Quotes of: National-history Keyword

You could grow up in the city where history was made and still miss it all.

The Fortress of Solitude

They say God appeared in history and used it for his purposes, but if that was so he had no pity for men.

The Fixer

History shows that an examination of the personal collection of titles in any man’s library will provide something of a glimpse into his soul.

Grasshopper Jungle

I also knew that I was on my way to becoming the worst athlete in the history of American boyhood.

Ghost Light

For a brief review of our history to date shows us in a very singular role:that of serial killers.

The God Species

Emotion as well as reason belongs to the very stuff of history.

Historians In The Middle Ages

Yes, I know, it's not the truth, but in a great history little truths can be altered so that the greater truth emerges.

Baudolino

I had come to Yugoslavia to see what history meant in flesh and blood.

Black Lamb and Grey Falcon

Knowledge and wonder are the dyad of our worthy lives as intellectual beings.

Bully for Brontosaurus: Reflections in Natural History

Take a great adventure to a place, learn the rich history and make your own observation about the place.

Beautiful Quotes

If philosophy is practice, a demand to know the manner in which its history is to be studied is entailed: a theoretical attitude toward it becomes real only in the living appropriation of its contents from the texts.

Karl Jaspers

A second type of direct evidence is formed by statements, whether as formal legends or personal information, regarding the age or relative sequence of events in tribal history made by the natives themselves.

Edward Sapir

We are living in the machine age. For the first time in history the comedian has been compelled to supply himself with jokes and comedy material to compete with the machine. Whether he knows it or not, the comedian is on a treadmill to oblivion.

Fred Allen

Each age tries to form its own conception of the past. Each age writes the history of the past anew with reference to the conditions uppermost in its own time.

Frederick Jackson Turner

I didn't choose Russia but Russia chose me. I had been fascinated from an early age by the culture, the language, the literature and the history to the place.

Helen Dunmore

Their chief residence was Bagdad, where they remained until the eleventh century, an age fatal in Oriental history, from the disasters of which the Princes of the Captivity were not exempt.

Isaac D'Israeli

Like everybody at that age, I read an awful lot of pulp fiction. But at the same time, I also read quite a bit of history and read that as much for pleasure as part of a curriculum.

John Hume

Religion is the best antidote to the individualism of the consumer age. The idea that society can do without it flies in the face of history and, now, evolutionary biology.

Jonathan Sacks

There are periods in history when change is necessary, and other periods when it is better to keep everything for the time as it is. The art of life is to be in the rhythm of your age.

Oswald Mosley

In the first weeks after Hiroshima, extravagant statements by President Truman and other official spokesmen for the U.S. government transformed the inception of the atomic age into the most mythologized event in American history.

Stewart Udall

If Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at the age of 22, it would have changed the history of music and of aviation.

Tom Stoppard