Archibald F. Bennett Quotes

There is no more fascinating subject in which a person may become occupied than an examination into the history of his ancestry.

Archibald F. Bennett

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• 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

• It's very important for cities all around the world to reinvent themselves, and Glasgow is a good example of that. The Scots are very nice. I don't think they are burdened by their history.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • World
  • Good
  • Important

• There was no United States before slavery. I am sure somebody can make some sort of argument about modern French identity and slavery and North Africa, but there simply is no American history before black people.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • American
  • History

• Indeed, throughout much of history and in many cultures, redheads have been viewed with suspicion and fear - and even killed - because of their hair.

  

  Kate Williams
  • History
  • Fear
  • Hair

• There's a lot of history in Boston and a lot of history, obviously, in New York with all the championships.

  

  Rafael Palmeiro
  • History
  • New
  • New York

• My inspiration is love and history.

  

  Waris Ahluwalia
  • Love
  • History
  • Inspiration

• History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.

  

  Karl Marx
  • History
  • First
  • Tragedy

• In the history of photography, we have many masterpieces in terms of black and white books. You have Bresson's 'Decisive Moment,' Frank's 'The Americans'... many masterpieces. But there is nothing to this caliber in color. Well, I think I'll waltz with my muse and hope that I might be able to produce something on this order in color.

  

  Ralph Gibson
  • History
  • Hope
  • Black

• I have one of the worst voices in the history of recorded time.

  

  Zach Anner
  • Time
  • History
  • Worst

• Every reality show plot pales in comparison to our history.

  

  Rachel Skarsten
  • History
  • Reality
  • Comparison

• You have Extreme and Van Halen and the history that I have with other people I played with. There are some effects that will hopefully break that stereotype.

  

  Gary Cherone Van Halen
  • People
  • History
  • Stereotype

• Democrats have a long history of utilizing the threat of a potential Ebola outbreak to request massive federal funds while attacking Republicans for expressing skepticism over their funding schemes.

  

  Aaron Klein
  • Long
  • History
  • Potential

• People ask me whether I see 'Star Wars' as a comedy or a tragedy, but it's really neither - it's partly a history, like 'Henry V,' and partly a fantasy, like 'The Tempest.'

  

  Ian Doescher
  • People
  • History
  • Comedy

• I wish that they had the freedoms like the Japanese and the Koreans and the Mexicans and everybody else that has that freedom to come over here and play the game, because I know Cuba has a very strong baseball history.

  

  Rafael Palmeiro
  • History
  • Game
  • Strong

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

  

  Quavo Migos
  • History
  • You
  • Attention

• I started attending community college when I was 14 or 15, just doing general education stuff like history and mathematics. Then I went on to California State University Long Beach to pursue a degree in journalism. And then I ended up dropping out to found Oculus.

  

  Palmer Luckey
  • Up
  • Long
  • History

• Passion, intellect, moral activity - these three have never been satisfied in a woman. In this cold and oppressive conventional atmosphere, they cannot be satisfied. To say more on this subject would be to enter into the whole history of society, of the present state of civilisation.

  

  Florence Nightingale
  • History
  • Society
  • Passion

• What is the use trying to describe the flowing of a river at any one moment, and then at the next moment, and then at the next, and the next, and the next? You wear out. You say: There is a great river, and it flows through this land, and we have named it History.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Great
  • Trying
  • History

• In the India I was growing up in, history wasn't really a wise career option. People would joke and say, 'History's okay, but what's your actual job?' I didn't come from a privileged background and couldn't afford to be irresponsible, so I did the pragmatic thing and did a MBA.

  

  Amish Tripathi
  • People
  • Up
  • Job

• Sometimes life takes hold of one, carries the body along, accomplishes one's history, and yet is not real, but leaves oneself as it were slurred over.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Life
  • Real
  • History

• The reason I’m not more political is because I have music. And from a young age, I needed it. After prison, my father came to America, joined the Army, fought in Vietnam - and was exposed to Agent Orange. He died a slow, horrible death. Music was my escape.

  

  Gloria Estefan Miami Sound Machine
  • Music
  • America
  • Age

• There is no more fascinating subject in which a person may become occupied than an examination into the history of his ancestry.

  

  Archibald F. Bennett
  • History
  • Subject
  • Examination