Famous Quotes & Sayings

Erich Fromm

We live in a world of things, and our only connection with them is that we know how to manipulate or to consume them.

Being the first in school history to do this shows that our program at UND is amazing. This is a pretty big deal, but the main point is that we're not done and need to keep going.

Jim Crace

Because I'm a walker, natural history is my subject; I've always been obsessed with landscape, and I have an elegiac tone in most of my books.

Every day of your life is a page of your history

Sheldon Lee Glashow

String theory has had a long and wonderful history. It originated as a technique to try to understand the strong force. It was a calculational mechanism, a way of approaching a mathematical problem that was too difficult, and it was a promising way, but it was only a technique. It was a mathematical technique rather than a theory in itself.

Do you own your history, or does someone else own your history? ... There's the play that you're telling, and then there's the play that's underneath that.

Bernie Sanders

Ted Kennedy will go down in history as one of the giants of the U.S. Senate and one the most accomplished legislators in American history.

It would be the first time in the history of mankind that a pandemic has been stamped out before it happened.

Mike Jones

These letters are like touchstones in history to me. I really want to put them out.

the smallest percentage increase in the history of the pension plan.

Kathy Smith

As a historian, I'm very thrilled to be here because it is a moment in history for our city.

Joe Thomas

At university, I said to a girl, 'Before I met you all I could think about was history; now, all I can think about is you'. I thought that was the sort of thing you had to say.

That's where the history is, and that's where it should stay.

That's what we're saying: 'Let's make history,' ... We don't want to go down in history as losing this series. We have T-shirts that say 'Why not us?'

That (the 9-1 mark) doesn't mean anything this week. The history of the series is something people need to write stories about or talk about (on the radio). It doesn't really have anything to do with the game.

Martina Navratilova

That's just a footnote. Losing the tie is the history. If I was worried about it, I wouldn't have taken the risk and played.

This team knows that they are part of history but it also knows that they have done nothing yet.

Matt Clement

This team is pretty resilient, ... Their history is being pretty resilient and hopefully that will be the case.

This verdict will go into the dustbin of history.

Confucius

Things that are done, it is needless to speak about; things that are past it is needless to blame.

Robert M. Parker, Jr.

The wine world is so big. Yes, there are styles of wines I don't like. Orange wine, natural wines and low-alcohol wines. Truth is on my side, and history will prove I am right.

These are ... sites that have a history of contamination, all of which are linked to massive neglect.

Harvey Fierstein

With her understanding of 'Fiddler's' important place in theatrical history, I am positive she will uphold that tradition excitingly.

Carl Pavano

You have to turn the page. Don't let history repeat itself.

Russell Tovey

When I was really young, I wanted to be a history teacher because I was obsessed with the past.

Grandma Moses

What a strange thing is memory, and hope; one looks backward, the other forward; one is of today, the other of tomorrow. Memory is history recorded in our brain, memory is a painter, it paints pictures of the past and of the day.

There's going to be a nastiness to this series, I'll tell you right now. These two teams don't like each other. There's a lot of different players, but there's still history between the organizations from two years ago.

The timing of the 'give-away' of the retail units was possibly one of the worst in the history of American business.

Alan Stern

The United States is going to go down in history for the initial reconnaissance of the planets.

Larry Sabato

Is it possible that he can come back? Sure. There have been some tremendous and significant rebounds in American history and this would be one of them.

is going to plague him not only in his second term but in history even in Texas.

Megan Smith

I've been working on the lost history of technical women.

I've been told the most wins in school history is 13.