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History Quotes by Elizabeth Kostova
- If there is any good in life, in history, in my own past, I invoke it now. I invoke it with all the passion with…
- I think it's important to recognise that 'The Da Vinci Code' opened up a vast new audience for a general readership interested in historical detective…
- As a historian, I have learned that, in fact, not everyone who reaches back into history can survive it. And it is not only reaching…
- The thing that most haunted me that day, however...was the fact that these things had - apparently - actually occurred...For all his attention to my…
- I've always been interested in foreign relations. It's my belief that study of history should be our preparation for understanding the present rather than an…
- It's a shame for women's history to be all about men--first boys, then other boys, then men men men. It reminds me of the way…
- ...History it seemed could be something entirely different a splash of blood whose agony didn't fade overnight or over centuries.
- As you know, human history is full of evil deeds, and maybe we ought to think of them with tears, not fascination.
- For the first time, I had been struck by the excitement of the traveler who looks history in her subtle face.
More History Quotes
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle
- Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals,… — Aristotle
- All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song. — Louis Armstrong
- This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind. — Neil Armstrong
- All in all, for someone who was immersed in, fascinated by, and dedicated to flight, I was disappointed by the wrinkle in… — Neil Armstrong
- In the history of Wikileaks, nobody has claimed that the material being put out is not authentic. — Julian Assange
- We released 400,000 classified documents, the most extraordinary history of a war to ever have been released in our civilization. Those documents… — Julian Assange
- Natural history is not about producing fables. — David Attenborough
- Cameramen are among the most extraordinarily able and competent people I know. They have to have an insight into natural history that… — David Attenborough
- In the old days... it was a basic, cardinal fact that producers didn't have opinions. When I was producing natural history programmes,… — David Attenborough