- 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
- Justice
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was nominated at first by a group called Justice Democrats. They were trying to essentially field non-corporate candidates in the 2018 midterm election. They were looking for people with a history of community service, and my name had come across their desk, and they called.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
When one nation is at war with another nation, the political machine does everything it can to vilify the people of the other nation, so it makes it easier to kill them. Which is understandable and it's happened this way throughout history.
- Library
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- Nov 07, 2020
I go into my library and all history unrolls before me.
- Love Is
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- Nov 07, 2020
The truth is, I love history and studied it in college, with a particular focus on early American history. My love is so deep, in fact, I went to school at The College of William & Mary in Colonial Williamsburg.
- Battles
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was genuinely lucky to have the professors I did, many of whom took a very humanist approach in teaching history that went beyond memorizing dates and battles and all of that - basically, looking at the life of individuals throughout history, aided by fascinating primary sources.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think history is just so cyclical.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
It might be the history major in me, but I look to the past when I try to construct my fictional futures.
- Remember
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- Nov 07, 2020
Oh, I don't keep a journal. How you remember an incident is dictated by your emotional state at the time. How you receive the information that is coming in is definitely based on your history and who you are.
- Mold
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- Nov 07, 2020
The history of Germany is a mold for the history of Belarus.
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fate and history have a similar feeling. They are weird mirrors to each other.
- Peace
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- Nov 07, 2020
'War and Peace' holds a strange place in literary history, participating in the crowning of realism as a substantial and serious literary mode in America, even as the novel also contributed to the argument that historical fiction could be by nature dangerous, illegitimate, and inaccurate.
- Last
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- Nov 07, 2020
'The Last Kingdom''s got its roots in history, and it's a lot grittier. It doesn't have the 'Game of Thrones' gloss.
- Nov 07, 2020
People who are creating history don't realize they're creating it at the time it's happening.
- Feudalism
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- Nov 07, 2020