Quotes About History

Life is a series of family photos in which you keep moving to the rear until finally you're a portrait in the background.

Understanding the history of matter and searching for its most interesting forms, such as galaxies, stars, planets and life, seems a suitable use for our intelligence.

My whole life I've been trying to prove I'm not just yesterday.

I've been enjoying 'Life on the Mississippi' by Mark Twain that I picked up at the airport randomly. It's very witty and interesting to read about his time as a steamboat pilot.

All my life there's always been an ex-wife or a girlfriend.

Because of where I come from, I never thought I'd see in my life a black candidate running for President.

When you have a knowledge of history, it's very soothing. When there's continuity in your life, it's soothing.

You can pretty much do it with anything. You can tell your life story with all the jeans you've worn, or every pair of shoes you've owned.

We know the Church wasn't born 200 years ago. It's encouraging to see some of the post-denominational churches actually wanting to reconnect with the story and the prayer life of the larger Church.

The past isn't real because it's history, and the future isn't because it hasn't happened yet. I like it, it hints at virtual reality, which I think is how we sort of feel about life sometimes.

The causes of life's history [cannot] resolve the riddle of life's meaning.

The development of beings with minds is probably the highest individuation the world has ever known, and its prehistory is the history of life on earth.

We have either to progress or to degenerate. Our ancestors did great things in the past, but we have to grow into a fuller life and march beyond even their great achievements.

I have a rule: I will not alter the basic history of a real-life character to suit our fictional needs in a big way.

The more details we learn about the chemical basis of life and the intricacy of the genetic code, the more unbelievable the standard historical account becomes

In the progress of politics, as in the common occurrences of life, we are not only apt to forget the ground we have travelled over, but frequently neglect to gather up experiences as we go.

As filmmakers, the Western is a historic, cool thing to be a part of once in your life.

That signal's come and gone a lot in my life-time, that prairie progressivism died . I think prairie progressivism is still there. Every once in a while, odd things take place.

The coming week in The Hague may prove to be one of the most important in the three-and-a-half-billion year history of life on earth.

Let your holidays be associated with great public events, and they may be the life of patriotism as well as a source of relaxation and personal employment.

I am impressed by how much of my grandparent's life depended on continuities, contacts, connections, friendships, and blood relationships.

Throughout the greater part of his life George III was a kind of 'consecrated obstruction'.

A nation's life is about as long as its reverential memory

The life of the ancient Greeks and Romans has profoundly influenced our own, and yet the ways in which they affect us do not present themselves on the surface of our ordinary experiences.