Histories Quote by Catherynne M. Valente

Instead, in the absence of respect for human rights, science and its offspring technology have been used in this century as brutal instruments for…

— John Charles Polanyi

Histories never conclude; they just pause their prose. Their stories are, if they are truthful, untidy affairs, resistant to windings-up and sortings-out. They beat…

— Simon Schama

People want chat histories. They're a permanent testimony of a relationship.

— Brian Acton

New York is ultimately not the synthesis but merely the sum of its unfathomable subjectivities, its personal histories, its uncategorisable figures.

— Jonathan Dee

unloved women have no biographies-- they have histories

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“histories. Anishinaabe (Ojibwe) historian Jean O’Brien names this practice of writing Indians out of existence “firsting and lasting.” All over the continent, local histories,…

— Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

Histories used often to be stories: the fashion now is to leave out the story. Our histories are stall-fed: the facts are absorbed by…

— Augustus William Hare

“All true histories contain instruction;”

— Emily Brontë

Recounting their histories, people often sound like interested bystanders to their own lives.

— Hugh Mackay

If there is an abiding theme in 'The Pursuit of Happiness,' it is the idea that you come into the world already shaped by…

— Douglas Kennedy

Life histories tell you just about everything you need to know about an animal.

— Jack Horner

Political corruption is endemic all over this country, in some places worse than others, right? On crime, you have all the major American cities…

— Mitch Landrieu