Quotes About Chronicle

Adin Even-Israel Steinsaltz

All history is biography.

There is properly no history; only biography.

We are all the sons and daughters of time

It is not only my dreams, my belief is that all these dreams are yours as well. The only distinction between me and you is that I can articulate them. And that is what poetry or painting or literature or filmmaking is all about... and it is my duty because this might be the inner chronicle of what we are. We have to articulate ourselves, otherwise we would be cows in the field.

There was a point to this story, but it has temporarily escaped the chronicler's mind.

It has been raining here for ten years.I keep an accurate record of time and can state this with no fear of contradiction.

The blues is an impulse to keep the painful details and episodes of a brutal experience alive in one's aching consciousness, to finger its jagged grain, and to transcend it, not by the consolation of philosophy but by squeezing from it a near-tragic, near-comic lyricism. As a form, the blues is an autobiographical chronicle of personal catastrophe expressed lyrically.

To the kids, this extravagant convoy might even seem normal. They'll have to see ordinary trains, at other times in other places, do you realise just how magical this caravan of gypsies is. A few years in Europe will suffice for them to recreate the landscapes handed down to them by their patriarchs and discover that their life is just a chronicle foretold. Then these men of maize will only have to write well to get the Nobel Prize for poems of love and songs of despair.

Voluntary Quicksand I read the Chronicle this morning as if I were stepping into voluntary quicksand and watched the news go over my shoes with forty-four more days of spring. Kent State America May 7, 1970

Many brave men lived before Agamemnon; but, all unwept and unknown, are lost in the distant night, since they are without a divine poet (to chronicle their deeds).

History had a slow pulse; man counted in years, history in generations

My ambition is not only to chronicle but to interpret and reveal the movement of the mind and unfold the sources of India in the profound plane of human nature.

History, with all her volumes vast, Hath but one page.

Some write a narrative of wars and feats, Of heroes little known, and call the rant A history.

I think I'm always drawn to a good story

History is the autobiography of a madman.

People tend to forget that the word "history" contains the word "story".

History is indeed the witness of the times, the light of truth.

History is His story.

When a history book contains no lies it is always tedious.

Our history is an aggregate of last moments

Oral history interviews allow us to document and chronicle people's stories; stories that might otherwise not be included in the historical record.

A chronicle is very different from history proper.