Quotes of: Black-history Keyword

The notion of 'history from below' hit the history profession in England very hard around the time I came to Oxford in the early 1960s.

Robert Darnton

In fact, there are more homeowners today than ever before in the history of our Nation and more minority homeowners than ever before in the history of our Nation.

Todd Tiahrt

We look to the history of the time of framing and to the intervening history of interpretation. But the ultimate question must be, what do the words of the text mean in our time.

William J. Brennan, Jr.

It is needless to say how great has been the influence of the doctrine of Evolution, or rather perhaps of the method of investigation to which it has given birth, upon the study of history, especially the history of institutions.

Goldwin Smith

For long, history was mainly political history, and historical narrative was confined to an account of the most important crises in political life, or to an account of wars and great generals.

Michael Rostovtzeff

We are now in the Me Decade - seeing the upward roll of the third great religious wave in American history.

Tom Wolfe

Evolution on the large scale unfolds, like much of human history, as a succession of dynasties.

Edmund Beecher Wilson

Many people read History books but it takes just a few people to LEAD the cause that will shape the course of HISTORY.

Fela Durotoye

It was the greatest, most intricate, most ingenious and most costly rescue mission in all of human history.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

...And so history gets written to prove the legend is ridiculous. But soon the legend replaces the history because the legend is more interesting.

John Brouwer

Home gives you something no other place can... your history. Home is where your history begins.

Billie Letts

We have to remember, sometimes the most important history is the history we're making today.

J.K. Rowling

Myth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how reliable that is.

Joseph Campbell

A history of literature, unlike history as such, ought to list only victories, for its defeats are no victory for anyone.

Julien Gracq

[after his men fail to kill Tom] Richie Cusack: How do you fuck that up?

A History of Violence

Put your hand in your conscience and see if it does not come out as black as pitch.

Dutch

Once you have been tossed by a buffalo, a black ox looks like a buffalo.

Kenyan

When a miller fights with a chimney sweep, the miller gets black and the chimney sweep gets white.

Yiddish

This is an orchestration for an event. For a dance in fact. The participants will be apprised of their roles at the proper time. For now it is enough that they have arrived. As the dance is the thing with which we are concerned and contains complete ...

Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West

Who that has ever visited the borders of this classic sea, has not felt at the first sight of its waters a glow of reverent rapture akin to devotion, and an instinctive sensation of thanksgiving at being permitted to stand before these hallowed waves...

The Natural History of the European Seas

The decadence which did occur in the Islamic world belongs to a much later period of Islamic history than is usually claimed. This fact would be fully substantiated if the integral history of Islamic science and civilization were to be written one da...

A Young Muslim's Guide to the Modern World