Quotes of: Natural-history Keyword

This history of culture will explain to us the motives, the conditions of life, and the thought of the writer or reformer.

War and Peace

It is necessary to distinguish between history and fantasy wherever possible. And then use them against each other.

Was

The most widely criticised singers in the history of opera, Maria Callas and Franco Corelli, happen also to be the best singers. I am honoured for being part of their group.

Andrea Bocelli

Michael Jordon may have been the best basketball player in history, but he couldn't have won six NBA titles without a team.

Mark E. Hyman

In times of war, it is often best to look to our history to see how past generations of Americans dealt with the loss of their countrymen in just causes.

Virginia Foxx

History has the relation to truth that theology has to religion — ie., none to speak of

Time Enough for Love

History's greatest composers would be appalled to hear their greatest works reduced to distorted hold music for businesses.

michael p naughton

Physics advances by accepting absurdities. Its history is one of unbelievable ideas proving to be true.

Rivka Galchen

History is no more fixed and dead than the future. The past is no further away than the last breath you took.

Robin Hobb

Stories, like conjuring tricks, are invented because history is inadequate for our dreams.

Steven Millhauser

The imagination is the goal of history. I see culture as an effort to literally realize our collective dreams.

Terence McKenna

I've always loved mysteries, the something there that you didn't know, and with 'Case Histories' I just decide to make that more up-front.

Kate Atkinson

We are anxious in the face of our unchangeable past; we long to recreate segments of our private histories, but we are stuck with them.

Lewis B. Smedes

Find a unique path and make a successful journey over there! This is the way to have a unique place in the history!

Mehmet Murat ildan

There is no nation in the history that has not experienced bloodshed and murdering. We all have committed the same mistakes in a different manner.

M.F. Moonzajer

If miracles represent prophecy, we must have more prophets in twenty first century than the entire human history.

M.F. Moonzajer

They say experience is the best teacher, but I'll be damned if I know what it teaches you.

Oral History

People from different parts of the world can respond to the same story if it says something to them about their own history and their own experience.

Chinua Achebe

Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers.

Carlos Fuentes

When child actors act well they're just reacting to situations, and they're acting very real because their life experience is so short; there's no history to fall back on.

Mariel Hemingway

I studied Shakespeare all through high school. Both of my parents teach English and history, so it has always been around my experience as a young man.

Xavier Samuel