Quotes About History

This history of culture will explain to us the motives, the conditions of life, and the thought of the writer or reformer.

The history of my life is the history of the struggle between an overwhelming urge to write and a combination of circumstances bent on keeping me from it.

It comes to this then: there always have been people like me and always will be, and generally they have been persecuted.

I don't know whether you can look at your past and find, woven like the hidden symbols on a treasure map, the path that will point to your final destination.

Whether we like it or not, we all come from someplace. And at some point in our lives, we have to make peace with that place.

Life is one long decay, no? There's a lot of beauty in it. Like the patina in an old city.

My life changed completely in 1989 with the fall of the wall.

The whole history of life is a record of cycles.

If my life be spared, nothing shall stop me short of visiting every nation of Indians on the Continent of North America.

It is with a kind of fear that I begin to write the history of my life.

[Lyndon Baines ] Johnson is a big and larger-than-life guy, we just tried to give him the dynamic range that he actually had.

Lots of the time, we just think of the Bible as history or life lessons or poetry or - unfortunately - a collection of 'thou shall' and 'thou shalt nots!' All those elements are part of Scripture.

History, that is to say, the unconscious, universal life of humanity, in the aggregate, every moment profits by the life of kings for itself, as an instrument for the accomplishment of its own ends.

Presidents quickly realize that while a single act might destroy the world they live in, no one single decision can make life suddenly better or can turn history around for the good.

We have to find our own purposes in life, which are not derived directly from our scientific history.

If you are born black, it is better to be born now than in any other time in United States history. My grandson is black. His life is a different life than if he had been born when I was born.

The history of life is a tale of decimation and later stabilization of few surviving anatomies, not a story of steady expansion and progress.

Fairy tales and myths are forms of cultural storage for the natural history of life.

Man is the only creature we know, that, when the term of his natural life is ended, leaves the memory of himself behind him.

Art is the suitcase of history, carrying the essentials. Art is the life buoy of history. Art is seed, art is memory, art is vaccine.

My kind publishers, Toby Mundy and Margaret Stead of Atlantic Books, have commissioned me to write the life of Queen Victoria.

All of my close friends have been in my life for years. My best friends are all people I met in grade school, going back as far as 3rd grade.

[Harriet Tubman] lived such a full, complex, and irrefutably-dynamic life that all the craft in the world would be insufficient in honoring her legacy.

In Cuba we had the most ferocious form of capitalism for 60 years. It dominated every sphere of life.