History Quotes
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So many struggled so that all of us could have a voice in this great democracy and live up to the first three words of our constitution: We the people. I love that phrase so much. Throughout our country's history, we've expanded the meaning of that phrase to include more and more of us. That's what it means to move forward.
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I was thinking of writing a little foreword saying that history is, after all, based on people's recollections, which change with time.
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The Shambhala teachings are founded on the premise that there is basic human wisdom that can help to solve the world's problems. This wisdom does not belong to any one culture or religion, nor does it come only from the West or the East. Rather it is a tradition of human warrior-ship that has existed in many cultures at many times throughout history.
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At AT&T, I learned an awful lot about people, and how important it is to have the right people in the right jobs. And when I say 'right people,' I'm not talking about their college degree or work history; I'm talking about things like bearing - How does this person interact with other people? Can he or she talk to you and not tick you off?
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The FBI has had a history of sex discrimination complaints brought against it, as well as race discrimination.
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In America journalism is apt to be regarded as an extension of history: in Britain, as an extension of conversation.
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The question of sort of music and history, I think, are so important to understanding the poem as an idea but also us as people in the world.
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In absolute terms, I am the most legally persecuted man of all times, in the whole history of mankind, worldwide.
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If you look at zombie movies throughout history, they're always making adjustments. Even the idea of the virus zombies and the back-from-the-dead zombies... there's been tons of tweaks.
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Revelation announces that God is still in control and that he will conclude this stage of history the way he has promised.
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I like to be buttoned onto tradition. The thing is to improve it, twist it and mold it; to make something new of it; not to deny it. The riches of history can be plucked at any point.
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The way I work: I pick a country. I learn the political history - I mean I really learn it; I read until it sinks in. Once I read the political history, I can project and find the clandestine history. And then I people it with the characters.
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I love history because when you strip away the social and political aspects, it's really just a bunch of fun stories.
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History tends to take the simplest possible view. As soon as you start to scratch the surface of any historical event, it starts to become more and more complicated, which is not the stuff of Hollywood films. Complications tend to break down the budget.
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Gaston was not only a fierce lover, with endless wisdom and imagination, but he was also, perhaps, the first man in the history of the species who had made an emergency landing and had come close to killing himself and his sweetheart simply to make love in a field of violets.
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I haven't studied history - I couldn't give a discourse in medieval literature - but I am a personal historian, and I do a lot to take in the histories of the people around me.
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To change history is very slow. The first two times I came to the States - black people didn't have the right to vote.
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Literature is the history of the soul.
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I stood close to the materialist conception of history, since in early womanhood I had inclined towards the realistic school.
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The southward advance of native African farmers with Central African crops halted in Natal, beyond which Central African crops couldn't grow - with enormous consequences for the recent history of South Africa.
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No, my degree was history, not the practice of art! I can't draw to save my life you know.
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From the dawn of history, science has probed the universe of unknowns, searching for the uniting laws of nature.
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With the '39 Clues,' we were making history jump out of the page for the readers, so they don't know they're learning. The kids can't put the books down - it's so exciting.
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I think that's not a question that one can answer accurately. I read a whole range of books, quite a lot of history at the time, and still do read a lot. I read very widely.
