Histories Quotes

153 Histories quotes by 143 unique authors

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
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
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
Human beings have always told their histories and truths through parable and fable. We are inveterate storytellers. — Beeban Kidron
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Everything characters say or do is a clue to their personalities, their histories, and the forces that motivate them. — William G. Tapply
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
We have bodies. We have personalities. We have histories, stories and experiences. But we are not those things - we are Spirit. — Sonia Choquette
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
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
Our age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories and criticism. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Ritual is important to us as human beings. It ties us to our traditions and our histories. — Miller Williams

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