Quotes About History

My grandfather went through a lot in his life.

We have a harder way to succeed in life as Serbs because of the past that we had and because of the history we had.

I have no doubt I was someone very interesting in a past life.

A phenomenon occurs but because you're in the middle of it, you just think it's your life-until it's over. And then you look back and say, What an unusual thing happened to me in the '60s.

The old shepherd was right: The only solution was to forget a part of uncertainty and create a new history for oneself.

The Warrior remembers the past.

I feel the popular music of a certain time really tells you a lot about what life was like in that period.

From that house there has come so much life that it ought never to die or fall into ruin... For me that house was a gateway to America.

The ordinary routines of life are never chronicled by the historian, but they make up almost the whole of experience.

I wanted to be a poet when I was 20; I had no interest in fiction or biography and precious little interest in history, but those three elements in my life have become the most important.

I'm all about nonfiction. I rarely read fiction. I like to read about things that really happened, facts, real life situations. That's what inspires me.

I call myself a traditionalist, although I have fought against tradition all my life.

All the history of human life has been a struggle between wisdom and stupidity.

The death of JFK to the resignation of Richard Nixon marked a great turning point in American life.

There is nothing like the dead cold hand of the past to take down our tumid egotism and lead us into the solemn flow of the life of our race.

For me the fascination with biography is the life of the individual in the context of history.

A biography is never a biography of one person, of course, but the individual life of your protagonist will never conform. It will always bang up against history.

I take something that happened to me in 1983, and I make it happen to somebody else in 1943. I pick my life apart that way, try to understand it better by writing straight through it.

I look on Sculpture as history. I do not think the Apollo and the Jove impossible in flesh and blood. Every trait the artist recorded in stone, he had seen in life, and better than his copy.

If art is to survive it must describe and express people, their lives and times.

Welcome to the last 900 years of my life.

I think that everything in this life is a story you know; our own narrative, our own history, it's all a story.

History may defeat the Christ but it nevertheless points to him as the law of life.

The further along we get on our life journey the more we wonder about those who traveled before us and paved the road.