Quotes of: National-history Keyword

History fondly remembers those who meet expectations but is written by a few who exceed them.

Faisal Khosa

In the late 1990s, I left the teaching field to write biographies and histories for young adults.

Charles J. Shields

You can hide memories, suppress them, but you can’t erase the history that produced them

Haruki Murakami

The History Of The Universe In Three Words CHAPTER ONE Bang! CHAPTER TWO sssss CHAPTER THREE crunch. THE END

Iain M. Banks

Throughout history, only a small number of people have done the serious thinking for everybody.

John Brockman

No harm's done to history by making it something someone would want to read." ( , NEH Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities 2003)

David McCullough

I mainly read histories and biographies, but I'm also a big fan of Graham Swift and Thomas Hardy.

Ben Elliot

Never in mankind’s history have we so fundamentally changed our means of existence with so little thought.

James Rozoff

History had a way of playing cruel tricks on those who chased it.

Dan Brown

If you are kind enough today, history will sing your song and be kind to you.

Debasish Mridha

Concepts, like individuals, have their histories and are just as incapable of withstanding the ravages of time as are individuals. But in and through all this they retain a kind of homesickness for the scenes of their childhood.

Soren Kierkegaard

Captain Sharp: It's been proven by history: all mankind makes mistakes.

Moonrise Kingdom

Senator Charles Palantine: We meet at a crossroads in history. No longer will the wrong roads be taken.

Taxi Driver

Society mends its wounds. And that's invariably true in all the tragedies, in the comedies as well. And certainly in the histories.

Charlton Heston

Distorted history boasts of bellicose glory... and seduces the souls of boys to seek mystical bliss in bloodshed and in battles.

Alfred Adler

The real heroes are those ones who are forgotten, forsaken and remain the nameless ones, in the history of time.

Auliq Ice

How beautiful would history have been if it could be written beforehand and then acted out like drama!

Aihebholo-oria Okonoboh

The problems afflicting a nation are always in equal measure spiritual crises.

Confidence Men: Wall Street, Washington, and the Education of a President

Why should the constitution of a peaceful individual hold less weight than the constitution of a nation?

Celestial Kings and Queens

You will not kill my girlfriend today, International Terrorists of Ambiguous Nationality!

The Fault in Our Stars

A nation forgetting its own laughter is in a sad state of affairs

Boulder Blues: A Tale of the Colorado Counterculture