Quotes About Meaning

Making a history was not what I wanted to do. I wanted to construct something more powerful than that.

What was the point of living through history if you didn't record it?

The history of interpretation [of the Bible] is fascinating; but that is something else.

I'm not as much a history person as an art person, but I mean, you can read history through art.

Well named, Quotology contains everything you always wanted to know about quotations, quoters, quotees, quotation books, 'quoox' (quotations out of context), and their fascinating history.

History is not an endless succession of meaningless circles but a directed movement toward a great event.

History is in a manner a sacred thing, so far as it contains truth; for where truth is, the supreme Father of it may also be said to be, at least, inasmuch as concerns truth.

Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.

To articulate what is past does not mean to recognize "how it really was." It means to take control of a memory, as it flashes in a moment of danger.

History is not another name for the past as many people imply. It is the name for stories about the past.

I try to create homes, not houses.

Everywhere your eye travels in your home, it should land on something that resonates with you.

Is it possible that existence is our exile and nothingness our home?

To Adam Paradise was home. To the good among his descendants home is paradise.

Living intensely each present day means letting Christ dwell within you. His words are so clear: Today I would like to enter your home.

'Home Alone' was a movie, not an alibi.

I make home movies-therefore I live. I live - therefore I make home movies.

Freedom would be meaningless without security in the home and in the streets.

I have lost all sense of home, having moved about so much. It means to me now--only that place where the books are kept.

At home I serve the kind of food I know the story behind.

So we reach into the raging chaos, and we cling to it, and we tell ourselves it has meaning, and that the world is good, and we are not evil, and we will all go home in the end.

For more and more of us, home has less to do with a piece of soil than a piece of soul.

Movement is a fantastic privilege but it ultimately only has meaning if you have a home to go back to.

I have always found it a testament to the importance of painting that the first thing many people do when their home is on fire is to grab their paintings and then run out.