History Quotes
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Give me one other part of history where everybody shows up to the same social space. Fragmentation is a more natural state of being.
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From time immemorial History has decreed that territory on this Planet Earth belongs to those powerful enough to take it and determined enough to keep it.
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And thus goes segregation which is the most far-reaching development in the history of the Negro since the enslavement of the race.
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I was totally absorbed in the real world, the politics, the history, the news, and I just couldn't find my way into the fictional world... When I finally could return to writing the novel, it was in fits and starts.
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Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things.
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I took the two most expensive aspirins in history.
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Surely every band wants to be a pivotal point in history.
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Photography has the capacity to provide images of man and his environment that are both works of art and moments in history.
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I don't really believe in trying to erase every Woody Allen movie from history. For one thing, that's kind of unfair to all the people who worked on those movies or albums or whatever it is. What did they do wrong to have their work erased from culture?
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Just to be part of the history of the Hollywood Bowl - so many people have played there; at least, all of my heroes have.
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If the history of the Day of Atonement has anything to say to us now it is: never relieve individuals of moral responsibility. The more we have, the more we grow.
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The history of the development of contemporary writing in Vancouver from 1946 to 1960 is pretty largely a one-man show, and that man was me.
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Perhaps it is because I'm a writer trained in history that I've always assumed I would make mistakes in my drafts. Historians know how faulty human memory can be.
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For me, it's more about being there, bearing witness to history, bearing witness to what's happening, what our country, the position our country is taking overseas. I want policy-makers to see the fruits of their decisions, basically, and to try and influence foreign policy.
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In the course of history no people have ever been given freedom like a present, and if freedom did not cost anything than no people would ever keep it! Freedom has a high price, and men must ever struggle to preserve it.
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I learned that in order to have a strong and credible voice, I needed to do more research into the history of black people in America while simultaneously digesting new and pertinent news.
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I am intrigued by inanimate objects. They're a piece of history, someone's statement and ideas of life.
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In over 160 years of recorded baseball history, no team had ever won a championship this way.
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The history of intellectual growth and discovery clearly demonstrates the need for unfettered freedom, the right to think the unthinkable, discuss the unmentionable, and challenge the unchallengeable.
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What is the thread of western civilization that distinguished its course in history? It has to do with the preoccupation of western man with his outward command and his sense of superiority.
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Those who become mentally ill often have a history of chronic pain.
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I've always had an interest in story-telling and history and just film and art in general, but particularly when it comes to storytelling, I think the reason why we became involved in film is because we wanted to get some great stories out there.
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Again and again there comes a time in history when the man who dares to say that two and two make four is punished with death. ("The Plague")
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History: A distillation of rumor.
