- Nov 07, 2020
History Quotes
Personal history and the record we leave.
Quotes about "history" here move between the personal and the public — early museum visits that shaped a scientific mindset, and a family history full of preachers and former priests. For enduring, timeless sayings, see Long quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020
History was always the subject that I loved the most, and I felt it gave me the deepest sense of our humanity and who we are and where we're going.
- High School
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- Nov 07, 2020
My younger sister retired a few years ago after a 30-year career teaching history and social studies at an inner-city high school.
- Lucky
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been lucky. I've had this history of having an appeal to more than one type of audience.
- Artist
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- Nov 07, 2020
I set my sights upon becoming the kind of artist who would make a contribution to art history.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am trying to make art that relates to the deepest and most mythic concerns of human kind and I believe that, at this moment of history, feminism is humanism.
- Perfect
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- Nov 07, 2020
Junk stands and antique markets are the perfect place to pick up clues about the history of a country, region or town.
- Fight
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe that each fight teaches you something, and a new history is written in each fight.
- Peace
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- Nov 07, 2020
Throughout its history, the international Olympic Committee has struggled to spread its ideal of fraternity, friendship, peace and universal understanding.
- Violence
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- Nov 07, 2020
It seems disingenuous to ask a writer why she, or he, is writing about a violent subject when the world and history are filled with violence.
- Red
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- Nov 07, 2020
My ancestors include Monahwee, who was one of the leaders in the Red Stick War, which was the largest Indian uprising in history, and Osceola, who refused to sign a treaty with the United States.
- Competition
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- Nov 07, 2020
The time is coming when the pressure of population on the means of subsistence will be felt here as it is now felt in Europe and Asia. Then will the world enter upon a new stage of its history - the final competition of races, for which the Anglo-Saxon is being schooled.
- Comparatively
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- Nov 07, 2020
Heretofore there has always been in the history of the world a comparatively unoccupied land westward, into which the crowded countries of the East have poured their surplus populations.
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- Nov 07, 2020