Quotes of: Modern-history Keyword

American history and the history of baseball are bound up together: our racial politics can be described and traced through it.

Chad Harbach

So many people of color who made major contributions to American history have been trapped in the purgatory of history.

Henry Louis Gates

I love thinking about American history, thinking about LA history. I love brooding on crime.

James Ellroy

Black History Month must be more than just a month of remembrance; it should be a tribute to our history and reminder of the work that lies in the months and years ahead.

Marty Meehan

Bill and Hillary Clinton are the most investigated couple in American history - now the most thoroughly exonerated couple in American history.

Paul Begala

Most of us, I think, are conscious of history swirling around outside the door, but when we're in the house, we're usually not dealing with history. We're not thinking about history.

Pearl Cleage

Sweetheart, I'm the biggest ripped-off cartoonist in the history of the world, and that's all I'm going to say.

Ralph Bakshi

The history of man is the history of crimes, and history can repeat. So information is a defence. Through this we can build, we must build, a defence against repetition.

Simon Wiesenthal

If people really want to know and learn from history, why do they want bad history? Why don't they want good history? Wouldn't you rather know the truth, rather than the legend?

Alison Weir

Maj. Cotton: That must be the first 50 in the history of village cricket.

Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India

and , in this country, resumed the work of the Italians and of ; and the former, aided by a marvellous power of clear exposition, placed upon an irrefragable basis the truth that natural causes are competent to account for all events, which can be pr...

The Advance of Science in the Last Half-Century

Within the universe of the extraordinary, those qualities we designate to human concepts of gender are often shared, exchanged, or even completely obliterated. Because of this mixture of traits, these twins called Genius and Madness often appear to b...

Illuminated Corners: Collected Essays and Articles Volume I.

To take a specific example, a researcher in the Journal of Traumatic Stress interviewed 129 women with documented histories of child sexual abuse that occurred between the ages of 10 months and 12 years. Of those, 38 percent had forgotten the abuse. ...

Trauma Cinema: Documenting Incest and the Holocaust

I think people should take mythology much more seriously, because it tells us an awful lot about the history of the human race. We tend to dismiss it as 'fairy tales,' when it isn't. Fairy tales in themselves are about fundamentals of human nature. A...

Jan Siegel

Ability to see the cultural value of wilderness boils down, in the last analysis, to a question of intellectual humility. The shallow-minded modern who has lost his rootage in the land assumes that he has already discovered what is important; it is s...

Aldo Leopold

Happy nations have no history.

Belgian

If (or rather when) you move to death, you’ll learn its language through the educational process known as total immersion. (7)

Death's Door: Modern Dying and the Ways We Grieve

A leader should demonstrate his thoughts and opinions through his actions, not through his words.

Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World

If you can't swallow your pride, you can't lead. Even the highest mountain had animals that step on it.

Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World

Equality is not the empirical claim that all groups of humans are interchangeable; it is the moral principle that individuals should not be judged or constrained by the average properties of their group.

The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature

New needs need new techniques. And the modern artists have found new ways and new means of making their statements... the modern painter cannot express this age, the airplane, the atom bomb, the radio, in the old forms of the Renaissance or of any ot...

Jackson Pollock