Quotes of: The-history-of Keyword

We cannot leave history entirely to nonclinical observers and to professional historians.

Erik Erikson

I've been in the director's chair for 'Battlestar Galactica' since its first season. I directed the only comedy that's ever been done in Galactica history.

Edward James Olmos

We have nothing in our history or position to invite aggression; we have everything to beckon us to the cultivation of relations of peace and amity with all nations.

Franklin Pierce Adams

History may be divided into three movements: what moves rapidly, what moves slowly and what appears not to move at all.

Fernand Braudel

I don't think all buildings have to be iconic, but the history of the world has shown us that cultures build iconic buildings for their major public buildings.

Frank Gehry

My reading of philosophy and history is desultory; I know so much and yet so little.

F. Sionil Jose

Gardeners instinctively know that flowers and plants are a continuum and that the wheel of garden history will always be coming full circle.

Francis Cabot Lowell

Look at the history of peace accords in Africa. They have a terrible record. They are shredded even before the ink on them is dry.

George Ayittey

I was a daydreamer, and there is a lot of history and geography and science I missed out on because I was in my head. And I regret that.

Gillian Anderson

You have Extreme and Van Halen and the history that I have with other people I played with. There are some effects that will hopefully break that stereotype.

Gary Cherone

Rome - the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.

George Eliot

Ordinary Kenyans rightly want to be able to shop safely, and there is a long history of them doing just that, irrespective of their religion or that of the shop owner.

Giles Foden

History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.

George Santayana

I'm into the vampire stuff. I think it's really fascinating and interesting. There's a lot of history behind all of that, and if you look into it, it's really interesting stuff.

Gloria Votsis

Most filmmakers aren't very interested in history. They worry constantly that people will be bored.

Geoffrey Ward

Over the course of television's history, I think fans have done more to save shows and support them than ruin them.

Graham Yost

For most of our history, Americans enjoyed both liberty and security from foreign threats.

Harry Browne

The world's battlefields have been in the heart chiefly; more heroism has been displayed in the household and the closet, than on the most memorable battlefields in history.

Henry Ward Beecher

Every major question in history is a religious question. It has more effect in molding life than nationalism or a common language.

Hilaire Belloc

Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.

Hermann Hesse

Emerson was the chief figure in the American transcendental movement, a fact that complicates all accounts of him in literary or cultural history.

Howard Mumford Jones