Quotes About History

It would be nice once during my life to go over [to Europe] and study the original paintings of the Masters.

I've given my life to the principle and the ideal of memory, and remembrance.

You know, in each segment of ex-Yugoslavia, multi-ethnic life is lost, except I think we somehow still have this in Serbia.

No, my degree was history, not the practice of art! I can't draw to save my life you know.

Children don't heed the life experiences of their parents, and nations ignore history. Bad lessons always have to be learned anew.

A child is beset with long traditions. And his infancy is so old, so old, that the mere adding of years in the life to follow will not seem to throw it further back -- it is already so far.

I have been very interested in labor movement. If I could have wished another life, I would have loved to be a pioneer woman in the beginning of labor movement.

There's no idea in the world that is not contained by black life. I could write forever about the black experience in America.

I had one life. And what did I do? Wasted it in some palooka preliminaries in Spain, just before Hitler and Chamberlain warm up for the main event.

For me, the canvas is an abstract interpretation of a wall. It's a piece of art with its own history, one that alludes to the passage of time and to the theater of life.

When contrasted with the much longer time that life has been present, the course of Christianity thus far is but a brief moment.

Like the philosopher, the author views his task as one of establishing a clear connection between life and history, and of making the past bear fruit for the present and future.

History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time.

History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time; it illumines reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life and brings us tidings of antiquities.

I am intrigued by inanimate objects. They're a piece of history, someone's statement and ideas of life.

If you think your lot in life has been hard read "Up From Slavery" by Booker T. Washington, and you may see how fortunate you have been.

In economic life and history more generally, just about everything of consequence comes from black swans; ordinary events have paltry effects in the long term.

My own sense of family, where I came from and what I made for myself is an important part of my life.

In history and in life one sometimes seems to glimpse a ferocious law which states: to he that has, will be given; from he that has not, will be taken away.

One of my fantasies in my life has been that I was granted access with a camera to go back in time, and to film the actual campaign of Alexander crossing into India through Iran and Persia.

...a nation could change its way of life, its history, its technology, its art, literature, and culture, but it would never have a real chance to change its gestures.

There is properly no history, only biography.

Mike Bloomberg may be a Republican these days. But he has been a Democrat for most of his adult life.

And like no other sculpture in the history of art, the dead engine and dead airframe come to life at the touch of a human hand, and join their life with the pilot's own.