Quotes About Connection

There would be no Lenin without Rasputin.

History does not belong to us; we belong to it.

Art has this ability to allow you to connect back through history in the same way that biology does. I'm always looking for source material.

History is all explained by geography.

We may not live in the past, but the past lives in us.

If you don't know history, then you don't know anything. You are a leaf that doesn't know it is part of a tree.

For most of human history, musicians, artists, they've been part of the community — connectors and openers, not untouchable stars.

People find a sense of being, a sense of worth and substance being associated with land. Association with final roots gives us not only a history but proclaims us heirs to a future.

Never in history has distance meant less.

I think one of the most fascinating things you can do after you learn about your own people is to study something about the history and culture of other people.

Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.

To have a sense of history one must consider oneself a piece of history.

I was attracted to the direct connection with history that land surveyors experience in the form of plans, field notes, and from surveying monuments from decades or even centuries in the past.

Rivers run through our history and folklore, and link us as a people.... We are a nation rich in rivers.

Here is a shared memory that we didn't share, forgot to share, for almost ninety years.

It's the greatest legacy you could ever leave your children or your loved ones: the history of how you felt.

Strangers are exciting, their mystery never ends. But, there's nothing like looking at your own history in the faces of your friends.

What is the fire in our belly but the eternal flame of a thousand ancestors.

Human history is a Gaian dream.

Even the most painstaking history is a bridge across an eternal mystery.

History without politics descends to mere Literature.

One of the things that's important about family is the narrative history they create for themselves.

I am not so different in my history of abandonment from anyone else after all. We have all been split away from the earth, each other, ourselves.

I'm interested in the way in which the past affects the present and I think that if we understand a good deal more about history, we automatically understand a great more about contemporary life.