“All that we call sacred history attests that the birth of a poet is the principal event in chronology.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
History is philosophy teaching by example and also by warning. — Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke Copy Share Image
The first sparrow of spring! The year beginning with younger hope than ever! — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The rocks. They carry the chronology of water. All things simultaneously living and dead in your hands. — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
I am strongly of the opinion that chronology is very important. The great arc of time is what children are wired for. — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
'Wolf Hall' attempts to duplicate not the historian's chronology but the way memory works: in leaps, loops, flashes. — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
My chronology is terrible. [Work with William Shawn] must have some ago. It was after he was fired by Newhouse. After New… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
“On the whole I try to keep Modesty and Willie in timeless settings, which is why I avoid all the latest slang… — Peter O'Donnell Copy Share Image
I am lost if I attempt to take count of chronology. When I think over the past, I am like a person… — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
The first sparrow of spring! The year beginning with younger hope than ever!... What at such a time are histories, chronologies, traditions,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Sometimes indirect style and varying chronology is great, but quite often I've seen it be just something that gets in the way.… — Alice Mattison Copy Share Image
“Have you noticed how just trying to impose any sort of chronology on events makes it seem as though a lot of… — James Hamilton-Paterson Copy Share Image
In the early ages of the world, according to the scripture chronology, there were no kings; the consequence of which was there… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
No apparent, perceived, or claimed evidence in any field, including history and chronology, can be valid if it contradicts the Scriptural record, — Ken Ham Copy Share Image
Particularly, the actors, to have analyzed the script in great detail from the point of view of their specific character. So that… — Christopher Nolan Copy Share Image
My good lady,’ interrupted Clent, ‘are you telling me that he is not the Luck? That you have in some way obfuscated… — Frances Hardinge Copy Share Image
The way history is currently taught in schools, jumping from Hitler to the Henrys, is like a nightmare vision of Star Wars,… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
Adolescence is a time of active deconstruction, construction, reconstruction--a period in which past, present, and future are rewoven and strung together on… — Louise J. Kaplan Copy Share Image
I have insane curiosity as to what happened in all these events. I will never know. I'm not a researcher. I don't… — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
By definition it uses and plays and delights in time. It delights in the interlacing of chronologies and the consequences of that… — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image
“By freeze-framing the image of our lifestyle, by stopping our mental clock at times and letting time flow, 'psychological' time can replace… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
The only way we can determine the true age of the earth is for God to tell us what it is. And… — Henry M. Morris Copy Share Image
“We have been cut off, the past has been ended and the family has broken up and the present is adrift in… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
Broader and deeper we must write our annals, from an ethical reformation, from an influx of the ever new, ever sanative conscience,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“The question is, shall it or shall it not be linear history. I've always thought a kaleidoscopic view might be an interesting… — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
Of course the chronology of the books is a bit back- to - front, and books usually come out before movies. But… — Helen Fielding Copy Share Image
The idiot, the Indian, the child and unschooled farmer's boy stand nearer to the light by which nature is to be read,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Chronology, so the saying goes, is the last refuge of the feeble-minded and the only resort for historians. — Joseph J. Ellis Copy Share Image
History is philosophy teaching by example, and also warning; its two eyes are geography and chronology. — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
Chronology can be dangerous. You can get so linear that it becomes robotic for the reader. — Lawrence Wright Copy Share Image
A scientist is no more a collector and classifier of facts than a historian is a man who complies and classifies a… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
“In our memories the stories of our lives defy chronology, resist transcription: past ambushes present, and future hurries into history.” — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
There will be a day on which we will realize that past and future are nothing else than what we call present. — Jean-Paul Malfatti Copy Share Image
From the building of the temple of Solomon, which is also treated as a leading epoch in chronology, a new period in… — Julius Wellhausen Copy Share Image
Like all great fantasists, he has taught me about life, life in eternity rather than chronology, life in that time in which… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
There is sometimes a peculiar confusion in the West that equates progress to whatever is recent or whatever is new, and it… — Barbara Amiel Copy Share Image
“What we call 'time' isn't chronological but spatial; what we call 'death' is merely a transition between different kinds of matter.” — STEPHANE AUDEGUY Copy Share Image
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![“We have been cut off, the past has been ended and the family has broken up and the present is adrift in its wheelchair. ... That is no gap between the generations, that is a gulf. The elements have changed, there are whole new orders of magnitude and kind. [...] My grandparents had to live their…” quote by Wallace Stegner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/845/wallace-stegner-1352_breakage_we-have-been-cut-off-the-past-has-been-e_1335439.jpg)
![“Of course the chronology of the books is a bit back- to - front, and books usually come out before movies. But happily, these [Bridget Jones's] are fictional comedy diaries - not a history of the Battle of Waterloo.” quote by Helen Fielding](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/b8f/helen-fielding-2564_battle_of-course-the-chronology-of-the-books-is_204283.jpg)
