Quotes of: Contemporary-history Keyword

You absorb 2,000 years of history just by being near the Thames.

Martin Freeman

Whatever can be noted historically can be found within history.

Martin Heidegger

Love is the whole history of a woman's life, it is but an episode in a man's.

Madame de Stael

Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.

Napoleon Bonaparte

History is a vast early warning system.

Norman Cousins

Poetry is the elder sister of history, the mother of language, the ancestress of civilization.

Orson F. Whitney

Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.

Plato

My major allegiance has been to storytelling, not to history.

Russell Banks

I turned pro and won Rookie of the Year on the South African Tour and then it took me two tries at the qualifying school on the European Tour and to get my card and the rest is history.

Retief Goosen

Today's population of adolescents and young adults is the largest in our nation's history.

Ruben Hinojosa

The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.

Richard M. Nixon

History is a facsimile of events held together by finally biographical information.

Robert Smithson

Oh, do not read history, for that I know must be false.

Robert Walpole

More Americans are working today than at any time in history.

Roger Wicker

History is a relay of revolutions.

Saul Alinsky

I've always enjoyed reading history, particularly presidential biographies.

Seth Grahame-Smith

Look at history. It's not the account of a species at peace.

Salman Rushdie

The Bible, for all its riches, is not a document of social history.

Simon Schama

Let's not forget that the Paralympics, just like the Olympics, are built on a rich history.

Stella Young

This is a Disney animated feature; it's eternal, it's history. What's there to think about'

Tia Carrere

Journalism is in fact history on the run.

Thomas Griffith