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History Quotes by Kurt Vonnegut
- History! Read it and weep!
- If I were a younger man, I would write a history of human stupidity; and I would climb to the top of Mount McCabe and…
- I believe that reading and writing are the most nourishing forms of meditation anyone has so far found. By reading the writings of the most…
- I saw a huge steam roller, It blotted out the sun. The people all lay down, lay down; They did not try to run. My…
- the late twentieth century will go down in history, i'm sure, as an era of pharmaceutical buffoonery.
- But I have to say this in defense of humankind: In no matter what era in history, including the Garden of Eden, everybody just got…
- I think it can be tremendously refreshing if a creator of literature has something on his mind other than the history of literature so far.…
- Aside from battles, the history of nations seemed to consist of nothing but powerless old poops like myself, heavily medicated and vaguely beloved in the…
- Since there is no one else to praise me, I will praise myself -- will say that I have never tampered with a single tooth…
- History is merely a list of surprises. It can only prepare us to be surprised yet again.
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