Quotes of: Historic Keyword

We know that second terms have historically been marred by hubris and by scandal.

David Gergen

Magic, historically, has been a man doing tricks with no wider story behind it.

Drummond Money-Coutts

Many of America's historical cornbreads were staple breads for people who didn't have many other options.

Jeremy Jackson

No one can take Jesus away from me. There's no doubt there was a historical figure of tremendous importance, with enormous notions. Such as peace.

Peter O'Toole

For a long time, I've been interested in cultural memory and historical erasure.

Natasha Trethewey

The 1930s had been a time of tremendous economic distress. And the unemployment rate was enormously high by any historic standard.

William O'Neill

Historically, more people have died of religion than cancer.

Dick Francis

Christianity is a very historical religion - it makes specific claims that are open to testing.

Lee Strobel

You think, 'Musicals, they must always be romantic' - You'd be surprised how few of them historically have ever been romantic.

Harold Prince

It is this conception of the unity of the human career which is perhaps the greatest achievement of historical study, since it gained a place analogous to that of natural science.

James Henry Breasted

Historically, black music has influenced other cultures and other genres and created other genres.

Miguel

The dogma of woman's complete historical subjection to men must be rated as one of the most fantastic myths ever created by the human mind.

Mary Ritter Beard

Teachers don't tell us the truth about historical people. If we knew the truth, parents couldn't hold their lives up as examples.

Tom Hulce

I am not someone who believes I am going to find a historical scoop.

Antony Beevor

Most architects work in studios largely divorced from academia, as if ideas, criticism and historical research were irrelevant.

David Chipperfield

The memory of the Second World War hangs over Europe, an inescapable and irresistible point of reference. Historical parallels are usually misleading and dangerous.

Antony Beevor

As an historical novelist - there are few jobs more retrospective. I dumped science at an early age.

Sara Sheridan

Just because a company falls doesn't invalidate what we can learn by studying that company when it was at its historical best.

James C. Collins

Current utility and historical origin are different subjects.

Stephen Jay Gould

I went to an historically black college where we're always told that there's limitation. And so I'm happy to represent for black colleges.

Terrence J

And finally, it was Deuteronomy that brought about the historical result of Josiah's reformation.

Julius Wellhausen