- Just
- |
- 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
- Good
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Who thought it would be a good idea to undermine art in the school curriculum? Who thought studying the history of our visual culture was a waste of time? Who thought that only private schools should have that privilege? Was it someone who said we don't need experts?
- Art History
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
If it is good enough for Prince William and Kate, why is studying art history not good enough for the masses?
- Devoured
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
As a working-class girl, receiving free school dinners, I studied art history. Having never had the chance to visit art galleries, I devoured the knowledge, and it has served me well as a practising artist.
- Growth
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
This is our history - from the Transcontinental Railroad to the Hoover Dam, to the dredging of our ports and building of our most historic bridges - our American ancestors prioritized growth and investment in our nation's infrastructure.
- Opportunity
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
My generation of Americans, the scions of daring dreamers, the children of the fearlessly faithful and the offspring of many of history's most audacious actors - we, together, drink deeply from wells of freedom, liberty and opportunity that we did not dig.
- Independence
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
In America we have a Declaration of Independence, but our history, our advancements, our global strength all point to an American declaration of interdependence.
- Great
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
As I review the great history of our nation, community organizers have been at the center of so many of our great social movements.
- Long
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Larry Summers, I think, he had a long history of arrogance and relative ignorance about poor people's culture and working people's culture and so forth.
- New
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
We Americans entered a new phase in our history - the era of integration - in 1954.
- Good
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I'm never doing a new album. I'll probably do nothing but singles. I'm as good as anybody out there lyrically and conceptually and can go toe to toe with the best of them throughout history. But I don't know how much longer I'll be doing it. It's not really fun anymore.
- Man
- |
- Nov 07, 2020