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History Quotes by Terry Pratchett
- History has a habit of changing the people who think they are changing it
- If you are going to write, say, fantasy - stop reading fantasy. You've already read too much. Read other things; read westerns, read history, read…
- Now that their long war was over, they could get on with the proper concern of all civilised nations, which is to prepare for the…
- The truth isn't easily pinned to a page. In the bathtub of history the truth is harder to hold than the soap and much more…
- The merest accident of microgeography had meant that the first man to hear the voice of Om, and who gave Om his view of humans,…
- Most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused not by people being fundamentally good or fundamentally evil, but by people being fundamentally…
- There was a man and he had eight sons. Apart from that, he was nothing more than a comma on the page of History. It's…
- I read anything that’s going to be interesting. But you don’t know what it is until you’ve read it. Somewhere in a book on the…
- People don't alter history any more than birds alter the sky, they just make brief patterns in it.
- It was, according to the history books, the fastest coronation since Bubric the Saxon crowned himself with a very pointy crown on a hill during…
- Oh, my dear Vimes, history changes all the time. It is constantly being re-examined and re-evaluated, otherwise how would we be able to keep historians…
- History isn't like that. History unravels gently, like an old sweater. It has been patched and darned many times, reknitted to suit different people, shoved…
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