History Quote by Helen Simpson

“The tectonic layers of our lives rest so tightly one on top of the other that we always come up against earlier events in…

— Bernhard Schlink

“The geological layers of our lives rest so tightly one on top of the other that we always come up against earlier events in…

— Bernard Schlink

The tectonic layers of our lives rest so tightly one on top of the other that we always come up against earlier events in…

— Bernhard Schlink

“My life is never stable. It’ as if I balance on a series of tectonic plates like the ones under the Pacific Ring of…

— Mary Jennifer Payne

“History is subject to geology.”

— Ariel Durant

“But the past continues to gather around like floodwater. A too easy formulation, but what past do I have in mind? The nation’s, I…

— Teju Cole

“The journey of life is the unification of fragmentation. Fragments are units of power that are out of control. We make agreements to come…

— Caroline Myss

Though the theories of plate tectonics now provide us with a modus operandi, they still seem to me to be a periodic phenomenon. Nothing…

— D. V. Ager

“upon layers of life, always something more, new, deeper.”

— Lauren Oliver

“The Earth is 4.54 billion years old. Its crust has repeatedly broken up, moved around, melted, and reformed.”

— Bill Nye

“All civilisation has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.”

— Havelock Ellis

The volumes, the surfaces, the lines-in one word, the structures that build a tectonic construction-do not represent the whole picture: there is also the…

— Emile Argand