Top 1200 English History Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

Black history is a series of missing chapters from British history. I'm trying to put those bits back in.

Art history is less explosive than the rest of history, so it sinks faster into the pulverized regions of time.

Human history has become too much a matter of dogma taught by 'professionals' in ivory towers as though it's all fact. Actually, much of human history is up for grabs. The further back you go, the more that the history that's taught in the schools and universities begins to look like some kind of faerie story.

I think any period in history can be adapted into interesting fiction, as long as you approach the actual history with respect.

I can remember picking up weighty tomes on the history of science and the history of philosophy and reading those when I was small.

One of the things important about history is to remember the true history.

History is made and preserved by and for particular classes of people. A camera in some hands can preserve an alternate history.

I think that if you are sticking to the text, essentially, you're not trying to write your own version of it. I mean, of course, it is your own version of it. And every translator would probably have a different version. But I think that that's what keeps the writers from being individual in English. They may be my English, but I don't think that Ferrante sounds like Levi.

I acknowledge Mike Leigh and Ken Loach. They are prostlytizers of English socialism preaching to the converted and telling us what we already know. Cinema is best served away from documentary neo-realism. I come from a tradition of post-post-Italian neo-realism in England, where we've produced the best television in the world. But to paraphrase Truffaut, the English have no visual imagination.

From the Latin word "imponere", base of the obsolete English "impone" and translated as "impress" in modern English, Nordic hackers have coined the terms "imponator" (a device that does nothing but impress bystanders, referred to as the "imponator effect") and "imponade" (that "goo" that fills you as you get impressed with something - from "marmelade", often referred as "full of imponade", always ironic).

A good history covers not only what was done, but the thought that went into the action. You can read the history of a country through its actions.

Culture is simultaneously the fruit of a people's history and a determinant of history.

Every civilization sees itself as the center of the world and writes its history as the central drama of human history.

When you go back and look at American history, it's not terribly different from Canadian history. If you weren't self-reliant on the prairie, you wouldn't survive.

Being someone who had had a very difficult childhood, a very difficult adolescence - it had to do with not quite poverty, but close. It had to do with being brought up in a family where no one spoke English, no one could read or write English. It had to do with death and disease and lots of other things. I was a little prone to depression.

I was very interested in history, but I also thought, you know, history is not that interesting sometimes, and it can feel a bit medicinal.

Drag racing has played a big role in In-N-Out's history, and it is also an important part of my family history.

You will hear people say the C-word. Except, it's a regional language: in British English, c - t has much less of an inflammatory sense than it does in North American English. You can hear someone on British TV called "a c - ting monkey" or a man being called a c - t. The particular fascination of profanity is how culturally specific it is and how it evolves.

The history of a revolution is for us first of all a history of the forcible entrance of the masses into the realm of rulership over their own destiny.

Shakespearean words, foreign words, slang and dialect and made-up phrases from kids on the street corner: English has room for them all. And writers - not just literary writers, but popular writers as well - breathe air into English and keep it lively by making it their own, not by adhering to some style manual that gets handed out to college Freshmen in a composition class.

There are two histories : official history, lying, and then secret history, where you find the real causes of events.

We shall not understand the history of men and other times unless we ourselves are alive to the requirements which that history satisfied.

As an author of narrative history, I read a lot of history books.

Remember the lessons of history - if we don't learn from history, we're bound to repeat it.

History teaches us that man learns nothing from history

Happy nations have no history. History is the study of mankind's misfortune.

She had always been fond of history, and here [in Rome] was history in the stones of the street and the atoms of the sunshine.

I really feel sorry for kids who aren't interested in history - recent history, either, because it is this that made us what we are.

We can't let extremists on any side hijack or rewrite history because those who don't study history are doomed to repeat it.

Men need history; it helps them to have an idea of who they are. But history, like sanctity, can reside in the heart; it is enough that there is something there.

I think history has less of an impact on current times than the stories that we tell ourselves about that history [do].

Poets often are dealing with history and are thinking about the way history moves across us, and we move in it.

The history of missions is the history of answered prayer. It is the key to the whole mission problem. All human means are secondary.

History can't be left to fend for itself. For when it comes to history and beliefs and values, we turn our future on the lathe of the past.

If the only significant history of human thought were to be written, it would have to be the history of its successive regrets and its impotences.

Nixon's full term was one of the most successful in U.S. history, which is why he was re-elected by the largest plurality in the country's history.

Well, I'm a history buff, anyway. I love learning about different periods, especially in American history. I'm a fan.

American history and the history of baseball are bound up together: our racial politics can be described and traced through it.

Natural history is not equivalent to biology. Biology is the study of life. Natural history is the study of animals and plants-of organisms. Biology thus includes natural history, and much else besides.

History happens as soon as I pick up my coffee cup - it happened 30 seconds ago. It's history.

When we look at history, we see history is made up of the heroes of their times. Yet, somehow we miss this when we put on the lens of the Scriptures.

The history of agriculture is the history of humans breeding seeds and animals to produce traits we want in our crops and livestock.

Ted Kennedy will go down in history as one of the giants of the U.S. Senate and one the most accomplished legislators in American history.

The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles.

History is not usually what has happened. History is what some people have thought to be significant.

To have a sense of history one must consider oneself a piece of history.

The history of our era is the nauseating and repulsive history of the crucifixion of the procreative body for the glorification ofthe spirit.

American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, especially of the history of Europe.

Money, titles, belts - you're not going to take with you when you die. History stays forever. That's why I decided to go for history.

History isn't like that. History unravels gently, like an old sweater. It has been patched and darned many times, reknitted to suit different people, shoved in a box under the sink of censorship to be cut up for the dusters of propaganda, yet it always - eventually - manages to spring back into its old familar shape. History has a habit of changing the people who think they are changing it. History always has a few tricks up its frayed sleeve. It's been around a long time.

I cannot understand why some people try to write a history of photography that is separated from the history of modern art.

Religion has for too long been placed on the back burner of history, when it may be one of the driving forces in history.

All history has been a history of class struggles between dominated classes at various stages of social development.

Love frees us to embrace all of our history, the history in which all things are being made new.

I love history. It was the only thing I did well at in school. I'm not ashamed to admit that I was not a good student but I was great at history.

The history of mankind, the history of salvation, passes by way of the family.

The embrace of present and past time, in which English antiquarianism becomes a form of alchemy, engenders a strange timelessness. It is as if the little bird which flew through the Anglo-Saxon banqueting hall, in Bede's Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum, gained the outer air and became the lark ascending in Vaughan Williams's orchestral setting. The unbroken chain is that of English music itself.

I think if we don't understand history, if we don't keep referring back to it, we become complacent. And complacency, as we all know, it leads to repeating history.

So many people of color who made major contributions to American history have been trapped in the purgatory of history.

I remember reading 'The Grapes of Wrath' in high school in 1983. My family had immigrated to the U.S. three years before, and I had spent the better part of the first two years learning English. John Steinbeck's book was the first book I read in English where I had an 'Aha!' moment, namely in the famed turtle chapter.