Quotes of: World-history Keyword

Right around the end of the fifties, college students and young people in general, began to realize that this music was almost like a history of our country - this music contained the real history of the people of this country.

Jackson Browne

I tend to like to read history - recent history, because I find that much more intriguing than just a writer's imagination.

Jesse Ventura

When you have a novel set in a fictional history, you still should get your history right.

Kurt Busiek

It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving - as if it were an individual person - its own ends. History is nothing but the activity of men in pursuit of their ends.

Karl Marx

A trillion dollars spent, 2,000 American lives lost - Afghanistan is the longest war in American history. But you don't hear a word about it.

Michael Baumgartner

Unlike any other leader in modern American history, we are led today by a president that has decided to pit Americans against each other.

Marco Rubio

In every election in American history both parties have their cliches. The party that has the cliches that ring true wins.

Newt Gingrich

The notion of 'history from below' hit the history profession in England very hard around the time I came to Oxford in the early 1960s.

Robert Darnton

In fact, there are more homeowners today than ever before in the history of our Nation and more minority homeowners than ever before in the history of our Nation.

Todd Tiahrt

We look to the history of the time of framing and to the intervening history of interpretation. But the ultimate question must be, what do the words of the text mean in our time.

William J. Brennan, Jr.

It is needless to say how great has been the influence of the doctrine of Evolution, or rather perhaps of the method of investigation to which it has given birth, upon the study of history, especially the history of institutions.

Goldwin Smith

For long, history was mainly political history, and historical narrative was confined to an account of the most important crises in political life, or to an account of wars and great generals.

Michael Rostovtzeff

We are now in the Me Decade - seeing the upward roll of the third great religious wave in American history.

Tom Wolfe

Evolution on the large scale unfolds, like much of human history, as a succession of dynasties.

Edmund Beecher Wilson

Many people read History books but it takes just a few people to LEAD the cause that will shape the course of HISTORY.

Fela Durotoye

It was the greatest, most intricate, most ingenious and most costly rescue mission in all of human history.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

...And so history gets written to prove the legend is ridiculous. But soon the legend replaces the history because the legend is more interesting.

John Brouwer

Home gives you something no other place can... your history. Home is where your history begins.

Billie Letts

We have to remember, sometimes the most important history is the history we're making today.

J.K. Rowling

Myth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how reliable that is.

Joseph Campbell

A history of literature, unlike history as such, ought to list only victories, for its defeats are no victory for anyone.

Julien Gracq