Quotes of: History-book Keyword

I almost fainted. There was no family history. I had been eating a vegetarian diet and I exercised.

Rue McClanahan

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

H. G. Wells

Making a history requires character; making an admirable history requires quality!

W.O. Makora

Going around in life using German, which Margaret had learned only a few years before, was like walking around in high heels--although it drove up the aesthetic rush of going out on the town, it was dreadfully uncomfortable after a while, and there w...

The History of History

History is the long struggle of man, by exercise of his reason, to understand his environment and to act upon it. But the modern period has broadened the struggle in a revolutionary way. Man now seeks to understand, and act on, not only his environme...

What Is History?

In a perfectly designed world —one with no history— we would not have to suffer everything from hemorrhoids to cancer.

Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body

For anyone of a rational disposition, fashion is often nearly impossible to fathom. Throughout many periods of history – perhaps most – it can seem as if the whole impulse of fashion has been to look maximally ridiculous. If one could be maximall...

At Home: A Short History of Private Life

Science fiction is the most important literature in the history of the world, because it's the history of ideas, the history of our civilization birthing itself. ...Science fiction is central to everything we've ever done, and people who make fun of ...

Ray Bradbury

Biographical history, as taught in our public schools, is still largely a history of boneheads: ridiculous kings and queens, paranoid political leaders, compulsive voyagers, ignorant generals — the flotsam and jetsam of historical currents. The men...

Martin Gardner

I've always loved history, from my youngest memories. My father enjoyed the great stories of history, like Hereward the Wake, Robin Hood, and Richard the Lionheart, and he shared them with me. I went on to do a degree in history, though I found it ra...

Jo Beverley

Human history has become too much a matter of dogma taught by 'professionals' in ivory towers as though it's all fact. Actually, much of human history is up for grabs. The further back you go, the more that the history that's taught in the schools an...

Graham Hancock

The history of prescriptions about English ... is in part a history of bogus rules, superstitions, half-baked logic, groaningly unhelpful lists, baffling abstract statements, false classifications, contemptuous insiderism and educational malfeasance....

Henry Hitchings

Good writing is always new.

On Histories and Stories: Selected Essays

If time travel is possible, where are the tourists from the future?

A Brief History of Time

The aim of every authentic artist is not to conform to the history of art, but to release himself from it in order to replace it with his own history.

Harold Rosenberg

Without forgetting it is quite impossible to live at all.

On the Advantage and Disadvantage of History for Life

Most beds aren't as intimate as people think they are.

The History Man

Energy is liberated matter, matter is energy waiting to happen.

A Short History of Nearly Everything

We are inscrutable even to ourselves, I suppose.

A Partial History of Lost Causes

Every walker is a guard on patrol to protect the ineffable.

Wanderlust: A History of Walking

I don't have the best family history heart-wise, so I really try to keep my heart strong.

Kelly Ripa