Quotes of: World-history Keyword

The lack of a sense of history is the damnation of the modern world.

Robert Penn Warren

The earth will always be the same - only cities and history will change, even nations will change, governments and governors will go, the things made by men's hands will go, buildings will always crumble - only the earth will remain the same, there w...

Windblown World: The Journals of Jack Kerouac 1947-1954

In a perfectly designed world —one with no history— we would not have to suffer everything from hemorrhoids to cancer.

Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body

Science fiction is the most important literature in the history of the world, because it's the history of ideas, the history of our civilization birthing itself. ...Science fiction is central to everything we've ever done, and people who make fun of ...

Ray Bradbury

The history of prescriptions about English ... is in part a history of bogus rules, superstitions, half-baked logic, groaningly unhelpful lists, baffling abstract statements, false classifications, contemptuous insiderism and educational malfeasance....

Henry Hitchings

Many of the best fantastic stories begin in a leisurely way, set in commonplace surroundings, with exact, meticulous descriptions of an ordinary background, much as in a 'realistic' tale. Then a gradual - or it may be sometimes a shockingly abrupt - ...

The Fantasy Book: An Illustrated History From Dracula To Tolkien

For the point is this: not that myth refers us back to some original event which has been fancifully transcribed as it passed through collective memory; but that it refers us forward to something that will happen, that must happen. Myth will become r...

A History of the World in 10½ Chapters

Coffeehouses were centers of self-education, literary and philosophical speculation, commercial innovation, and, in some cases, political fermentation. But above all they were clearinghouses for news and gossip, linked by the circulation of customers...

A History of the World in 6 Glasses

A billion hours ago, human life appeared on earth. A billion minutes ago, Christianity emerged. A billion seconds ago, the Beatles changed music. A billion Coca-Colas ago was yesterday morning. —Robert Goizueta, chief executive of the Coca-Cola Com...

A History of the World in 6 Glasses

The Philippines and the U.S. have had a strong relationship with each other for a very long time now. We have a shared history. We have shared values, democracy, freedom, and we have been in all the wars together in modern history, the World War, Sec...

Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

One of the newest figures to emerge on the world stage in recent years is the social entrepreneur. This is usually someone who burns with desire to make a positive social impact on the world, but believes that the best way of doing it is, as the sayi...

The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century

For all history up to the end of the Cold War, summit meetings were historic and dramatic occasions, when leaders who controlled the destiny of much of the world met to change the world.

Conrad Black

It felt like being in the center of the world, and I felt like I was a witness to history and I knew that the whole world was watching on television. So, I could feel the collective consciousness of the world focused on this little strip of land call...

Krist Novoselic

Pearl Harbor caused our Nation to wholeheartedly commit to winning World War II, changing the course of our Nation's history and the world's future.

Joe Baca

What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are doing to ourselves and to one another.

Forest Primeval: The Natural History of an Ancient Forest

I’m thankful that everything sweet is sweet because it is finite.

Four Seasons in Rome: On Twins, Insomnia, and the Biggest Funeral in the History of the World

A labyrinth is a symbolic journey . . . but it is a map we can really walk on, blurring the difference between map and world.

Wanderlust: A History of Walking

Americans worship technology. It's an inherent trait in the national zeitgeist.

World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War

It's one of those unforgettable moments that happen as a child, when you discover that all along the world has been betraying you.

The History of Love

there are two types of people in the world: those who prefer to be sad among others, and those who prefer to be sad alone.

The History of Love

Teaching the history of the British Empire links in with that of the world: for better and for worse, the Empire made us what we are, forming our national identity. A country that does not understand its own history is unlikely to respect that of oth...

Antony Beevor