History Making Quotes

The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.

I'm down for making history.

I seem to be the only Western playwright not personally acquainted with the new President of Czechoslovakia [Vaclav Havel]. I envy him though. What a relief to find oneself head of state and not have to write plays but just make history. And no Czechoslovak equivalent of Charles Osborne snapping at your ankles complaining that the history you’re making falls between every possible stool, or some Prague Steven Berkoff snarling that it’s not the kind of history that’s worth making anyway. I wonder whether Havel has lots of uncompleted dissident plays. To put them on now would be somehow inappropriate. Still, he could write a play about it.

Man is a history—making creature who can neither repeat his past nor leave it behind.

I like to make history.

Meet the Press is not just another news show but is history in the making.

Imagine a history teacher making history.

I feel like I'm too busy writing history to read it.

Men live in history as never before …. we make and change history minute by minute. History is not the book or the human memory. We do history in the morning and change it after lunch.

The work of today is the history of tomorrow, and we are its makers.

My job isn't to create history; it's to go out there and perform at my best.

Anybody can make history. Only a great man can write it.

Ages employed in making history have no time for studying it.

History is simply a piece of paper covered with print; the main thing is still to make history, not to write it.

I think Hillary Clinton - first of all, it's a great victory, acknowledge it. She has made history.

I wanted to be a part of history and not just a recorder and teacher of history. So that kind of attitude towards history, history itself as a political act, has always informed my writing and my teaching.

Madam, you're making history, in fact, you're making me, and I wish you'd keep my hands to yourself

Men must make their history themselves through their own actions

The main thing is to make history, not to write it.

We don't look at records, but if we can make history in this club, we will. It's not only about Chelsea, this league.

Roll up your sleeves, set your mind to making history, and wage such a fight for liberty that the whole world will respect our sex.

Democratic presidential candidate Al Gore officially introduced his history-making running mate today, Senator Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut....In their first joint appearance they gave a preview of the Gore-Lieberman fight-back, comeback strategy. Their message: They represent the future, not the past, and they are the ticket of high moral standards most in tune with real mainstream America.

I just want to create my own history.

As storytellers, you're always somehow creating history.

You can put people's feet to the fire a bit just by reminding them that we're constantly creating our own history.