Hooray annals as a Historic Act of Hilarity. ”

- Peter York

“ Oddly, I've been brought into a conflict the town is facing now. A pharmacy chain is threatening to demolish four historic houses near the one I grew up in to build a drive-thru superstore. The money they're offering is beyond anyone's expectations, yet the town could cannibalize its heritage and never quite recover. ”

- Bill Pullman
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