Own History Quotes

63 Own History quotes by 57 unique authors

It's extraordinary how self-obsessed human beings are. The things that people always go on about is, 'tell us about us', 'tell us about the first… — David Attenborough
People from different parts of the world can respond to the same story if it says something to them about their own history and their… — Chinua Achebe
I sent American troops to Iraq to make its people free, not to make them American. Iraqis will write their own history and find their… — George W. Bush
We have our own history, our own language, our own culture. But our destiny is also tied up with the destinies of other people -… — Mangosuthu Buthelezi
I want to make it clear that the black race did not come to the United States culturally empty-handed. The role and importance of ethnic… — John Henrik Clarke
You're not being paid by how hard you work, but by what you accomplish. If you can't hack it, pack it. Our challenge today is… — William A. Connelly
We have gone a long way toward civilization and religious tolerance, and we have a good example in this country. Here the many Protestant denominations,… — Harry S. Truman
A criminal trial is like a cultural in-flight test in which society projects its own history, fears, impatience, insolence, clemency, insecurities, dreams and nightmares upon… — Ron Franscell
I feel like there are so many people I admire for so many reasons that I can't look at one person's life and say, "I… — Blake Lively
Men make their own history — Karl Marx
A race of people is like and individual man; until it uses its own talent, takes pride in its own history, expresses its own culture,… — Malcolm X
Men develop ideas and systems of explanation by absorbing past knowledge and critiquing and superseding it. Women, ignorant of their own history [do] not know… — Gerda Lerner
In the entire history of the universe, let alone in your own history, there has never been another day just like today, and there will… — Frederick Buechner
But the thought leaders on talk radio and Fox do more than shape opinion. Backed by their own wing of the book-publishing industry and supported… — David Frum
I don't compete with other discus throwers. I compete with my own history. — Al Oerter
The biblical God lets us make our own history, and goes with us on the more or less unheard-of adventures we concoct. — Jacques Ellul
Each soil has had its own history. Like a river, a mountain, a forest, or any natural thing, its present condition is due to the… — Charles Kellogg
Societies create their own history and tend to wipe out lowly beginnings, either by forgetting them or inventing totally fictitious heroic rescues. — Isaac
The aim of every authentic artist is not to conform to the history of art, but to release himself from it in order to replace… — Harold Rosenberg
The war against Vietnam is only the ghastliest manifestation of what I'd call imperial provincialism, which afflicts America's whole culture-aware only of its own history,… — Stephen Vizinczey

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