History Quotes · Page 622

Even in the obscure vast history of a planet the time it takes to make a forest counts. It takes a while.…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“Toraf is one of the best Trackers in Syrena history. His ability to sense others of his kind is acute, but more…

— Anna Banks

“Waktu mendengar gamelan dan menghirup bau bunga bercampur kemenyan, pikiran saya pasti melayang ke masa lampau. Orang-orang memungut bunga di permadani yang…

— Sulastin Sutrisno

“The historical problems with Luke are even more pronounced. For one thing, we have relatively good records for the reign of Caesar…

— Bart D. Ehrman

Blacks have experienced a history of victimization in America, beginning obviously in slavery and then another 100 years of segregation. I grew…

— Shelby Steele

Wardruna is a combination of old and new. I use historical instruments and new and electronic instruments and tools. I use drones…

— Einar Selvik

I think sometimes I guess you see records, say you want to get there and use that as motivation. In a way,…

— Michael Phelps

I know that some of the great painters and some of the great artists didn't even start to 'peak', as you say,…

— Joe Perry

I do not know how history will judge me, but let me say that I've spent a lot of time and energy…

— Ratan Tata

There can be few fields of human endeavor in which history counts for so little as in the world of finance.Past experience,…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

When you study history and look at every civilization that has grown up and died off, they all leave one remnant: a…

— Anonymous

I have to expend an awful lot of energy actively undoing the impact of my name. Understandably, people assume that I have…

— Said Sayrafiezadeh

The particular feature of Berlin - well, all you need to do is look at the map: the geographical position of the…

— Markus Wolf

“But where will this mania for entertainment end? What will people do when they get tired of television? When they get tired…

— Michael Crichton

My ethics, my sense of morality, my work ethic, my sense of compassion for suffering humanity, all of that comes directly out…

— Sam Hamill

“To accept one's past—one's history—is not the same thing as drowning it it; it is learning how to use it. An invented…

— Anonymous

In early historical civilization, lunar symbols wove together three major metaphorical concepts. The first is the idea of fertility. The moon controls…

— Layne Redmond

“There was a period when the capitalist system increased the well-being of significant numbers of people as a by-product of seeking out…

— Walter Rodney

Life has obliged him to remember so much useful knowledge that he has lost not only his history, but his whole original…

— Albert J. Nock

This is not a country that has had a tremendous sympathy for poor people, so I think that the notion that somehow…

— Faye Wattleton

Coca-Cola remains emblematic of the best and worst of America and Western civilization. The history of Coca-Cola is the often funny story…

— Mark Pendergrast

I suppose that history will remember my term in office as the years when the Cold War began to overshadow our lives.…

— Harry S. Truman

We are living in an historic moment. We are each called to take part in a great transformation. Our survival as a…

— Desmond Tutu

“Commanders and historians are the people who discuss wars; I was in the infantry, and most of the time I did not…

— Robertson Davies

“A man may possess a profound knowledge of history and mathematics; he may be an authority in psychology, biology, or astronomy; he…

— David O. McKay

Darius has on jeans with a button up flannel shirt, that is not buttoned up! Dallas is in boxers! Cute black and…

— Jade

Food for her is not food, it is terror, dignity, gratitude, vengeance, joyfulness, humiliation, religion, history, and, of course, love. As if…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

Political economy is the science of free society. Its theory and its history alike establish this position. Its fundamental maxims, Laissez-faire and…

— George Fitzhugh

“Did you at least get the maintenance history on the bike?” “Uh…” Alec scratched the back of his neck. “It was kind…

— River Jaymes

School is pointless Writing: We know that. Math: 1+1= 2 Beyonce taught us that English: We speak it cause we learned it…

— Anonymous

The Bible is not a history book. It is the manual for life. When you study the Word of God, you develop…

— Creflo Dollar

“Multiculturalism became the cutting edge of post-civil-rights-movement US history revisionism. For this scheme to work—and affirm US historical progress—Indigenous nations and communities…

— Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

We are at a major epoch in human history, which is that we don't need sex to recreate the race. You can…

— David Cronenberg

In the West the past is like a dead animal. It is a carcass picked at by the flies that call themselves…

— Miriam Makeba

Who was I, really? I was the sole occupant of my mother's totalitarian state, my own personal history rewritten to fit the…

— Janet Fitch

There is something essential and necessary about the immediacy and democracy of poetry. If you look at the history of literature, poetry…

— Jonathan W. Galassi

If Julian had flattered himself that his personal connexion with the capital of the East would be productive of mutual satisfaction to…

— Edward Gibbon

“Butterflies have always had wings; people have always had legs. While history is marked by the hybridity of human societies & the…

— Harsha Walia

The more that you travel the more you get the sense of the word as a larger place and the more you…

— Cassandra Clare

“It was one of those words that tended to brook no further questioning, and Harmigan had applied his very best evocation of…

— Jeremy Duns