Quotes About History

So why am I an A's fan? Because, from 1901 to 1954, they were the Philadelphia Athletics. Philadelphia is my home town. The A's were the team I loved as a kid, and no gap of space or time can fray that bond.

My family has a history in philanthropy, and I want to continue that legacy.

I've got a better background than anyone else who married into the royal family since the war, excepting Prince Philip.

The Philippines, it might be said, is a country in search of an identity.

There was a time in the mid-'50s when the Philippines was in the same league as Japan economically and academics-wise.

Trinidad may seem complex, but to anyone who knows it, it is a simple, colonial, philistine society.

Philly is old-school.

In 2001, I moved from Philly to Atlanta, where I lived for six years. I had never lived anywhere but Philly, and you can imagine the culture shock; the Civil War seeps into daily life and conversation down South in a way it never does up North.

Another important historical factor is the fact that this already very simple religion was further simplified and purified by the early philosophers of ancient China. Our first great philosopher was a founder of naturalism; and our second great philosopher was an agnostic.

The philosophers of the Middle Ages demonstrated both that the Earth did not exist and also that it was flat. Today they are still arguing about whether the world exists, but they no longer dispute about whether it is flat.

While confronting the problems of the present, I often find myself thinking back to the world of books as it was experienced by the Founding Fathers and the philosophers of the Enlightenment.

The sense of historical continuity, and a feeling for philosophical rectitude cannot, however, be compromised.

Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.

History is the great dust-heap... a pageant and not a philosophy.

Without philosophy, history is always for me dead and dumb.

Italy is full of historical buildings. And Europe holds a great history of philosophy from Greece until today. I read all those books and see these buildings, and I think of where I stand when I design my architecture.

The war was the end of an era, in art as well. And we were trying to create a new philosophy.

The thing about members of your family is that if you met them for the first time at a party, you might not bother to take their phone number, and yet something binds you.

I'm obsessed with old rotary phones.

'Lucky Us' ends with a description of a photograph of the novel's fictional family. I could never get enough of my own family photo albums.

A good daguerreotype was as perfect a kind of photograph as was ever made.

I have all my contact sheets filed, from the first photograph I took to the present day.

When you start out, you're not really aware. I didn't have a sense of photographic history.

The reason I call myself a documentary photographer is the idea of how photographs contain and participate in history.