History Quotes
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We live in an era with no historical precedents. History is no longer useful as a tool in helping us understand current changes.
Douglas Coupland -
We are at a major epoch in human history, which is that we don't need sex to recreate the race. You can have babies without sex. This is the first time in human history that has been true, and it means, for example, we could do some extraordinary things.
David Cronenberg
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History is the interpretation of the significance that the past has for us.
Johan Huizinga -
We have got to end the Democratic Party. Its history is so interwoven with starting, keeping, trying to push slavery on beyond anything that it should have been through.
Louie Gohmert -
I loved psychology and I loved history.
Joely Fisher -
I subscribe to William Faulkner's' view that history is not just about what we were before but who we are now.
Ken Burns -
The history of art and art’s condition at any time are pretty messy. They should stay that way. One can think about them as much as one likes, but they won’t become neater; neatness isn’t even a very good reason for thinking about them. A lot of things just can’t be connected.
Donald Judd -
St. Louis has a super-rich history of soccer, so I was very fortunate growing up to have coaches that played.
Becky Sauerbrunn
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I threw away the whole of my working history, my photograph albums, diaries and stage clothes. Shoving big, ugly discs on walls is a bit like rubbing people's faces in it, saying 'I am considerably richer than you.' It is completely unnecessary.
Alison Moyet -
I think that America has an obsession with history, really.
JJ Feild -
And history also shows that seemingly ordinary people who are sufficiently resolute about justice can triumph over the most formidable adversaries.
Edward Snowden -
I am re-reading Henry James as a change from history. I began with Daisy Miller, and I've just finished Washington Square. What a brilliant, painful book.
Antonia Fraser -
No place is a place until things that have happened in it are remembered in history, ballads, yarns, legends, or monuments. Fictions serve as well as facts.
Wallace Stegner -
What we need now is the greatest generation of young adults in the history of the Church. We need your whole heart and soul. In other words, it's time to raise the bar not only for missionaries but also for returned missionaries and for your entire generation.
M. Russell Ballard
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Christian Science has been enormously influential in our religious history, and the church is very powerful. It has won an extraordinary number of legal battles in this country. It has succeeded in passing a number of what are called 'religious exemption laws.'
Caroline Fraser -
I kind of have an interest in all history. And I suspect it comes from being Irish - we like stories, we like telling stories, which makes a lot of us lean towards being writers or actors or directors.
Colm Meaney -
I think it's time, not for the Washington Redskins to change their name but for the Democratic Party to change its name. Because all you have to do is go online and look up the history of the Democratic Party. It's one of oppressing African-Americans. It's one of supporting slavery and the horrors that occurred in the United States.
Louie Gohmert -
When we study history we obtain a more profound insight into human nature by instituting a comparison between the present and former states of society.
Charles Lyell -
Blacks in America want to forget about slavery - the stigma, the shame. If you can't be who you are, who can you be? How can you know what to do? We have our history. We have our book, and that is the blues.
August Wilson -
Film music has a great history of composers and performers.
David Newman
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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.
John Hume -
The anguish of the third dimension is given its first verbal manifestation in poetic history in King Lear. (p. 18)
Marshall McLuhan -
But when you are embodied in a location, in a physical plant, in a set of people, and in a common history, that constrains your evolution and your ability to evolve in certain directions.
Kevin Kelly -
The Russians have a long history of interfering in elections - theirs and other people's.
James R. Clapper