Histories Quotes
153 Histories quotes by 143 unique authors
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Bear in Mind...that all Histories from the Rock at Plymouth, and Jamestown to the present time, have been made by white men, and a man…
— Sam Houston
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Cinema is consistently making a claim to particular memories, histories, ways of life, identities, and values that always presuppose some notion of difference, community, and…
— Henry Giroux
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I know of two tragic histories in the world - that of Ireland, and that of Macedonia. Both of them have been deprived and tormented
— Roger Casement
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Human beings have always told their histories and truths through parable and fable. We are inveterate storytellers.
— Beeban Kidron
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Places are fragmentary and inward-turning histories, pasts that others are not allowed to read, accumulated times that can be unfolded but like stories held in…
— Michel de Certeau
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In language that is searing and lyrical, evocative and precise, this exceptional book thinks with the zombies, specters, felons, slaves, dogs, cadavers, and other entities…
— Donna J. Haraway
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Beyond these models of reconciliation, a theology of mysticism provides some hope for common ground between Christianity and Islam. Both religions have within their histories…
— Tony Campolo
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Free nations with different histories, economies and a vast amount of stubborn pride will never achieve complete agreement, even when they desire the same objectives.
— Arthur Hays Sulzberger
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The reflections and histories of men and women throughout the world are contained in books.... America's greatness is not only recorded in books, but it…
— Terence Cooke
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William Shakespeare was the most remarkable storyteller that the world has ever known. Homer told of adventure and men at war, Sophocles and Tolstoy told…
— Marchette Chute
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Make careful choice of the books which you read: let the holy scriptures ever have the pre-eminence, and, next to them, those solid, lively, heavenly…
— Richard Baxter
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Everything characters say or do is a clue to their personalities, their histories, and the forces that motivate them.
— William G. Tapply
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I dreamed of Crusades, voyages of discovery that nobody had heard of, republics without histories, religious wars stamped out, revolutions in morals, movements of races…
— Arthur Rimbaud
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We have bodies. We have personalities. We have histories, stories and experiences. But we are not those things - we are Spirit.
— Sonia Choquette
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If the new Universal History were also read, it would give a connected idea of human affairs, so far as it goes, which should be…
— Benjamin Franklin
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It is not insignificant that my first apprehension of the love of God was granted in an experience with my father. Nor is it generally…
— Walter Wangerin
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Our age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories and criticism.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Teaching is a sacred art. This is why the noblest druid is not the one who conjures fires and smoke but the one who brings…
— Kate Horsley
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Because imaginary time behaves like another direction in space, histories in imaginary time can be closed surfaces, like the surface of the Earth, with no…
— Stephen Hawking
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Histories never conclude; they just pause their prose. Their stories are, if they are truthful, untidy affairs, resistant to windings-up and sortings-out. They beat raggedly…
— Simon Schama
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The histories of our two peoples, Palestinian and South African, correspond in such painful and poignant ways, that I intensely feel myself being at home…
— Nelson Mandela
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There ought not be two histories, one of political and moral action and one of political and moral theorizing, because there were not two pasts,…
— Alasdair MacIntyre
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Friendship is one of the greatest gifts a human being can receive. It is a bond beyond common goals, common interests, or common histories. It…
— Henri Nouwen
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What we really are is a community of mind, knitted together by codes and symbols, intuitions, aspirations, histories, hopes - the invisible world of the…
— Terence McKenna
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Ritual is important to us as human beings. It ties us to our traditions and our histories.
— Miller Williams
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