History Quotes
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Food is interesting to me because it's a way of understanding culture and societies and history. I would never write about food just as food. Just like I would never write about baseball just as baseball.
Mark Kurlansky -
There is no time in human history when you were more perfectly represented than in the Garden of Eden.
R. C. Sproul
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I am the greatest money player in history.
Bobby Riggs -
Combine two words, Myth and History. What do you get? Mystery.
Ashwin Sanghi -
Every time we revise our history, we also revise the mythology of our history.
Laura Anne Gilman -
My inspiration is always love and history, and my passion to a fault is craftsmanship and responsibility. Those are the simplest things. It goes beyond jewelry. It's every part of my life.
Waris Ahluwalia -
American culture is not about experiencing our shame, it's about denying it. It's been that way our whole history.
Chris Jordan -
When I was five, we moved to Virginia and lived inside an old fort that was surrounded by a moat. So when I heard stories of American history, I felt as if those dramas were taking place right in my own backyard.
Mary Pope Osborne
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Radical Islamic jihadists have a long-term vision. And if they have to stay in Europe to obtain a citizenship, to ultimately travel to the United States, and if it takes them five years or ten years, they're okay with that. History has proven that.
Jeff Duncan -
Even the most meticulous historians work subjectively. The historian's point of view, his or her selection of subject and sources, the emphasis, the tone - all of these lead to subjective history, inevitably so. I do not say this as a criticism, merely as an observation.
David Ebershoff -
One of the main things I know about O.J. Simpson is that he is a compulsive talker. So if I were to ask him one question, I would get 45 minutes on the history of the case. It would be irrelevant what I would ask him - he would just start talking.
Jeffrey Toobin -
The kitchen's a laboratory, and everything that happens there has to do with science. It's biology, chemistry, physics. Yes, there's history. Yes, there's artistry. Yes, to all of that. But what happened there, what actually happens to the food is all science.
Alton Brown -
The subject of history is the gradual realization of all that is practically necessary.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel -
Without a Jewish state, the iron truth of history is that the Jewish people sooner or later become even more vulnerable to the next wave of anti-Semitism.
Jack Schwartz
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I wish I could have 25,000 years of my personal family history documented in a very powerful computer or a CD-ROM that I could just pop in and my computer would never crash.
Brendan Fraser -
I realised that people respond to banal things. They don't accept their own history, not participating in acceptance within their own being.
Jeff Koons -
I think really, China, Chinese, I think they really have a long history of civilization, rich culture.
Dalai Lama -
My hero Socrates trained Plato on a rock. How much did that cost? So the greatest minds in history became the greatest minds in history without spending a lot of money.
Dave Brat -
From lies to forgeries the step is not so long, and I have written technical essays on the logic of forgeries and on the influence of forgeries on history.
Umberto Eco -
If you take a look at history, you will find that the understanding of what is good and evil has always existed before the individual religions. The religions were only invented by people afterwards, in order to express this idea.
Salman Rushdie
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Entertainment history is now the main source of supposedly historical knowledge for more and more people, but 'histo-tainment' is superficial and lacks all context.
Antony Beevor -
I love going to art galleries. The Tate Modern is one of my favourite things to do. But I don't invest in the history of it and I don't read up on it. I am a guy who would buy a print rather than buy an original.
James McAvoy -
The most successful families embrace and elevate their family history, particularly their failures, setbacks and other missteps.
Bruce Feiler -
The Champions League is the one thing missing from my career. When I look at the history of the competition and the people that have taken part, the top, top players have all won it. For many, it is why they have been regarded as top players.
Eden Hazard