History Quote by Zadie Smith Download Open image ““My mind does not easily accept stately historical processions.”” — Zadie Smith ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare History Minds Order Psychology Thinking
“Events become feelings, feelings become events. Head and heart are contrary historians.” — Jerry Spinelli Copy Share Image
“Have you decided yet what historical moment you would have most like to have witnessed with your own eyes and ears?” — Padgett Powell Copy Share Image
“History is funny that way. Things that seem far off and impossible have a way of turning out to be bearer and more possible… — Hillary Rodham Clinton Copy Share Image
“Don’t carry the world around or your history around like a burden. In fact, don’t carry it around at all. One step at a… — Art Hochberg Copy Share Image
“We may struggle one way but we are all being dragged another by our heritage, by history.” — Alex Christofi Copy Share Image
“We cannot help but be interested in the stories of people that history pushes aside so thoughtlessly.” — Min Jin Lee Copy Share Image
“We want to transcend our history without actually confronting it. We cannot address the place we find ourselves because we will not acknowledge the… — Timothy B. Tyson Copy Share Image
“History, too, has a penchant for giving birth to itself over and over again, and those whom it appoints agents of change and progress… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
“The more we try to explain sensibily these phenomena of history, the more senseless and incomphrensible they become for us.” — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“It’s sometimes a blessing that great historical figures don’t live to see what people do to their visions.” — Jack L. Chalker Copy Share Image
“The greatest of all historical shams is believing you can not do something you can.” — Erik Petersen - Love and Rage Copy Share Image
“One couldn’t be selective when remembering the past. Ignore the turmoil, chaos and pain – and the truly great memories would not shine with… — Karen Fowler Copy Share Image
- You look fine. - Right. I look fine. Except I don't, said Zora, tugging sadly at her man's nightshirt. This was why Kiki… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
“Pretty girls lie at the centre of straight culture, dyke culture, fag culture. They sell everything, they buy everything, they ruin great men and… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
“I have known many true connoisseurs, with excellent tastes that range across the humanities and the culinary arts--and they never fail to have a… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
I cannot believe homosexuality is that much fun. Heterosexuality certainly is not. — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
“Either everything is sacred or nothing is. And if he starts burning other people’s things, then he loses something sacred also. Everyone gets what’s… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
My feeling is, having lived in different classes, that people want equality of opportunity... that's the thing that makes me despair: the idea that… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
I don't keep any copies of my books in the house - they go to my mum's flat. I don't like them around. — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
But it makes an immigrant laugh to hear the fears of the nationalist, scared of infection, penetration, miscegenation, when this is small fry, peanuts,… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
Oh, I know that. You know me, baby, I cannot be broken. Takes a giant to snap me in half. — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
“In short, it was precisely the kind of friendship and Englishman makes on holiday, that he can make only on holiday. A friendship that… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
I suppose I often think of my writing as quite impersonal. But it turned out, when my father died, writing was exactly what I… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
“Some of us are happy with our African hair, thank you very much. I don't want some poor Indian girl's hair. And I wish… — Zadie Smith 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
