- Football
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- 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
- Experiencing
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- Nov 07, 2020
For the whole history of cinema, we've been experiencing movies and television through a two-dimensional, letterboxed window. But once you can start programming entertainment for all the different senses, it becomes a wholly different medium.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
The history of the past interests us only in so far as it illuminates the history of the present.
- Death
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd always been interested in maritime history, especially the great liners. I'd have done a book about the Titanic if it hadn't already been done to death by James Cameron and Celine Dion.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
That's what I love about history - nuance. I don't believe in unalloyed heroes. Everyone's got warts, and everyone's got a surprise side.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
Yes, William E. Dodd was the - became the - America's first ambassador to Nazi Germany. Prior to that, he was a professor of history at the University of Chicago - mild-mannered guy.
- Definitive
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's not my intent to write definitive history. 'Dead Wake' isn't a definitive history of the sinking of the Lusitania. It's my account.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm going to teach high school. History and economics. I may even coach wrestling. Hey, Indiana Jones taught school, too.
- Exploited
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- Nov 07, 2020
Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
- Dash
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- Nov 07, 2020
The stones themselves are thick with history, and those cats that dash through the alleyways must surely be the ghosts of the famous dead in feline disguise.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People always think that history proceeds in a straight line. It doesn't. Social attitudes don't change in a straight line. There's always a backlash against progressive ideas.
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
To write history is so difficult that most historians are forced to make concessions to the technique of legende.
- Leave
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- Nov 07, 2020
We cannot leave history entirely to nonclinical observers and to professional historians.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Turnberry is truly one of the most spectacular properties on earth. The views, the setting, and grandeur of the hotel - there's just nothing else like it. We've respected the architectural history of the hotel first and foremost, but most of all, we've respected the tradition of golf at Turnberry.
- Beautiful
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not a culture snob. So while, of course, I think the Mozart 'Requiem' or, say, Beethoven's 'Ninth' are some of the greatest works of art in the history of humankind, that's not to say the Beatles or Queen or Simon and Garfunkel aren't brilliant, beautiful, important works of art that should be sung without a sense of irony.
- First Time
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- Nov 07, 2020