Historical Events Quotes

23 quotes by 21 authors

'Easter' is a movable event, calculated by the relative positions of sun and moon, an impossible way of fixing year by year the anniversary of… — Annie Besant
I accept the resurrection of Easter Sunday not as an invention of the community of disciples, but as a historical event. If the resurrection of… — Pinchas Lapide
I think a lot of my interest in history now isn't so much in places and names and texts and public figures, but more in… — Sufjan Stevens
Bertrand Russell said, 'Electricity is not a thing like St. Paul's Cathedral; it is a way in which things behave.' And it's not 'they' who… — Mary Jo Bang
Any single historical event is too complex to be adequately known by anyone. It transcends all the intellectual capacities of men. Our practice is to… — B.F. Skinner
When the venture has been made of dealing with historical events and characters, it always seems fair towards the reader to avow what liberties have… — Charlotte Mary Yonge
I believe that historians and analysts of historical events need the authority of facts supplied by living witnesses to the events, which they make their… — Ibrahim Babangida
I accept the resurrection of Easter Sunday not as an invention of the community of disciples, but as a historical event. — Pinchas Lapide
Natalie Bakopoulos has that rare gift, the ability to imagine a traumatic historical event in the form of individual lives and ordinary details. The Green… — Elizabeth Kostova
What we have to do now is to make the public at large aware that what we're looking at is not a historical event but… — Ernst Zundel
In 'Labor Day Hurricane, 1935,' Douglas Trevor vividly recreates a historical event. While that is the only story in A THIN TEAR IN THE FABRIC… — Stuart Dybek
He believed that all people existed behind varying layers of armor which, like the archaeological layers of earth itself, reflected the historical events and turbulence… — Gay Talese
When I was at Stratford, the very first thing that I was commissioned to work on was trying to make a musical out of the… — Trevor Nunn
We have gotten away from this double aspect of either putting the character back into historical events or of making a historical event of his… — Raymond Queneau
The Renaissance is studded by the names of the artists and architects, with their creations recorded as great historical events. — Arthur Erickson
What is the cause of historical events? Power. What is power? Power is the sum total of wills transferred to one person. On what condition… — Leo Tolstoy
I call my mom from the car. I tell her that Neutral Milk Hotel is playing at the Hideout and she says, "Who? What? You're… — John Green
I sometimes subscribe to the belief that all historical events occur simultaneously, like a dream in the mind of God. Perhaps it is only man… — James Lee Burke
In those fifty, the Old Man made me take religion seriously. I'd never been religious, but he told us that religion is important whether or… — John Green
Each generation of adolescents has at least two historical events that color its responses to whatever happens next. — Mary Doria Russell

Who Wrote These Historical Events Quotes

21 authors contributed a total of 23 Historical Events Quotes as follows: