- Fighting
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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
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
Anyone who knows the history of the Pete Best Band or the Combo, we were on the verge of breaking in in America. In the mid-'60s, I had great songwriters; we wrote some great stuff.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
At first I wanted to go to university, but I really didn't dare to. I was too self-conscious, being a working-class kid. It was really difficult. I was going to study history, but the professor asked me some questions I didn't understand, and I didn't dare to ask what they meant. I left university and went to work in the Post.
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't tell everyone my life history because if everyone knows your inside-leg measurement, how can you surprise them?
- Bible
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe the fast track to atheism is reading the Bible. I've read it three times all the way through. It's a big part of our culture, a big part of our history. I don't just read things I agree with.
- Nov 07, 2020
Orlando is my history.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
Britain has had some very strong and successful queens throughout history, but, since the Act of Succession in 1701, they have only been eligible to take the throne if they had no brothers. If there was a boy in the family, no matter where he came in the order of birth, he leapfrogged his sisters to take the title.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
All great political families have myths: stories they tell themselves about how history happened.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of people have it - that fantasy of being lord or lady of the manor, either in the present or at some time in history.
- Memory
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's a preoccupation with memory and the operation of memory and a rather rapacious interest in history.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have long been interested in landscape history, and when younger and more robust I used to do much tramping of the English landscape in search of ancient field systems, drove roads, indications of prehistoric settlement.
- Present
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- Nov 07, 2020