Quotes of: Family-history Keyword

Jane Austen’s world is a unique wedge of history, immortalized by her wonderful books. It is ironic that I am fascinated by the Regency world in all its details, when Jane Austen seldom mentions any of those facts. She never mentions the war raging...

Lesley-Anne McLeod

Identity is the history that has gone into bone and blood and reshaped the flesh. Identity is not what we were but what we have become what we are at this moment.

Culture and History

Every civilization sees itself as the center of the world and writes its history as the central drama of human history.

The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order

To be a philosophical Sceptic is the first and most essential step towards being a sound, believing Christian.

Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion/The Natural History of Religion

Truth is not as pompous and romantic as myth ... but it has the immeasurable value of being the Truth.

E=mc^2: The Most Famous Equation in History... and its Folklore

Is numerical equality (forced by the use of specific physical units) the same as conceptual equality? Of course NOT!

E=mc^2: The Most Famous Equation in History... and its Folklore

The laws of history are as absolute as the laws of physics, and if the probabilities of error are greater, it is only because history does not deal with as many humans as physics does atoms, so that individual variations count for more.

Foundation and Empire

You are not your virginity. You are a human being. The state of your hymen has nothing to do with your worth.

Glory O'Brien's History of the Future

Suicide isn't something people do to hurt other people. It's something people do to release themselves from pain.

Glory O'Brien's History of the Future

Much of human history has consisted of unequal conflicts between the haves and the have-nots.

Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

Ignorance, when voluntary, is criminal, and a man may be properly charged with that evil which he neglected or refused to learn how to prevent.

The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia

Julian recognized that the strength of the orthodox Church rested to a great extent on the imperial discrimination in its favour. According to Ammianus, he tried to atomize the Church by ending the system:

A History of Christianity

He [Augustine] admitted: 'I am the sort of man who writes because he has made progress, and who makes progress by writing.'

A History of Christianity

It is then he realises that certain things loom larger than forgiveness and reconciliation: memory, for one, and history, bloody history.

Here Come The Dogs

There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up the pen to write.

The History of Henry Esmond, Esq.

[R]evolutions of government cannot be effected by the mere force of argument and reasoning;

The History of Great Britain: the Reigns of James I and Charles I

I feel like a failure." The expression comes so naturally that we forget it is a figure of speech: the language of business applied to the soul.

Born Losers: A History of Failure in America

I suppose there are people who can pass up free guacamole, but they're either allergic to avocado or too joyless to live.

Born Round: The Secret History of a Full-time Eater

The two men who bring guns to the ghetto don't know what to do since when music hit you can't hit it back.

A Brief History of Seven Killings

At school, up to the age of sixteen, I found history boring, for we were studying the Industrial Revolution, which was all about Acts, Trade Unions and the factory system, and I wanted to know about people, because it is people who make history.

Alison Weir

In Rome, I particularly love the history, churches, sculptures and architecture and the fact that you can walk along a tiny cobbled street and turn the corner to find the Trevi Fountain. London is evocative of other eras and full of history.

Philip Treacy