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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
- Florence
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- Nov 07, 2020
By the time Florence Nightingale got her neurotic hands on Cleopatra, she had been mangled beyond recognition by both history and literature.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
For thousands of years, men have written history, so it seems to me that most of what we've read is from the male point of view.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
Secretly, I'm a real big nerd. I'd rather stay home and play Scrabble than go to a Hollywood party, any day of the week. And I love reading about history and watching the Discovery Channel.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Veteran's History Project, a nationwide volunteer effort to collect oral histories from America's war veterans, provides an avenue to do just that. Now in its fifth year, the Project has collected more than 40,000 individual stories.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think there's anywhere else better than the Giants in terms of organization and history.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
Home is where I am. Sadly, I don't need a history to be able to exist somewhere.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
Home is where I am. Sadly, I don't need a history to be able to exist somewhere. When I was still very young, my father told me: 'Look, we will always have to move, again and again.' I thought that was marvelous! That's how I got used to thinking that life meant starting from scratch, over and over again.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
With rock n' roll and touring comes a lot of good and bad decisions. These guys who are 21, they're out there, and they're not indestructible. The history of rock n' roll tells us, and so a lot of these guys are on this road to destruction.
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
In every sort of politics, in history, it has its own problems, its leaders, its own opposition.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
We must remember that one determined person can make a significant difference, and that a small group of determined people can change the course of history.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is important for all of us to appreciate where we come from and how that history has really shaped us in ways that we might not understand.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
History shows us that the songs - the myth, the experience and the emotion - live longer the less you explain.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
My name, Solange, means 'Angel of the sun,' and I'm completely enamored of my African history. The culture is so expressive.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020