Quotes of: Study-history Keyword

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

Because normal human activity is worse for nature than the greatest nuclear accident in history.

Martin Cruz Smith

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

In all works on Natural History, we constantly find details of the marvellous adaptation of animals to their food, their habits, and the localities in which they are found.

Alfred Russel Wallace

We know from our own history that democratic institutions take decades to mature, and we know from past conflicts that freedom is not free.

Jim DeMint

I was determined to achieve the total freedom that our history lessons taught us we were entitled to, no matter what the sacrifice.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

Knowing more about family history is the single biggest predictor of a child's emotional well-being. Grandparents can play a special role in this process, too.

Bruce Feiler

It's very strange that most people don't care if their knowledge of their family history only goes back three generations.

Douglas Coupland

Mr. Speaker, we have reached a point in history where some have forgotten that it is the family, not the government, that is the fundamental building block of our society.

Jim Ryun

Being a broadcaster encompasses the business of sport, which is my life today, and it encompasses the skills of being a history student, and the ability of being a performer.

Bill Walton

This country-right-or-wrong business is getting a little out-of-date.. History is moving pretty quickly these days and the heroes and villains keep on changing parts.

Ian Fleming