History Book Quotes
24 History Book quotes by 23 unique authors
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There's a difference between knowing what's on the page in a history book and actually feeling that page have curves and valleys.
— Garth Brooks
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In a typical history book, black Americans are mentioned in the context of slavery or civil rights. There's so much more to the story.
— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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I think that every so-called history book and film biography should be prefaced by the statement that what follows is the author's rendition of events…
— Barbara Kruger
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You have to be there not for the fame and glory and recognition and being a page in a history book, but you have to…
— Alan Shepard
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The Bible is not a book like any other. It makes a claim that God spoke and speaks through its message. It argues that as…
— Darrell Bock
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The past is a curious thing. It's with you all the time. I suppose an hour never passes without your thinking of things that happened…
— George Orwell
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Every drop of human blood contains a history book written in the language of our genes.
— Spencer Wells
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When a history book contains no lies it is always tedious.
— Anatole France
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The greatest history book ever written is the one hidden in our DNA.
— Spencer Wells
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At times there seems to be a million ideas worth painting. However, there are days when it's a challenge to pull any idea together. On…
— James Dean
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Herman Cain was unaware that China is a nuclear power. And I said to myself, 'Hey, Herman, how about making an unwanted advance on a…
— David Letterman
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When I was a teenager, I read the bible cover-to-cover, and I found the Old Testament, it's a pretty bloody history book.
— Billy Bob Thornton
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No matter how vital experience might be while you lived it, no sooner was it ended and dead than it became as lifeless as the…
— Ellen Glasgow
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I started work on my first French history book in 1969; on 'Socialism in Provence' in 1974; and on the essays in Marxism and the…
— Tony Judt
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I really like to look like a history book. I can look 1940s, I can look 1970s hippie-chic, or sometimes I'll pull that '80s Brooklyn…
— Katy Perry
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When 'Midnight's Children' came out, people in the West tended to respond to the fantasy elements in the novel, to praise it in those terms.…
— Salman Rushdie
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And when I look at a history book and think of the imaginative effort it has taken to squeeze this oozing world between two boards…
— Jeanette Winterson
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It was like a page torn from a history book, from some historical novel about the captivity of babylon or Spanish Inquisition.
— Elie Wiesel
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But sometimes you can't figure everything out because you can't ever really understand other people. You can't understand why they do what they do. You…
— William Landay
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My daughter will be reading about Pat Buchanan in a history book someday, and I am hanging out fist-bumping with him and joking with him.
— Willie Geist
Who Wrote These History Book Quotes
23 authors contributed a total of 24 History Book Quotes as follows: