History Quotes
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Every single immigrant is part of a larger history that needs to be communicated in all its ambivalences and complexities.
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My favourite finds are often antique pieces with a history.
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The great forces of history were real, after a fashion. But when you examined them closely, those great forces always came down to the dreams and hungers and judgments of individuals. The choices they made were real. They mattered.
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I'm a big John Steinbeck fan. Cormac McCarthy. I've always loved the stories of regular people. Mark Twain, too. When you look back at some of the epic writers of our country's history, very rarely do you find upper-class royalty. We seem to delve into the struggle of life and the labor of life much more frequently.
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We are facing a tipping point of environmental crisis unprecedented in human history and our very survival is dependent on protecting nature.
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A poet in history is divine, but a poet in the next room is a joke.
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I would never lie to anyone about history.
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There is a history of mental breakdowns in my family. It will never happen to me but it has happened to others in the family.
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I once won a second prize in a history concert. My parents came to the ceremony. Somebody else had won the prize for best all-around student. Afterwards my father said to me, 'Never, ever disgrace me like that again.' When I tell my Western friends, they are aghast. But I adore my father. It didn't knock my self-esteem at all.
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The longest suicide note in history.
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I hope history will judge us to have tackled the problem effectively and delivered a sustainable future for Britain's public services.
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In the character of the victim Lincoln, and even in the accessories of his last moments, there is something so homely and innocent that it takes the question, as it were, out of all the pomp of history and the ceremonial of diplomacy-it touches the heart of nations and appeals to the domestic sentiment of mankind.
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The history of trying to start a daily where there already is one is that it has never worked.
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A key goal for an author of history is to persuade his or her readers to forget what they know and to relive the world as it unfolded for characters of the time - with outcomes uncertain.
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It is beyond a doubt that during the sixteenth century, and the years immediately preceding and following it, poisoning had been brought to a pitch of perfection which remains unknown to modern chemistry, but which is indisputably proved by history. Italy, the cradle of modern science, was at that time, the inventor and mistress of these secrets, many of which are lost.
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When you think of the long and gloomy history of man, you will find more hideous crimes have been committed in the name of obedience than have ever been committed in the name of rebellion.
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It's about process, the process of growth. It seems to me in my own life - and other minds throughout history have also observed this phenomenon - that growth seems to move in two directions at the same time.
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I don't look at myself as a historical icon, but the reality of it is, yeah, I am playing for history now.
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Far too often, when we think we are frightened by mystery, the fact is that we are haunted by history.
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Kennedy invited us into the White House-the first time in the history of the White House picketers had been invited inside. This made front page headlines.
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I long for the time when all human history is taught as one history, because it really is.
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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.
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I do not speak Hebrew, but I understand that it has no word for 'history.' The closest word for it is memory.
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As best I could tell, Americans had little ability to learn from history. We were doomed to repeat the past, again and again.
