Quotes About Archives

I have thousands of tapes, and photos and fliers, letters, posters, artwork - basically everything that ever happened, I kept. I'm not a hoarder, though. I'm sort of a librarian.

The Disney archives, it's 84 years of history. The one way in which I feel I'm a kindred spirit with Walt Disney is that neither one of us ever throws anything away. He never threw anything away.

Our archives are treasure troves - a testament to many lives lived and the complexity of the way we move forward. They contain clues to the real concerns of day-to-day life that bring the past alive.

Without archives many stories of real people would be lost, and along with those stories, vital clues that allow us to reflect and interpret our lives today.

Nothing is long ago in an archive, my dear. In the records we treat the dead as same as the living. that's the whole point of keeping papers. It doesn't matter if it's a hundred years or only a few weeks. It's all filed away, fresh as the day it went under the covers.

Archive material is a fabulous starting point - individual documents are like signposted roads, heading to a variety of intriguing possibilities.

I've found myself moved by letters and diaries in archives as well as trashy, summer blockbusters. It's possible to make a connection with any kind of writing - as long as the writing is good.

Archive material is vital to the writer of historical fiction.

Though I loved the wired world, the new-wave librarians, the avatars and activists, I turned into a dinosaur in that library. I couldn't help it; I was an old-fashioned writer who loved the ancient books summoned via pneumatic tubes, the archives, the quiet. I had found something rare there: an inexhaustible wonder.

This book was written on an Archives III microcomputer with WordStar software and sent from Colombo to New York on one five-inch diskette. Last-minute corrections were transmitted through the Padukka Earth Station and the Indian Ocean Intelsat V.

Our archives are treasure troves - a testament to many lives lived and the complexity of the way we move forward. They contain clues to the real concerns of day-to-day life that bring the past alive.

That the mortality was accepted as God's punishment may explain in part the vacuum of comment that followed the Black Death. An investigator has noticed that in the archives of Périgord references to the war are innumerable, to the plague few. Froissart mentions the great death but once, Chaucer gives it barely a glance. Divine anger so great that it contemplated the extermination of man did not bear close examination.

Archival and published history does not always record personal relationships of historical figures, so characters must be invented to allow the subject to reveal their interior realm through intimate interaction.

Archives are very old things—historical records like diaries and letters or even the old Stampede posters you saw at the museum," said Aunt Judy.

In the years that I worked in museums, first as a summer student and eventually as a curator, one of the primary lessons I learned was this: History is shaped by the people who seek to preserve it. We, of the present, decide what to keep, what to put on display, what to put into storage, and what to discard.

If you are working 50 hours a week in a factory, you don't have time to read 10 newspapers a day and go back to declassified government archives. But such people may have far-reaching insights into the way the world works.

Everyone keeps asking you for pictures, and after a while you get tired of that. I always say, They are in the archives.

The museum may lose things," I said, "but it never throws them away.

Oh, who shall know the might Of the words he utter'd there? The fate of nations there was turned By the fervor of his prayer. "But wouldst thou know his name Who wandered there alone? Go, read enroll'd in Heaven's archives, The prayer of Washington.

Naš zadatak odgovara prije svega jednoj historijskoj zada?i. Nijedna tema nije tabu za histori?are kao što ni zamke ni presije svake vrste - politi?ke, ideološke, li?ne - ne smije sprije?iti da se slijedi put saznavanja, ekshumacije i interpretacije ?injenica, naro?ito ako su bile dovoljno sakrivane u tajni arhiva i savjesti. ....To je moralna obaveza odavanja po?asti mrtvima, naro?ito kada su nevine i anonimne žrtve Moloha koji ima apsolutnu vlast...

desconectó dichos archivos primero, ocultó su origen después y, por último, juzgó negativamente a las culturas originarias

The account of the Nakba (catastrophe) given by the refugees has been confirmed by documents preserved in Israeli archives. There

I consider myself a writer who happens to write about history, rather than a historian. I was an English major in college. What I've learned about history is in the field, so to speak. Going into the archives and working with it directly.

Television and film are our libraries now. Our history books.