- Questions
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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
- Girl
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- Nov 07, 2020
I used to be very interested in the history of women's rights in this country and in other countries. I tried to learn as much as I could about it, and more than anything, I would be called gay. It was phenomenal. But if a boy has something to say, he is appreciated; he's even popular. If a girl says something, it's instantly a threat.
- Need
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- Nov 07, 2020
We need to feminise history because we are 50 per cent of the population, and our story is just as interesting.
- Perfect
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd gone to Oxford to do graduate studies in the history of the slave trade, but I came across Georgiana's letters, gave up that thesis, and wrote one on her instead. When I learned that Georgiana's great-nephews supported opposite sides in the American Civil War, I knew this would be the perfect sequel.
- Declaring
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- Nov 07, 2020
Southern politicians who have tried to rise above the passionate rhetoric surrounding the Civil War have frequently found themselves dragged back into the mire. Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell, a Republican, was forced to apologise when his proclamation declaring April Confederate History Month failed to make any reference to slavery.
- Queen
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- Nov 07, 2020
The most famous line in gastronomic history, 'Let them eat cake', turns out to have been an eighteenth-century cliche. According to Antonia Fraser, the French accused every foreign queen of saying it, beginning in 1670 with the wife of Louis XIV, Marie Theresa.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our long history of exploiting women's bodies and suppressing their voices had a direct impact on my case and other women's lives.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
After spending 460 days as a hostage, I did emerge a fundamentally changed person. But I think, like everyone does as they grow older and probably wiser, I can look back at my earlier life - my history, my mistakes, the joy I felt as a young woman traveling the world - with some objectivity and even some humor.
- Keep
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm going to keep on making history.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
We both are the only women that beat Ronda Rousey. There's a history involved. Holly and I always were the underdog in our fights, so there's a history.
- Nov 07, 2020
The moment the world falls apart, you start forgetting history and wrongdoings in the past.
- Kitchen
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- Nov 07, 2020
The kitchen's a laboratory, and everything that happens there has to do with science. It's biology, chemistry, physics. Yes, there's history. Yes, there's artistry. Yes, to all of that. But what happened there, what actually happens to the food is all science.
- Nov 07, 2020
I work with history because I come from a country that has a tremendous thirst for reality.
- Language
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- Nov 07, 2020
History is like Santa Claus: a language construction. We have some registers about the existence of Santa and history - the presents under the tree, the archives - but none have really seen them.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020