History Quote by David Maraniss Download Open image “I want to write for history, not for the moment.” — David Maraniss ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare History Moments Time Want Writing
It's hard to know exactly how people develop the characters they do. There could be people from humble beginnings that turn into jerks. Some… — David Maraniss Copy Share Image
And then the industry itself was so cocky about what they were doing that they weren't seeing what was coming on the horizon with… — David Maraniss Copy Share Image
You also had in Detroit that summer, an early variation of Ferguson. A black prostitute was shot in the back by police. And all… — David Maraniss Copy Share Image
Originally, John Kennedy was going to come speak, and then Lyndon Johnson. Because it was October of '62, neither made it because of the… — David Maraniss Copy Share Image
So, I mean, there's still vast swaths of the city that are suffering from a lack of jobs and poor housing and poor public… — David Maraniss Copy Share Image
I want my books to last, to stand the test of time, and to do that I focus on the forces that shape the… — David Maraniss Copy Share Image
It was a time of uncommon possibility and freedom, when Detroit created wondrous and lasting things. But life can be luminescent when it is… — David Maraniss Copy Share Image
And that John F. Kennedy uttered the first variation of "ask not what your country can do for you" in Detroit on Labor Day… — David Maraniss Copy Share Image
Well, there is something beautiful about ruins. I mean, in one sense it's not that different from going to Rome and looking at the… — David Maraniss Copy Share Image
It was so crucial to the Civil Rights Movement that on June 23, 1963, Martin Luther King came to town, walked down Woodward Avenue… — David Maraniss Copy Share Image
Well, there were several things. One was that the industry itself built in Detroit was abandoning the city - taking factories elsewhere, the corporate… — David Maraniss Copy Share Image
It is?classic Bill Clinton, sincere and deceptive at the same time, requiring a careful reading between the lines. — David Maraniss Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
It is said that history turns on small hinges. A human career, too, results from an accumulating series of decisions about large and small… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In the entire history of the universe, let alone in your own history, there has never been another day just like today, and there… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
History has often showed us the strength of the forces that are unleashed by the yearning for freedom. It moved people to overcome their… — Angela Merkel Copy Share Image
We find few historians who have been diligent enough in their search for truth; it is their common method to take on trust what… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
What is history after all? History is facts which become lies in the end. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
Things live and die, and then someone processes them into edible portions. This is a complete telling of the story, 'Food.' The basic plot… — David Fahrenthold Copy Share Image
History is a certain way, but you just change the point of view a little bit, and you discover a whole new side of… — Allison Schroeder Copy Share Image
We're at a point in history were we have to become a part of the neighborhood of inhabited planets, like a neighborhood of a… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
