Quotes of: Family-history Keyword

It seems impossible that you could get something from nothing, but the fact that once there was nothing and now there is a universe is evident proof that you can.

A Short History of Nearly Everything

A historian can never claim to have the last word on anything as he is limited by his sources and further so by his viewpoint.

Meaning and History: The Rizal Lectures

What desire can be contrary to nature since it was given to man by nature itself?

Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason

It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between.

A Natural History of the Senses

As my former Yale colleague Rogers Smith has put it: "Elegance is not worth that price.

The Landscape of History: How Historians Map the Past

We have to free half of the human race, the women, so that they can help to free the other half." ~ Emmeline Pankhurst

The Suffragette: The History of the Women's Militant Suffrage Movement

For other great mathematicians or philosophers, used the epithets magnus, or clarus, or clarissimus; for alone he kept the prefix summus.

A Short Account of the History of Mathematics

took no exercise, indulged in no amusements, and worked incessantly, often spending eighteen or nineteen hours out of the twenty-four in writing.

A Short Account of the History of Mathematics

Memory is essential to who we are, and memories can be both implicit and explicit - unconscious and conscious.

The Shaking Woman, or A History of My Nerves

I want you to write yourself into history because no matter what history books say, even you are a part of it.

The Shadow Speaker

Why do beautiful women love ugly men?

The Secret History of Wonder Woman

But that's the challenge -- to change the system more than it changes you.

The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals

When chickens get to live like chickens, they'll taste like chickens, too.

The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals

Before God and high heaven, is there a law for one man which is not a law for every other man?

A People's History of the United States

The cry of the poor is is not always just, but if you don't listen to it, you will never know what justice is.

A People's History of the United States

Thinking is generally thought of as doing nothing in a production-oriented society, and doing nothing is hard to do. It's best done by disguising it as doing something, and the something closest to doing nothing is walking.

Wanderlust: A History of Walking

A labyrinth is a symbolic journey . . . but it is a map we can really walk on, blurring the difference between map and world.

Wanderlust: A History of Walking

Americans worship technology. It's an inherent trait in the national zeitgeist.

World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War

A lone walker is both present and detached, more than an audience but less than a participant. Walking assuages or legitimizes this alienation.

Wanderlust: A History of Walking

It's one of those unforgettable moments that happen as a child, when you discover that all along the world has been betraying you.

The History of Love

there are two types of people in the world: those who prefer to be sad among others, and those who prefer to be sad alone.

The History of Love