History Quote by John Knowles Download Open image “Everyone has a moment in history which belongs particularly to him.” — John Knowles ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare History Moments Time
Everyone has a moment in history which belongs particularly to him. It is the moment when his emotions achieve their most powerful sway over… — John Knowles Copy Share Image
He only deserves to be remembered by posterity who treasures up and preserves the history of his ancestors. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Life is all about moments. No one in history has ever been able to hold on to one. — Prince Ea Copy Share Image
There are moments where history is made... This is one of those moments. — David M. Louie Copy Share Image
“Because history became his (Keenan's) genuine passion, he tended to see the world in terms of deep historical forces that, in his mind, formed… — David Halberstam Copy Share Image
Every person seems to acknowledge his greatness. He blends together the profound politician with the scholar. — William Pierce Copy Share Image
He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times. — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
Everyone believes in his youth that the world really began with him, and that all merely exists for his sake. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
No matter what he does, every person on earth plays a central role in the history of the world. And normally he doesn't know… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
There are special, strange gifted people in the world and they have to be treated with understanding — John Knowles Copy Share Image
It seemed clear that wars were not made by generations and their special stupidities, but that wars were made instead by something ignorant in… — John Knowles Copy Share Image
“I saw on the pad not an operator's number from my home town, but one which seemed to interrupt the beating of my heart.” — John Knowles Copy Share Image
“Sixteen is the key and crucial and natural age for a human being to be, and people of all other ages are ranged in… — John Knowles Copy Share Image
Stranded in this mill town railroad yard while the whole world was converging elsewhere, we seemed to be nothing but children playing among heroic… — John Knowles Copy Share Image
My father was in the coal business in West Virginia. Both dad and mother were, however, originally from Massachusetts; New England, to them, meant… — John Knowles Copy Share Image
It was hard to remember in the heavy and sensual clarity of these mornings; I forgot whom I hated and who hated me. I… — John Knowles 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
