Quotes About History

The law is the witness and external deposit of our moral life. Its history is the history of the moral development of the race.

All you have to do is relax and feel your history, because it will never go away and there is no future without it.

The camera is an eye that sees and records the lives of filthy people. Its pictures are hung in museums and published in thick books that future generations can see how horrible life was.

I tend to live in the past because most of my life is there.

The history of life is written in terms of negative entropy.

The novel since its origins has been the privatization of history... the history of private life ... and in that sense every novel is an historical novel.

I should have known better. Pro-life arguments are now based on scientific evidence and the pro-choice arguments are not. That is a cultural, historical fact.

Every creature alive on the earth today represents an unbroken line of life that stretches back to the first primitive organism to appear on this planet; and that is about three billion years.

Thus it cannot be denied that the masses which today form our highest mountains were originally in a liquid state; for a long time they were covered by waters which did not sustain any life.

History records the large events or the general condition of society, but only an individual can put down the way of life in a small town.

This entire process of stellar evolution is by natural process alone. We do not have to invoke Divine intervention at any stage in the history of the life-cycle of the stars that we observe.

The spoken word vanished with the wind. Likewise, the unrecorded life disappears as if it never existed.

Only uncomfortable chairs become antiques - the comfortable ones are worn out by hard use.

As the decades go by, a painter's life becomes a life lived with oil paint, a story told in the thicknesses of oil. Any history of painting that does not take that obsession seriously is incomplete.

Life is a wonderful thing to talk about, or to read about in history books - but it is terrible when one has to live it.

Had I been chosen President again, I am certain I could not have lived another year.

The gray glaze of the past attacks all know-how...

The resurrection is a fact better attested than any event recorded in any history, whether ancient or modern.

If the means were available, we could trace our ancestry - yours and mine - back to the first blob of life-like material that came into being on the planet.

I read the book [My Life by Bill Clinton] completely. And I think it compares very favorably with Ulysses S. Grant's gold standard of presidential autobiographies.

Only through acknowledgment of the erasure and void of Jewish life can the history of Berlin and Europe have a human future.

I'm somebody who is very, very proud to have been a part of the British film industry all my life and to have kind of been involved with a very important piece of British film history.

Pearl Harbor was the defining event in my life. It shaped who I am, and all of my hang-ups and my drives, I think, stem from that.

Some people are larger than life. Hitler is larger than death.