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History Quotes by Robert Penn Warren
- We are the prisoners of history. Or are we?
- A look at the past reminds us of how great is the distance, and how short, over which we have come. The past makes us…
- To be an American is not...a matter of blood; it is a matter of an idea--and history is the image of that idea.
- History is all explained by geography.
- More and more Emerson recedes grandly into history, as the future he predicted becomes a past.
- The lack of a sense of history is the damnation of the modern world.
- The past is always a rebuke to the present.
- [A]nd soon now we shall go out of the house and go into the convulsion of the world, out of history into history and the…
- And what we students of history always learn is that the human being is a very complicated contraption and that they are not good or…
- It all began, as I have said, when the Boss, sitting in the black Cadillac which sped through the night, said to me (to Me…
- Historical sense and poetic sense should not, in the end, be contradictory, for if poetry is the little myth we make, history is the big…
- History is not melodrama, even if it usually reads like that.
- You live through...that little piece of time that is yours, but that piece of time is not only your own life, it is the summing-up…
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