Quotes of: Contemporary-history Keyword

Garbage is the part of your history you don't want your family to know about.

Vik Muniz

History and experience tell us that moral progress comes not in comfortable and complacent times, but out of trial and confusion.

Gerald R. Ford

The character and history of each child may be a new and poetic experience to the parent, if he will let it.

Margaret Fuller

History shows us that the songs - the myth, the experience and the emotion - live longer the less you explain.

Sondre Lerche

The American flag is the symbol of our freedom, national pride and history.

Mike Fitzpatrick

When the great history of trouble is written, my family will stand extremely high in the table of contents.

Allan Sherman

The most successful families embrace and elevate their family history, particularly their failures, setbacks and other missteps.

Bruce Feiler

Anyone who believes you can't change history has never tried to write his memoirs.

David Ben-Gurion

Honestly, I didn't have the patience for biology or history in an academic sense, but I always liked the kind of big questions.

Andrew Bird

Some novelists want to give people in history a voice because they have been denied it in the past.

Antony Beevor

Of course history is easily manipulated - though that makes it even more important for us to know what actually happened.

Antony Beevor

What I am is a thinking, feeling human being compelled by history.

Avery Brooks

The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.

Arthur C. Clarke

In our cultural history, all emotions have been more culturally acceptable to women.

Ariel Gore

History teaches that the level of unemployment is not as important as whether the rate's going down.

Austan Goolsbee

History speaks to artists. It changes the artist's thinking and is constantly reshaping it into different and unexpected images.

Anselm Kiefer

And when you started looking into Roger East, it was almost like he had disappeared from history.

Anthony LaPaglia

It takes only a few seconds to make history new again.

Amity Shlaes

The pull of history has been a strong theme in my life as a novelist.

Anita Shreve

In America journalism is apt to be regarded as an extension of history: in Britain, as an extension of conversation.

Anthony Sampson

Well, I think that California has had a history of always spending more money than it takes in.

Arnold Schwarzenegger