Ancestors Quote by Robert Irwin Download Open image ““History is nothing but the lies we tell about our ancestors”” — Robert Irwin ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Ancestors History History lies Lies Lies Tell Tell Ancestors
“History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there. . . . History is always written… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
“History loved to lie, through simple distortion or complete fabrication. Lies were the cosmetics of history, and when history could not be beautiful, it… — Sean DeLauder Copy Share Image
“True history is almost invisible. It flows like an underground spring. It takes place in the shadows, and in silence.. And only a chosen… — Félix J. Palma Copy Share Image
“The simple truth? History was never simply history. If it was anything it was another collar—another means to control.” — Chris Galford Copy Share Image
“History is made not of facts set in stone but of the stories we tell.” — Michelle Richmond Copy Share Image
“What is the purpose of history? It seeds only hate. All the history books should be burnt, so that we are no longer the… — Claire North Copy Share Image
Palms are like cockroaches. They were here long before us, and they'll be here long after us. They're the only things standing after a… — Robert Irwin Copy Share Image
“One day he became conscious that something was following him, a lazy white dog, a bitch with heavy dugs, padded behind him, whining continuously.… — Robert Irwin Copy Share Image
We actually form the world at every instant, although we're not cognitively aware of that but - and there are people would argue with… — Robert Irwin Copy Share Image
If you wanted to watch me work, it would be totally boring. It would look like a Warhol film where nothing happens. I sit… — Robert Irwin Copy Share Image
Whenever you look at light, basically it's just air. It has no tactileness to it. It's totally without density. — Robert Irwin Copy Share Image
If I hold up a red square for 30 seconds and take it away, you will see a perfect green square. It's how the… — Robert Irwin Copy Share Image
Every time you do something, make something, it's final in a way, but it's not. It immediately raises a great set of questions. And… — Robert Irwin Copy Share Image
The thing about a plant is, let's say it will have 50 or 100 little points of bright red. If you look at the… — Robert Irwin Copy Share Image
When you walk into a room, you assess it instantaneously, habitually, before you're even aware of it. I mean, you make sure there's not… — Robert Irwin Copy Share Image
It's my observation that gardeners and gardening for a very long time have had to take a back seat. Architects are very famous; they've… — Robert Irwin Copy Share Image
Every situation has qualities. Essentially, we quantify them and that's the practical side of our lives, so the involvement with perception and in acquiring… — Robert Irwin Copy Share Image
There's no way to really mock up or simulate what I'm doing until I'm there. An exhibition for me is not a statement but… — Robert Irwin Copy Share Image
The desire to fly is an idea handed down to us by our ancestors who... looked enviously on the birds soaring freely through space...… — Wilbur Wright Copy Share Image
We pay for the mistakes of our ancestors, and it seems only fair that they should leave us the money to pay with. — Don Marquis Copy Share Image
Going where no man has gone before is more difficult than it sounds. Our cousins and ancestors were no less curious than we are,… — N.D. Wilson Copy Share Image
It has been said that a man of genius should select his ancestors with great care - and yet there does not seem to… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Most of us do more than subsist. From the vantage point of our ancestors, we live lives of almost unimaginable ease. Here again, we… — Gary Hamel Copy Share Image
Two hundred years ago, before the advent of capitalism, a man's social status was fixed from the beginning to the end of his life;… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
My ancestors came over from Germany about the time of the Civil War and one of them lost a leg and went back to… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
If you look deeply into the palm of your hand, you will see your parents and all generations of your ancestors. All of them… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
...I write to keep in contact with our ancestors and to spread truth to people. — Sonia Sanchez Copy Share Image
“Each of us is the product of history. Our lives today are evidence that our ancestors survived unbelievable odds stretching back to prehistory. The… — Laura Wheldon Copy Share Image
