Top 1200 Modern History Quotes & Sayings - Page 13

There's bad in everything. I dislike people misusing something that I love so much. It goes beyond the money. It goes beyond all of that and the glory. I love what I've done and I just can't stand to see what they're doing to it. But I've learned to live with it because that's what they've done. They've come in with the modern sounds. I call it modern pop. It's not country anymore.

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.

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

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

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.

The modern world has created airports and hospitals and put 10,000 songs in our pocket. It has built gleaming buildings and computers and advances and innovations that blow our minds. But we have soul, and spirit, and consciousness, and the modern world hasn't done so well at helping us name and understand what it means to be thriving and fully alive with a full heart.

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

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

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.

When we look at modern man, we have to face the fact...that modern man suffers from a kind of poverty of the spirit, which stands in glaring contrast to his scientific and technological abundance; We've learned to fly the air like birds, we've learned to swim the seas like fish, and yet we haven't learned to walk the Earth as brothers and sisters.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

For out of this modern civilization economic royalists carved new dynasties. New kingdoms were built upon concentration of control over material things. Through new uses of corporations, banks and securities, new machinery of industry and agriculture, of labor and capital - all undreamed of by the Fathers - the whole structure of modern life was impressed into this royal service.

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.

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

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

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

If I were a physician, and if I were allowed to prescribe just one remedy for all the ills of the modern world, I would prescribe silence. For even if the Word of God were proclaimed in the modern world, how could one hear it with so much noise? Therefore, create silence.

The most profound question is, "What would I risk dying for?" The natural answer is "for my family." But for most of history, we didn't live in families. We lived in small communities that gave us our sense of safety and place in the world, so the natural answer would be "for my people." The blessing and the tragedy of modern life is that we don't need our community to survive anymore. When we lose that idea, we lose a sense of who we are.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

The whole history of modern poetry is a continuous commentary on the short text of philosophy: every art should become science, and every science should become art; poetry and philosophy should be united.

For me, the value of a climb is the sum of three inseparable elements, all equally important: aesthetics, history, and ethics. Together they form the whole basis of my concept of alpinism. Some people see no more in climbing mountains than an escape from the harsh realities of modern times. This is not only uninformed but unfair. I don’t deny that there can be an element of escapism in mountaineering, but this should never overshadow its real essence, which is not escape but victory over your own human frailty.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

While I was drawn to the Renaissance, my first (unpublished) novels took place in modern times. When the subject of alchemy started creeping into my stories, an astute mentor observed that the bits about alchemy might fit better in another time frame. When I finally decided to weave the pieces about the medieval science into historical settings, a successful novel began to emerge. (And I dusted off that art history book, and put it to use once again.)

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.

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.

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.

[Comics is] one of the last havens for honesty when it comes to a reader's genuine response to art. Most of us, if we don't find any sympathy or pleasure, for example, in a modern painting, are likely to blame our own ignorance of the history and theory of painting. But nobody pretends to like a bad comic strip. Such harshness is necessary for any real truth to surface, I think, and for art to really contribute anything to life. Though I don't know. I could be wrong.

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

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

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

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.