- 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
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
With so many forty- and fifty something mums and dads in Converse stalking the streets, I can see why there's a slew of books about the menopause and middle age, the most recent addition being David Bainbridge's plucky, glass-half-full meditation or, as he calls it, 'natural history.'
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm the fourth generation to be in show business. It's pretty neat; it's nice to have that family history.
- Beirut
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- Nov 07, 2020
A phoenix, Beirut seems to always pull itself out its ashes, reinvents itself, has been conquered numerous times in its 7,000-year history, yet it survives by both becoming whatever its conquerors wished it to be and retaining its idiosyncratic persona.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing.
- His
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- Nov 07, 2020
Cheney refers to his vice presidency... as one of the most consequential vice presidencies in American history. And it clearly was.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was the highest-paid street performer, probably, in the history of Chicago. I was making like $800 a day.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother wasn't rich, and I never seen my father. I was a street performer. I've been shot. And now I'm known around the world, and I've touched a lot of people with my music. That's one of the great testimonies that's gonna go down in history.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.
- Justice
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- Nov 07, 2020
I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something else - I can give my heart and my devotion to these old islands and to all the peoples of our brotherhood of nations.
- Impossible
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- Nov 07, 2020
Madam President, speaking here in Dublin Castle it is impossible to ignore the weight of history, as it was yesterday when you and I laid wreaths at the Garden of Remembrance.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but the living strength and majesty of the Commonwealth and Empire; of societies old and new; of lands and races different in history and origins but all, by God's Will, united in spirit and in aim.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020