Famous Quotes
- Jewelry and pins have been worn throughout history as symbols of power, sending messages. Interestingly enough, it was mostly men who wore the jewelry in various times, and obviously crowns were part of signals that were being sent throughout history by people of rank.
- Madeleine Albright on History
- Jews have a special relationship to books, and the Haggadah has been translated more widely, and reprinted more often, than any other Jewish book. It is not a work of history or philosophy, not a prayer book, user's manual, timeline, poem or palimpsest - and yet it is all these things.
- Jonathan Safran Foer on History
- Jews read the books of Moses not just as history but as divine command. The question to which they are an answer is not, 'What happened?' but rather, 'How then shall I live?' And it's only with the exodus that the life of the commands really begins.
- Jonathan Sacks on History
- Judged by the law of England, I know this crime entails upon me the penalty of death but the history of Ireland explains that crime and justifies it.
- Thomas Francis Meagher on History
- Judging from the main portions of the history of the world, so far, justice is always in jeopardy.
- Walt Whitman on History
- Just in general, any government throughout history hasn't really wanted its people to be educated, because then they couldn't control them as easily.
- Maynard James Keenan on History
- Just touching that old tree was truly moving to me because when you touch these trees, you have such a sense of the passage of time, of history. It's like you're touching the essence, the very substance of life.
- Keeping books on social aid is capitalistic nonsense. I just use the money for the poor. I can't stop to count it.
- Evita Peron on History
- Last year I was diagnosed with osteoporosis. I was over 50, Caucasian, thin, small-framed, and I have it in my genetic history. It was almost a slam-dunk.
- Sally Field on History
- Legend remains victorious in spite of history.
- Sarah Bernhardt on History
- Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age.
- H. L. Mencken on History
- Let me tell you, never before in the history of this planet has anybody made the progress that African-Americans have made in a 30-year period, in spite of many black folks and white folks lying to one another.
- Dick Gregory on History
- Let's be very honest about what this is about. It's not about bashing Democrats, it's not about taxes, they have no idea what the Boston tea party was about, they don't know their history at all. This is about hating a black man in the White House. This is racism straight up.
- Janeane Garofalo on History
- Liberty has never come from Government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it.
- Woodrow Wilson on History
- Libraries are not made, they grow.
- Augustine Birrell on History
- Life doesn't just happen it's constructed through the history of power. And that's something I am interested in and so is the art world: a world that's trying to engage socially, with a leftist slant, to work out how we got here.
- Mike Mills on History
- Life is a wonderful thing to talk about, or to read about in history books - but it is terrible when one has to live it.
- Jean Anouilh on History
- Life isn't meant to be easy. It's hard to take being on the top - or on the bottom. I guess I'm something of a fatalist. You have to have a sense of history, I think, to survive some of these things... Life is one crisis after another.
- Richard M. Nixon on History
- Life moves fast. As much as you can learn from your history, you have to move forward.
- Eddie Vedder on History
- Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recourse against a sense of something missing. But the contrary is also true: language is what makes us human. It is a recourse against the meaningless noise and silence of nature and history.
- Octavio Paz on History
- Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers.
- Carlos Fuentes on History
- Little islands of human happiness, peace, and prosperity are so exceptional at this point in history that I'm not even sure we can draw lessons from them.
- P. J. O'Rourke on History
- Live out of your imagination, not your history.
- Stephen Covey on History
- Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.
- C. S. Lewis on History
- Love is more pleasant than marriage for the same reason that novels are more amusing than history.
- Nicolas Chamfort on History
- Love is never defeated, and I could add, the history of Ireland proves it.
- Pope John Paul II on History
- Love is the whole history of a woman's life, it is but an episode in a man's.
- Madame De Stael on History
- Macon has such a rich musical history - and the state of Georgia, as well.
- Jason Aldean on History
- Man is not logical and his intellectual history is a record of mental reserves and compromises. He hangs on to what he can in his old beliefs even when he is compelled to surrender their logical basis.
- John Dewey on History
- Man seems to insist on ignoring the lessons available from history.
- Norman Borlaug on History
- Man's naked form belongs to no particular moment in history it is eternal, and can be looked upon with joy by the people of all ages.
- Auguste Rodin on History
- Mankind has probably done more damage to the Earth in the 20th century than in all of previous human history.
- Jacques Yves Cousteau on History
- May it not be that, just as we have to have faith in Him, God has to have faith in us and, considering the history of the human race so far, may it not be that 'faith' is even more difficult for Him than it is for us?
- W. H. Auden on History
- Meditation while walking has a long, noble history in ancient spiritual disciplines.
- Andrew Weil on History
- Megacollectors suppose they can enter art history by spending astronomical amounts.
- Jerry Saltz on History
- Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history.
- Aldous Huxley on History
- Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.
- Harry S. Truman on History
- Minimalism seems closest to the sophisticated storytelling of movies. Movies have really educated contemporary audiences to be the most intelligent, sophisticated audiences in history. We don't any longer need to have the relationship between one scene and the next explained. We will figure it out ourselves.
- Chuck Palahniuk on History
- More people have more access to more readers for less money than ever before in history. It means a lot of dross but it means a lot of very talented people can find and nurture a readership in ways that were not possible twenty years ago. From a creative perspective, that is all that writing is about.
- John Hodgman on History
- Most foreign policies that history has marked highly, in whatever country, have been originated by leaders who were opposed by experts.
- Henry A. Kissinger on History
- Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done.
- Louis D. Brandeis on History
- Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of replacing what worked with what sounded good.
- Thomas Sowell on History
- Music can be healing, and with my history and my knowledge of both sides of what looks like a gigantic divide in the world, I feel I can point a way forward to our common humanity again.
- Cat Stevens on History
- My argument is that War makes rattling good history but Peace is poor reading.
- Thomas Hardy on History
- My face has changed with the years and has enough history in it to give audiences something to work with.
- Jeanne Moreau on History
- My father and I made genetics history. We were the first African-Americans and the first father and son anywhere to have their genomes sequenced.
- Henry Louis Gates on History
- My father was my main influence. He was a preacher, but he was also a history and political science teacher, and since he was my hero, I wanted to follow in his footsteps and become a teacher.
- David Soul on History
- My generation of bossy, confident, baby-boom women were something brand new in history. Our energy and assertiveness weren't created by Betty Friedan, unknown before her 1963 book, or by Gloria Steinem, whose political activism, as even the Lifetime profile admitted, did not begin until 1969.
- Camille Paglia on History
- My major allegiance has been to storytelling, not to history.
- Russell Banks on History
- My mother, whom I love dearly, has continually revised my life story within the context of a complicated family history that includes more than the usual share of divorce, step-children, dysfunction, and obfuscation. I've spent most of my adult life attempting to deconstruct that history and separate fact from fiction.
- Melissa Gilbert on History
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