History Book Quotes

24 History Book quotes by 23 unique authors

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
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
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
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
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
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
Every drop of human blood contains a history book written in the language of our genes. — Spencer Wells
When a history book contains no lies it is always tedious. — Anatole France
The greatest history book ever written is the one hidden in our DNA. — Spencer Wells
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
It was like a page torn from a history book, from some historical novel about the captivity of babylon or Spanish Inquisition. — Elie Wiesel
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
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: