History Quotes · Page 569

“I faded out. I was for a moment my father tapping on his cigarette, the way he holds it, crushing it flat.…

— Hannah Lillith Assadi

In some ways, what 'Hamilton' has done for Broadway shows - what it has done for the interpretation of history and how…

— Valentin Chmerkovskiy

Faith lived in the incognito is one which is located outside the criticism coming from society , from politics , from history…

— Jacques Ellul

A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

But the participants [in war] never forgot the details of their experience, and like the Wandering Jew, they were condemned to remain…

— James Lee Burke

The thing that I've always loved about vintage is that whenever you get a piece, you know that it contains so many…

— Dorit Kemsley

“Paul also never quotes from Jesus's purported sermons and speeches, parables and prayers, nor does he mention Jesus's supernatural birth or any…

— D.M. Murdock

The Rising was mainly a piece of streat theatre designed by poets for dramatic effect. For better or worse, it became part…

— Maurice Hayes

“To discover the history of women and art is in part to account for the way art history is written. To expose…

— Norma Broude

The task of the educator is to make the child's spirit pass again where its forefathers have gone, moving rapidly through certain…

— Henri Poincare

Millar Burrows of Yale observes: 'Archeology has in many cases refuted the views of modern critics. It has shown in a number…

— Millar Burrows

“History is not made by great dreams, but by the petty wants of all respectable, moderately thievish and selfish people, that is,…

— Karel Čapek

Fashion was the only law, pleasure the only pursuit, and the splendour of dress and furniture was the only distinction of the…

— Edward Gibbon

In fact, you could make the argument that a historian like Shlomo Aronson does in passing in one of his books, that…

— Nicholson Baker

“Why should sinners prosper and sins suffer? It is ignorant; don't think that the poorer you are the quicker you will see…

— Patience Johnson

My job is to form the people, the story, the sentences. Every reader will bring their own life and their own history…

— Amy Bloom

The student of biology is often struck with the feeling that historians, when dealing with the rise and fall of nations, do…

— Ronald Ross

I am a curious creature and put my finger in as many cakes as I can: history, film, technology, etc. I'm also…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

One of the painfully sobering realizations that come from reading history is the utter incompetence that is possible among leaders of whole…

— Thomas Sowell

“History repeats itself. Someone says this. History throws its shadow over beginning, over the desktop, over the sock drawer with its socks,…

— Richard Siken

“I know I grew up in the time when a young man in a baggy suit and slicked-down hair stood spraddle-legged in…

— Rick Bragg

As long as there are history books, Neil Armstrong will be included in them, remembered for taking humankind’s first small step on…

— Charles Bolden

At an incredibly divisive point in pop history, Donna Summer managed to create an undeniable across-the-board experience of mass pleasure - after…

— Rob Sheffield

“I adore these words, worship them actually, and yet I do not buy that part about ‘the last time in history.’ Because…

— Sarah Vowell

In the present, the way benevolence is expressed is in conceptualizing the Native as a historical relic; US people have to be…

— Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

The manly pride of the Romans, content with substantial power, had left to the vanity of the East the forms and ceremonies…

— Edward Gibbon

“The ‘healthy’ sign, for Barthes, is one which draws attention to its own arbitrariness—which does not try to palm itself off as…

— Terry Eagleton

There was, it is said, a criminal in Italy who was suffered to make his choice between Guicciardini and the galleys. He…

— Thomas B. Macaulay

“There has been no major revolution in modern history without intellectuals; conversely there has been no major counterrevolutionary movement without intellectuals. Intellectuals…

— Edward W. Said

When I was taking art history I was always angry that we would skip certain chapters because "it wasn't important." Like, "Let's…

— Ali Banisadr

“when you educate yourself about clitoredectomies, infibulation, forced prostitution, rape as a war tactic, patriarchal religions, women painters, filmmakers, poets, writers, activists,…

— Inga Muscio

Religion is part of the human make-up. It's also part of our cultural and intellectual history. Religion was our first attempt at…

— Christopher Hitchens

Prowling the meanings of a word, prowling the history of a person, no use expecting a flood of light. Human words have…

— Anne Carson

“The tragedy and opportunity of this moment in history are exactly the same: the natural and technical resources needed to pull us…

— Rick Hanson

London imbued me with an appreciation of the beauty and value of history in general. As it has evolved and grown, the…

— Hilary Farr

In my view, immigrants today aren't any different from immigrants who have come to America throughout our nation's history. They bring new…

— Dick Armey

I always find it kind of more interesting when people ask questions like, "What were you like as a kid?" Or just…

— Andy Richter

There is reason to be scared. Look at what has happened with fundamentalism - this is a reaction against modernity. It happens…

— Paul Saffo

The history of the past, a hundred years from now, won't be the history of the past that we learned in school…

— William Gibson

I accept the resurrection of Easter Sunday not as an invention of the community of disciples, but as a historical event. If…

— Pinchas Lapide