Quotes of: World-history Keyword

History and memory share events; that is, they share time and space. Every moment is two moments.

Fugitive Pieces

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

If the future remains uncertain, we know the past history of nationalism. And that should be sufficient to encourage a habit of watchful suspicion.

Banal Nationalism

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

Beautiful Quotes

We have become aware of the responsibility for our attitude towards the dark pages in our history. We have understood that bad service is done to the nation by those who are impelling to renounce that past.

Aleksander Kwasniewski

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

A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new; when an age ends; and when the soul of a nation long suppressed finds utterance.

Jawaharlal Nehru