Quotes About History

Designers shouldn't design for museums any more than mummies should die for them.

Architecture is not all about the design of the building and nothing else, it is also about the cultural setting and the ambience, the whole affair.

We cannot do better than to accept the standards of other times, and to adapt them to our uses.

I'm always conscious of the context, the history, the specific environment of anything that I design and what it is going to be operating within.

There is more fine abstract design in Navajo rugs than in all these modern paintings.

The world was made before English language, and seemingly upon a different design.

I think design does evolve in a meaningful sense. I think if you look at design as a part of the continuum of communication, since even before Guttenberg.

... our objects, bibelots, whatnots, and knickknacks-say the most about who we are. They are as honest as a diary.

Every age has the Stonehenge it deserves -- or desires.

I once believed that I possessed creative talent, but I have given up this idea; a woman must not desire to compose — there has never yet been one able to do it. Should I expect to be the one?

Free nations with different histories, economies and a vast amount of stubborn pride will never achieve complete agreement, even when they desire the same objectives.

The abolition of domestic slavery is the great object of desire in those colonies, where it was unhappily introduced in their infant state.

Goering's ideas betray a consistent desire to create something essentially new, implying all the historic virtues, but unlike [anything] of the past.

In human history, the desire for revenge and the desire for loot have often been closely associated.

It was Chicago with its World's Fair which vivified the national desire for civic beauty.

To foretell the destiny of a nation, it is necessary to open a book that tells of her past.

We need Hawaii just as much and a good deal more than we did California. It is manifest destiny.

The destiny of the world is determined less by the battles that are lost and won than by the stories it loves and believes in.

There are not two histories, one profane and one sacred, 'juxtaposed' or 'closely linked.' Rather there is only one human destiny.

As a result of manifest destiny, we gutted our resources.

Throughout the nation's history, the national destiny of the United States has been understood in antimilitaristic, libertarian terms.

Destiny is something not be to desired and not to be avoided. A mystery not contrary to reason, for it implies that the world, and the course of human history, have meaning.

And by that destiny to perform an act Whereof what's past is prologue, what to come In yours and my discharge.

Today, I don't believe in destiny. But I do believe in history...There's nothing more powerful than history.