History Quotes
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As a person of color, as a woman, as a body moving through this particular space in time, I realize the streets of New York tell the story of resistance, an African-American history of brilliance and beauty that, even in its most brutal moments, did not - could not - kill our resilient and powerful spirit.
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Purely historical thought is therefore nihilistic: it wholeheartedly accepts the evil of history and in this way is opposed to rebellion.
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In many ways, a degree in the history of ideas is the ideal training for an aspiring writer.
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History is opaque. You see what comes out, not the script that produces events, ... The generator of historical events is different from the events themselves, much as the minds of the gods cannot be read just by witnessing their deeds.
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OUR history begins before we are born. We represent the hereditary influences of our race, and our ancestors virtually live in us.
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I like the course, the history - everything about St. Andrews.
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Without passion there might be no errors, but without passion there would certainly be no history.
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There is this way that I felt when I was younger that we were beyond history and we were all citizens of the world that now seems so naive.
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History was a hobby for about, oh, 20 years before I got into print.
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We are at a point in our nation's history when the right leadership is needed more than ever. Hillary has spent her life advocating for poor and working class families. Hillary will help build an economy for tomorrow and beyond; strengthen America's families; defend our country and its core values; and revitalize our democracy.
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Film music has a great history of composers and performers.
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The thing I hate the most about advertising is that it attracts all the bright, creative and ambitious young people, leaving us mainly with the slow and self-obsessed to become our artists.. Modern art is a disaster area. Never in the field of human history has so much been used by so many to say so little.
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Thanks to history books, I have realised that people over the years have been dying of war, and that enabled me to realise that there is nothing stupid like war.
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I write and film history; I don't make it. One can be a good critic and a moral observer, but one remains professionally detached as a writer and a filmmaker.
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History is merciless. History doesn't care if we pound our society down a rat hole. It's up to us to make more intelligent choices about how we live!
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That is the American story. People, just like you, following their passions, determined to meet the times on their own terms. They weren't doing it for the money. Their titles weren't fancy. But they changed the course of history and so can you.
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How do you make any sense of history, art or literature without knowing the stories and iconography of your own culture and all the world's main religions?
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If we look at music history closely, it is not difficult to isolate certain elements of great potency which were to nourish the art of music for decades, if not centuries.
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'The Others' books take place in an alternate Earth where the Earth natives have been the dominant predators throughout the world's history, and humans are nowhere near the top of the food chain. But humans are clever and resilient, if not always wise, and have made some bargains with the Others in order to survive.
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The WWE Championship is the greatest championship in the history of this sport. It has the most history of anything.
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The history of New Orleans was always a fascination to me - such a blend of light and darkness and plague and pleasure and hedonism and fear and death. It's just a very, very intriguing city. I have this strange love relationship with it.
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Major league baseball is about the history of the game. Baseball history is so important. It's so much more than money.
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It's interesting because I haven't done a lot of period work in the past, but I always wanted to because I'm interested in history.
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There is no significant example in history, before our time, of a society successfully maintaining moral life without the aid of religion.
