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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
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
STG and the Ramshorn Theatre are a vital part of Glasgow's rich cultural history. To abandon them now is to abandon not only our past, but our future.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I finished 'True History of the Kelly Gang,' I realised that Faulkner had not lost his power over me.
- Reason
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- Nov 07, 2020
A true history of human events would show that a far larger proportion of our acts are the result of sudden impulse and accident than of that reason of which we so much boast.
- House
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- Nov 07, 2020
Kennedy invited us into the White House-the first time in the history of the White House picketers had been invited inside. This made front page headlines.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
The fact is, working stiffs with few opportunities and scant education are generally too busy getting by to engage in revolutionary projects to remake society. And history, in fact, shows us that terrorism is generally a bourgeois endeavor.
- Each Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can't walk alone. Many have given the illusion, but none have really walked alone. Man is not made that way. Each man is bedded in his people, their history, their culture, and their values.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
It sometimes seems to me that the whole course of English history was one of accident, confusion, chance and unintended consequences - there's no real pattern.
- Reading
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can remember picking up weighty tomes on the history of science and the history of philosophy and reading those when I was small.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wanted to be a poet when I was 20; I had no interest in fiction or biography and precious little interest in history, but those three elements in my life have become the most important.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The 16th-century theatre witnessed the particularly English manifestation of 'the history play.' There can be no doubt that Shakespeare's presentations of 'Henry V' and 'Richard III' have been incalculably more influential than any more sober historical study.
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It may seem unfashionable to say so, but historians should seize the imagination as well as the intellect. History is, in a sense, a story, a narrative of adventure and of vision, of character and of incident. It is also a portrait of the great general drama of the human spirit.
- Chronological
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- Nov 07, 2020
'London' is a gallery of sensation of impressions. It is a history of London in a thematic rather than a chronological sense with chapters of the history of smells, the history of silence, and the history of light. I have described the book as a labyrinth, and in that sense in complements my description of London itself.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't look at myself as a historical icon, but the reality of it is, yeah, I am playing for history now.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
History shows one important fact: the results of competitive special elections from Hawaii to New York are poor indicators of broader trends or future general election outcomes.
- Nov 07, 2020