Quotes About History

The birds and I share a natural history. It is a matter of rootedness, of living inside a place for so long that the mind and imagination fuse.

Two thousand years ago, five thousand, they didn't have a word for imagination, and faith was the best they could come up with for a pretty solemn bunch of followers.

Stern accuracy in inquiring, bold imagination in describing, these are the cogs on which history soars or flutters and wobbles.

The past is not the present: pretending it is corrupts art and thus both rots the mind and shrivels the imagination and conscience.

As for me, the grounds of my hope have always been that history is wilder than our imagination of it and that the unexpected shows up far more regularly than we ever dream.

It is seldom that the imagination is disappointed in the 'ancestral piles' of England.

For every person who can imagine a possibility there are tens of thousands who are stuck in the greased grooves of history.

It's a total failure of the Western imagination that the only enemy they can see is Adolph Hitler.

All of us, writers and non-writers alike, have incredible well-springs of personal experience and history. And we also have imagination - which I think is a kind of human miracle.

The best historical stories capture the modern imagination because they are, in many senses, still current - part of a continuum.

India Conquered and dominated China culturally for 20 centuries without ever having to send a single soldier across her border.

July 4th ought to be commemorated as the day of deliverance by solemn acts of devotion.

I'm going to steal the Declaration of Independence.

If the American Revolution had produced nothing but the Declaration of Independence, it would have been worthwhile.

The 1916 uprising was kind of the most important rebellion in Ireland's fight for independence that had been going on for 700 years. So it's a very important moment in history for us.

The general principles on which the fathers achieved independence were the general principles of Christianity

Happy white peoples independence day the slaves weren't free but I'm sure they enjoyed fireworks.

A reading of the Declaration of Independence on the steps of a building is widely covered. The events that started the American Revolution were the meetings in homes, pubs, on street corners.

The written history of the world is largely a history of warfare, because the states within which we live came into existence largely through conquest, civil strife, or struggles for independence.

Outside Independence Hall when the Constitutional Convention of 1787 ended

Egypt is kind of like the Hollywood of the Middle East. I mean, we had cinema maybe decades before the other Arab countries ever got independence.

Child labor becomes a label of condemnation in spite of its ancient function as the quickest, most reliable way to human independence

Anything that's popular is a rear-view image.

They were not mentioned in the Declaration of Independence, they were absent in the Constitution and they were invisible in the new political democracy. They were the women of early America.