« All Who We Are Quotes · Ken Burns's Page
Who We Are Quotes by Ken Burns
- I think we continually need to understand how important an event the war was - how defining, how central to who we are. Everything that…
- I have made a film about jazz that tries to look through jazz to see what it tells us about who we are as a…
- I subscribe to William Faulkner's' view that history is not just about what we were before but who we are now.
- History isn't really about the past - settling old scores. It's about defining the present and who we are.
More Who We Are Quotes
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
- One of the things that has to be faced is the process of waiting to change the system, how much we have… — Ella Baker
- Our society is the product of several great religious and philosophical traditions. The ideas of the Greeks and Romans, Christianity, Judaism, humanism… — Jan Peter Balkenende
- Every time the government grows we lose more of who we are. — Glenn Beck
- There is an immense, painful longing for a broader, more flexible, fuller, more coherent, more comprehensive account of what we human beings… — Saul Bellow
- I remember a time when all my fans were crying and sad and going through hell. Now, we're trying to uplift each… — Mary J. Blige
- Things present themselves to you, and it's how you choose to deal with them that reveals who you are. We all say… — Cate Blanchett
- The World Trade Center site will forever hold a special place in our city, in our hearts. But we would be untrue… — Michael Bloomberg
- The world at large does not judge us by who we are and what we know; it judges us by what we… — Joyce Brothers
- The family farm is the foundation for who we are as a Commonwealth. And for over a century, the family farm in… — Jim Bunning
- Great tragedy has come to us, and we are meeting it with the best that is in our country, with courage and… — George W. Bush
- We need to understand that we are not each others' enemies in this country. And it is only the political class that… — Benjamin Carson