Quotes of: Family-history Keyword

Most filmmakers aren't very interested in history. They worry constantly that people will be bored.

Geoffrey Ward

Over the course of television's history, I think fans have done more to save shows and support them than ruin them.

Graham Yost

For most of our history, Americans enjoyed both liberty and security from foreign threats.

Harry Browne

The world's battlefields have been in the heart chiefly; more heroism has been displayed in the household and the closet, than on the most memorable battlefields in history.

Henry Ward Beecher

Every major question in history is a religious question. It has more effect in molding life than nationalism or a common language.

Hilaire Belloc

Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.

Hermann Hesse

Emerson was the chief figure in the American transcendental movement, a fact that complicates all accounts of him in literary or cultural history.

Howard Mumford Jones

The more history I learnt, the less interested I got in winning arguments and the more interested in establishing the truth.

Hilary Mantel

What fascinates me are the turning points where history could have been different.

Hilary Mantel

Nothing moves me more than the history of the United States.

Henry Rollins

I did this within a philosophical framework, and a moral and legal framework. And I have been turned into a cartoon of the greatest villain in the history of lobbying.

Jack Abramoff

Life is a wonderful thing to talk about, or to read about in history books - but it is terrible when one has to live it.

Jean Anouilh

This is what happens, when, for the first time in modern history, a candidate resorts to lawsuits to try to overturn the outcome of an election for president.

James Baker

I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral.

John Burroughs

History was always the subject that I loved the most, and I felt it gave me the deepest sense of our humanity and who we are and where we're going.

Julia Bacha

This was a tragic event in human history, but by paying tribute to the Armenian community we ensure the lessons of the Armenian genocide are properly understood and acknowledged.

Jerry Costello

It took the first 204 years of our Nation's history to accumulate $1 trillion in debt. And now we are doing that every 2 or 3 years.

Jim Cooper

As a kid, I sensed history going on all around me, but the basic thrust of it didn't move me.

James Ellroy

The common people have no history: persecuted by the present, they cannot think of preserving the memory of the past.

Jean Henri Fabre

Knowing what paint a painter uses or having an understanding of where he was in the history of where he came from doesn't hurt your appreciation of the painting.

Jodie Foster

Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man.

Jean Genet