Alan Brinkley Quotes

It should not be in the book for titillating purposes or settling scores. It should be in the book because of its significance to our recent history.

Alan Brinkley

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• I have a lot of breast cancer history on my mother's side of the family.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • Family
  • History
  • Mother

• I'm resigned to the fact that the corseted history of America is not as exciting as that of Britain.

  

  Felicia Day
  • America
  • History
  • Fact

• No one should be left to suffer alone.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • Alone
  • Should
  • Suffer

• Emotions come first, and in the most direct sense: you first have an emotion and then have a feeling. But also first in the history of the human race, for the ability to have emotions long preceded the ability to have feelings.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • Long
  • History
  • Feeling

• The history of philosophy is not, like the history of the sciences, to be studied with the intellect alone. That which is receptive in us and that which impinges upon us from history is the reality of man's being, unfolding itself in thought.

  

  Karl Jaspers
  • History
  • Man
  • Reality

• NASA projects often have romantic names that link into a long history of exploration and adventure: Atlantis and Discovery, for example.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Long
  • History
  • Romantic

• Until Eleanor Roosevelt, there was only one or two First Ladies in all of American history who made an impact, who people could even have recognized or identified. And it's really only been since Jackie Kennedy that there's been this idea that the family life of the president is such a central thing.

  

  Gail Collins
  • People
  • Life
  • Family

• The illusion is that most of my work is simply about past events: a point in history and nothing else.

  

  Kara Walker
  • Work
  • History
  • Past

• In this decisive hour of our national history, union means life and division means death.

  

  Bao Dai
  • Life
  • History
  • Death

• The biggest battles in human history can only ever be seen through the eyes of the bloke on the front line, and that's by definition a very focused view and one that will vary from individual to individual.

  

  Karen Traviss
  • History
  • Eyes
  • View

• With my history of concussions, the WWE wants to protect me, so I've had to take a lot of neurological testing.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • History
  • Me
  • Testing

• Most of the best music in American history was made by people with no options.

  

  Sir Isaac Brock KB
  • People
  • Music
  • American

• If you could have imagined that someone is happy that Obama is president, it has to be Jimmy Carter because he is no longer the worst president in our history.

  

  Oliver North
  • History
  • Happy
  • Worst

• The United States has written the white history of the United States. It now needs to write the black, Latino, Indian, Asian and Caribbean history of the United States.

  

  Carlos Fuentes
  • History
  • Black
  • White

• Whosoever, in writing a modern history, shall follow truth too near the heels, it may happily strike out his teeth.

  

  Walter Raleigh
  • Writing
  • May
  • Truth

• We are proud of the history of our country; we learned it in school and have grown up hearing of freedom, justice and human rights.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Up
  • Country
  • School

• History repeats itself. So you might wanna pay attention.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • History
  • You
  • Attention

• Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • History
  • Try
  • Library

• You don't change the course of history by turning the faces of portraits to the wall.

  

  Jawaharlal Nehru
  • History
  • Wall

• The history of the last century shows, as we shall see later, that the advice given to governments by bankers, like the advice they gave to industrialists, was consistently good for bankers, but was often disastrous for governments, businessmen, and the people generally.

  

  Carroll Quigley
  • People
  • History
  • Advice

• I'm surprised at the loyalty of the country music fan. People that started out with us at 'Prayin' for Daylight' still come to multiple shows a year.

  

  Jay DeMarcus Rascal Flatts
  • Year
  • Surprised
  • Music Fan

• The construction of a courthouse is a long-term investment in a building where important public business is done. But that does not justify extravagant expenditures. Courthouses should be dignified, durable, and functional. They should not be grandiose, monumental, and luxurious.

  

  Charles T. Canady
  • Important
  • Long
  • Done

• Spaceflight is a tricky business. It is definitely difficult, and I think we forget that sometime.

  

  Kathleen Rubins
  • Business

• It should not be in the book for titillating purposes or settling scores. It should be in the book because of its significance to our recent history.

  

  Alan Brinkley
  • History
  • Should
  • Purposes