Quotes about history
history village shallow
I am ashamed to see what a shallow village tale our so-called history is. Ralph Waldo Emerson
history archives language
Language is the archives of history.
history battle valleys
The Battle of Koom Valley is the only one known to history where both sides ambushed each other. Terry Pratchett
history long tricks
History always has a few tricks up its frayed sleeve. It's been around a long time.
history tools politician
History is a tool used by politicians to justify their intentions. Ted Koppel
history records gains
The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records between the material and the moral nature.
history evil lessons
The first lesson of history is that evil is good.
history stills
Our best history is still poetry.
history biographies great-history
There is properly no history, only biography.
history historical way
History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living. Lawrence Durrell
history narrative misery
This is my history; like all other histories, a narrative of misery. Samuel Johnson
history liberty drivers
How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?
history dinner restaurants
If I could have dinner with anyone who lived in history, it would depend on the restaurant. Rodney Dangerfield
history ifs melodrama
History is not melodrama, even if it usually reads like that. Robert Penn Warren
history world damnation
The lack of a sense of history is the damnation of the modern world.
history teach
History teaches us hope. Robert E. Lee
history causes needs
History furnishes to politics all the arguments that it needs, for the chosen cause. Romain Rolland
history monarchs incapable
Charles was constitutionally incapable of being a constitutional monarch. Simon Schama
history thrones england
The irony about Charles II is not that he came to the throne because England needed a successor to Charles I, but because England needed a successor to Oliver Cromwell.
history rumor distillation
History: A distillation of rumor. Thomas Carlyle
history inarticulate
All history . . . is an inarticulate Bible.
history products
What is all knowledge except recorded experience, and a product of history?
history imagination inquiring
Stern accuracy in inquiring, bold imagination in describing, these are the cogs on which history soars or flutters and wobbles.
history rumours distillation
History is the distillation of rumour.
history
History is the new poetry.
history kind newspapers
Histories are a kind of distilled newspapers.
history creeds poetry-is
It is part of my creed that the only poetry is history, could we tell it right.
history judgement soldier
Armed Soldier, terrible as Death, relentless as Doom; doing God's judgement on the Enemies of God. It is a phenomenon not of joyful nature; no, but of awful, to be looked at with pious terror and awe.
history black female
My world did not shrink because I was a black female writer. It just got bigger. Toni Morrison
history soul age
One age is like another for the soul. Robert Frost
history today tomorrow
Never, ever rest on your laurels. Today's laurels are tomorrow's compost. Tom Peters
history crowds fiction
The truth of history crowds out the truth of fiction - as if one were obliged to choose between them ... Susan Sontag
history psychology matter
A large part of the popularity and persuasiveness of psychology comes from its being a sublimated spiritualism: a secular, ostensibly scientific way of affirming the primacy of spirit over matter.