Quotes About History

More good has been accomplished by simple people seeking their own honest ends than by all the philanthropists in history.

Since there my past life lies, why alter it?

In the early days of the Indian Territory, there were no such things as birth certificates. You being there was certificate enough.

Life in the Middle East is quite different from other places.

Sometime in the first billion years, life appeared on the earth's surface. Slowly, the fossil record indicates, living organisms climbed the ladder from simple to more advanced forms.

I watch life trickle from the bullet wound of a sixteen-year-old "example" and marvel how things weak, even words, will turn vicious and merciless to gain power,despite reason or history

Most of life on Earth has a deep past, much deeper than ours. And we have benefited from the distillation of all preceding history, call it evolutionary history if you will.

I hear hundreds of years of life. I hear wind and rain and fire and beetles. I hear the seasons changing and birds and squirrels. I hear the life of the trees this wood came from.

The Bible nowhere states that people before the law observed the Sabbath as a day of rest or worship.

Humor, in one form or another, is characteristic of every nation; and reflecting the salient points of social and national life, it illuminates those crowded corners which history leaves obscure.

Humankind has understood history as a series of battles because, to this day, it regards conflict as the central facet of life.

My life had been defined by the apartheid years. Now we were going into an era of democracy... and I believed that I didn't have really a function as an artist, as a useful artist, in that anymore.

In the uncertain ebb and flow of time and emotions much of one's life history is etched in the senses.

Male genitals are still called "the tree of life" by the Arabs, and a cross was one of the oldest diagrammatic images of male genitals.

Lincoln was known to have walked miles to borrow books, to get the most rudimentary form of education. So what do we do on his birthday? We close the schools!

What a lucky thing the wheel was invented before the automobile; otherwise can you imagine the awful screeching?

It is an ancient story Yet is it ever new.

History illumes reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life

History , as it comes into our daily lives, is charged with surprise and shock.

The name Cleopatra wakens the world to life.

I think one of the few times I've been involved with real-life characters was the story of Marie Bonaparte. I think it's really difficult to become someone that really existed.

Beauty is a valid use," Mummy argues. "It creates a sense of place, a sense of personal history. Pleasure, even, Cadence. Have you ever heard of pleasure?

Houses have their own ways of dying, falling as variously as the generations of men, some with a tragic roar, some quietly, but to an afterlife in the city of ghosts, while from others, and thus was the death of Wickham Place, the spirit slips before the body perishes.

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