Ashamed Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson Download Open image “I am ashamed to see what a shallow village tale our so-called history is.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Ashamed History Shallow Storytelling Tales Village
Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man. — Jean Genet Copy Share Image
It makes me so happy to see that there's still so much innocence left in villages. — Satish Kaushik Copy Share Image
“It is ashamed that history isolates things that are common to a large populace, but families don’t disperse generational history to prevent their descendants… — Stephen and Tiffany Domena Copy Share Image
“In many ways this book is about how we fail to reckon with the past, not so much as a historical reconstruction or morality tale, but as evidence of a recurring problem in which we all share responsibility. What are the blind spots and taboos that persist in our retelling of events, in individual accounts, memoirs, and national histories? Why… — Wendy Lower Copy Share
“In the great cities we see so little of the world, we drift into our minority. In the little towns and villages there are… — W.B. Yeats Copy Share Image
The village I come from is the most ruthless, lawless land one can encounter. — Nawazuddin Siddiqui Copy Share Image
“Societies everywhere have a tendency to construct a genealogically useful past for themselves in which desirable versions of their history are favored and unwanted… — Tudor Parfitt Copy Share Image
History's like a story in a way: it depends on who's telling it. — Dorothy Salisbury Davis Copy Share Image
Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood? — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
If history is deprived of the Truth, we are left with nothing but an idle, unprofitable tale. — Polybius 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
If we will not interfere with our thought, but will act entirely, or see how the thing stands in God, we know the particular… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A man cannot speak but he judges himself. With his will or against his will he draws his portrait to the eye of his… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Consideration is the soil in which wisdom may be expected to grow, and strength be given to every up-springing plant of duty. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Another success is the post-office, with its educating energy augmented by cheapness and guarded by a certain religious sentimentin mankind; so that the power… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A child reminds us that playtime is an essential part of our daily routine. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
No man can be criticised but by a greater than he. Do not, then, read the reviews. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Coal lay in ledges under the ground since the Flood, until a laborer with pick and windlass brings it to the surface. We may… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If my child had prejudice in his head, I'd be ashamed. I would see it as my failure as a parent. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I know what you're thinking... and you oughtta be ashamed of yourself. — Robert Preston Copy Share Image
You never meet the writer when you're making a TV movie in America - they're too ashamed to show up and see how their… — Joe Don Baker Copy Share Image
If, with all the time at my disposal, with all the wealth of the resources of this vast universe, to do with as I… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“with her own life. And I was ashamed.” Humiliated. Broken. Miserable. If Wilcher had stood by Jaymee, if her father hadn’t berated her, if… — Stacy Green Copy Share Image
You should avoid hedging, at least that's what I think. You should be ashamed to die until you've made some contribution to mankind. — Vernon Johns Copy Share Image
There was no mistake in us making abortion legal and available on demand. That was what we call progress. Just like it was no… — Mark Ruffalo Copy Share Image
“When all are undressed, one is somehow not ashamed, but when one's the only one undressed and everybody is looking, it's degrading,' he kept… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
There are a great many colored people who are ashamed of the cake-walk, but I think they ought to be proud of it. — James Weldon Johnson Copy Share Image
I love him who is ashamed when the dice fall in his favour, and who then asketh: "Am I a dishonest player?" - for… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Whoever is ashamed of me and my words, the Son of Man will be ashamed of them when he comes in his glory and… — Zondervan Publishing Copy Share Image
