Famous Quotes & Sayings

Trey Anastasio

If there's one thing I discovered since I came back from hiatus, it's that you can't go backwards.

Trey Parker

Hippies, hippies... they want to save the world but all they do is smoke pot and play frisbee!

Saul Bellow

Well, everybody has a history.

Sarah Dessen

But unfriendly is usually one of those things you pick up on right away. You know, like B.O. There's no hiding it if it's there.

Sarah Dessen

You know, feeling and action are always linked, one can't exist without the other. It's sort of a hippie thing.-Wes

Sarah Dessen

Nothing like being scolded by a hippie.

Sandra Day O'Connor

Statutes authorizing unreasonable searches were the core concern of the framers of the 4th Amendment.

I have no history but the length of my bones.

Robert Plant

What I lack in style and craft, I can make up for in joy and enthusiasm. I like to be around people who are at ease so I like to think the 25-year-old [I] would find me quite an easy-going late-middle-aged hippie.

Robert Plant

I'm not a sad old hippie - I'm a joyous old hippie.

Sarah Sutton

I like the stories with the historical themes.

Sarah Vowell

What are you hiding? No one ever asks that.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

If people could learn history, what lessons it might teach us!

Samuel Johnson

All history was at first oral.

Samuel Johnson

The history of mankind is little else than a narrative of designs which have failed and hopes that have been disappointed.

Wallace Stevens

I was the world in which I walked.

Washington Irving

A woman's life is a history of the affections.

Walter Kaufmann

Paul substituted faith in Christ for the Christlike life.

Voltaire

History is but the record of crimes and misfortunes. L'histoire n'est que le tableau des crimes et des malheurs

Voltaire

All the ancient histories, as one of our wits say, are just fables that have been agreed upon

Voltaire

History consists of a series of accumulated imaginative inventions.

Voltaire

Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.

Voltaire

This agglomeration which was called and which still calls itself the Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire.

Voltaire

History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes.

Voltaire

History contains little beyond a list of people who have accommodate themselves with other people's property.

William Ernest Hocking

However rich we may become in knowledge of the deeper causes of historical results, we forgo all understanding of history if we forget this inner continuity,--i.e., the conscious intentions of the participants in history-making and their consciously known successes.

William Irwin Thompson

Fairy tales and myths are forms of cultural storage for the natural history of life.

William Least Heat-Moon

Historical awareness is a kind of resurrection.

Walter Scott

There is a vulgar incredulity, which in historical matters, as well as in those of religion, finds it easier to doubt than to examine.

Walter Isaacson

The people who invented the twenty-first century were pot-smoking, sandal-wearing hippies from the West Coast like Steve, because they saw differently,” he said. "The hierarchical systems of the East Coast, England, Germany, and Japan do not encourage this different thinking. The sixties produced an anarchic mind-set that is great for imagining a world not yet in existence.

William Kidd

This is a very fickle and faithless generation.

Winston Churchill

History is written by the victors.

Willie Mays

When I'm not hitting, I don't hit nobody. But, when I'm hitting, I hit anybody.