Quotes About History

Every play is so important. It's a record of what life was like at the time you wrote that play or that book.

The Silurian Period-the grandest of all the Periods,-and, as yet, apparently the seed-time of all succeeding life.

People tend to forget that we tie our life history to music like the soundtrack to your life in many more ways than just having a hit record on the radio.

The Bible interprets life from its particular perspective; it does not record in a factual way the human journey through history.

I'm convinced in 100 years Obama will have an important place in the civic pantheon of American life.

My grandfather was one of the most amazing Baptist ministers in history, he was unbelievable. He was one of the most amazing men - the most amazing man that I ever met... He lived an amazing life.

Parents don't realize that when they teach you about the Holocaust too early, it ruins you for life.

Memory is identity....You are what you have done; what you have done is in your memory; what you remember defines who you are; when you forget your life you cease to be, even before your death.

I have been painting white people for much longer in my life than I have done for colored people.

The past has infinite value if one learns from it.

Compared with the thousands of years in which human life has been on this planet, Christianity is a recent development.

In our public life, California is on the verge of being a failed state, and no state has failed in the history of this country.

I see history as really cyclical in terms of the intense idealism, and the desire to create a better life outside of societal norms.

NATO has been a thread throughout my life.

Does not the history of the world show that there would have been no romance in life if there had been no risks?

While in a vintage restaurant..."the past isn't quaint while you're in it. Only at a safe distance, later, when you see it as decor, not as the shape your life's been squeezed into.

Not to know what happened before you were born is always to remain a child. For what is a man's life if it is not linked with the life of future generations by memories of the past?

I think back and I really feel for what he (Roger Maris) went through, for all the negative stuff that was going on in his life. I wish it didn't happen.

City of rest! - as it seems to our modern senses, - how is it possible that so busy, so pitiless and covetous a life as history shows us, should have gone to the making and the fashioning of Venice!

Part of what the imagination does later in life is it's linking you not just to who you are now but to all the people you've been.

Believe it or not, countless generations of children finished their supper before the advent of Kraft Mac & Cheese and ice-cream sandwiches.

Slow cooking is one of the oldest methods of cooking.

I propose that a scientifically sound set of hygiene rules could explain why the Jewish God was a jealous, monotheistic God: He could brook no compromise with the filthy practices of rival gods. Famously faceless, abstract, and unsuperstitious, the Jewish God was science.

Our deeds follow us, and what we have been makes us what we are.