Top 1200 History Of Fashion Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

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

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

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.

It's a secret language, known to all different people, in different ways, that enables them to read a subliminal message without realising they're reading it. It affects people on many levels, and even people who think they're not into fashion, or reject fashion are then being informed just in the case of rejecting it. The fact that they had to react against it was a conscious decision.

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.

I don't really know much about the fashion world. I have a few stylist friends that help me find stuff. So they know all about the vintage fashion world; I just kind of describe to them what I want and they find a lot of it for me.

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

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

My favorite thing is talking to people about history - that's what I like doing. The sort of history I do isn't just for professional historians.

History is wonderful. We have so much we can learn if we would quit making ideology out of history, and just deal with what happened.

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

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.

History shows that nations are more fragile than their citizens think. No nation in history has survived the ravages of time.

Only the history of free peoples is worth our attention; the history of men under a despotism is merely a collection of anecdotes.

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

The 1950s and 1960s had been a period of enormous growth, the highest in American history, maybe in economic history.

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.

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.

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

When I look at pictures from when I was younger, I think, "Holy crap, what the hell was I wearing?" I've made it a real mission to fully understand what fashion is all about. I love going to these shows because I love seeing creativity. So when I get to meet these fashion designers, I'm kind of like, "Where did you get the idea to make this? What were you thinking?" Some of that stuff is so crazy and loud.

History repeats itself, and that's one of the things that's wrong with history.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

The history of ideas is the history of the grudges of solitary men.

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

My fascination with women's clothes began very early. My mother was a very fashionable woman. She also made her own clothes. She had these fashion magazines, and I would draw the women in them. My middle school art teacher suggested that I have a fashion drawing show.

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

Dear London, British fashion is a serious business. The British fashion industry is worth £21bn to the U.K. economy and employs 819,000 people across the country. With your help, we would like to see these numbers rise for the good of our industry, our talented designers, and our reputation worldwide.

I feel like fashion is becoming more inclusive, partly because the industry is finally getting that beauty exists in so many ways, and partly because thanks to Instagram, girls can create their own images, or remix images they're seeing in magazines and fashion shows, in ways that weren't possible before.

Whenever one pulls the trigger in order to rectify history's mistake, one lies. For history makes no mistakes, since it has no purpose.

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

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 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.

Through the years, Madam Walker has certainly become a staple of anything that has to do with black history, women's history and entrepreneurship.

I was a history major in school. I review the past a lot and think about music history and how culture unfolds.

The most important history is the history we make today.

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.

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.

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

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

We as women are trained to see ourselves as cheap imitations of fashion photographs, rather than seeing fashion photographs as cheap imitations of women

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.

What's so interesting is taking kind of all these horror tropes and really finding black history and American history to layer on top of it.

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

I have not always been wrong. History will bear me out, particularly as I shall write that history myself.

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.

I wanted to be into fashion, but I was never the kind of person who could keep up with fashion trends, and I could never style my hair the way everyone else's was - my hair was very thin, so I couldn't do, like, the sprayed bangs everyone else was into.

I went to London Fashion Week for the first time, after I got the job [on The Collection ], and it completely changed the way I perceived it. I thought, "This is a far bigger operation than I ever expected, and it has far more worth than I ever gave it before." It definitely changed my view of the fashion world.

Because Fascism is a lie, it is condemned to literary sterility. And when it is past, it will have no history, except the bloody history of murder.

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

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.

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.

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

The history of my life is the history of the struggle between an overwhelming urge to write and a combination of circumstances bent on keeping me from it.