Top 1200 Oral History Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

Oral myths are closer to the genetic conclusions than the often ambiguous scientific evidence of archaeology.

Paul's One Way Out is a fresh, intelligently arranged, and satisfyingly complete telling of the lengthy (and unlikely) history of the group that almost singlehandedly brought rock up to a level of jazz-like sophistication and virtuosity, introducing it as a medium worthy of the soloist's art. Oral histories can be tricky things: either penetrating, delivering information and backstories that get to the heart of how timeless music was made. Or too often, they lie flat on the page, a random retelling of repeated facts and reheated yarns. I'm happy to say that Paul's is in that first category.

The bible belt is oral territory and therefore despised by the literati.

Music expresses feeling, that is to say, gives shape and habitation to feeling, not in space but in time. To the extent that music has a history that is more than a history of its formal evolution, our feelings must have a history too. Perhaps certain qualities of feeling that found expression in music can be recorded by being notated on paper, have become so remote that we can no longer inhabit them as feelings, can get a grasp of them only after long training in the history and philosophy of music, the philosophical history of music, the history of music as a history of the feeling soul.

It is also one of the pleasures of oral biography, in that the reader, rather than editor, is jury.

Do not feel trapped by the facts of your history. Your history is not some set of sacred facts. History is an interpretation, and your history is yours to interpret. To know the history and then reinterpret it gives you additional depth.

I met Mary [Hamill] in New York at my exhibition and when I told her about my oral history project she asked, "Would it be possible to incorporate visual art?" My sister stitches pillowcases, which led to Mary suggesting using cyanotype on them. I originally thought of the idea of pillowcases because when people get married, they have the bride and the groom lay their hands on each other's pillows while their relatives tie ribbons on their wrists. And then on the bed you usually have two pillows - one for yourself and one for your loved one - so when one is gone, one pillow remains.

Oral musical traditions are rooted in assured and scrupulous faith.

Because we are all of an oral tradition in our beginning histories, the voice of the poet in this particular society will be heard.

I've been working to see that mental health is raised in both oral and written question sessions in parliament.

The Courtroom is a battlefield, and oral argument requires a fair amount of verbal jousting and sparring with the Justices.

Reciprocating oral sex is, in general, a very good idea!

Universal history, the history of what man has accomplished in this world, is at bottom the History of the Great Men who have worked here.

Most of us, I think, are conscious of history swirling around outside the door, but when we're in the house, we're usually not dealing with history. We're not thinking about history.

Nobody as of today can produce any oral or written statement from me talking about changing the constitution.

I had bad skin growing up and I swear by oral supplements.

I was always pretty interested in my history. Not just the history of the Caribbean, the history of my people, but all walks of life.

The self is an oral society in which the present is constantly running a dialogue with the past and the future inside of one skin.

London' is a gallery of sensation of impressions. It is a history of London in a thematic rather than a chronological sense with chapters of the history of smells, the history of silence, and the history of light. I have described the book as a labyrinth, and in that sense in complements my description of London itself.

We love dirty oral on the Down Low, but no going steady.

The moment I realised that my history was an excuse for nothing, was the moment I was freed from my history. The great danger of history is that we use it as an excuse and remain trapped in it. I cannot blame my history for anything, and therefore I have to have high standards for myself.

Environmental history fit[s] into the framework of New Left history. [It is] history "from the bottom up," except that here the exploited element [is] the biota and the land itself.

The subject-matter of Archaeology is threefold-the Oral, the Written and the Monumental.

My personal feeling is that oral sex is against nature.

Black history isn’t a separate history. This is all of our history, this is American history, and we need to understand that. It has such an impact on kids and their values and how they view black people.

I don’t know much about history, and I wouldn’t give a nickel for all the history in the world. It means nothing to me. History is more or less bunk. It's tradition. We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's damn is the history we make today.

I would then go on to say that Homer, as we now know, was working in what they call an oral tradition.

When I went to high school - that's about as far as I got - reading my U.S. history textbook, well, I got the history of the ruling class. I got the history of the generals and the industrialists and the presidents that didn't get caught. How 'bout you? I got all of the history of the people who owned the wealth of the country, but none of the history of the people that created it.

You know the worst thing about oral sex ? The view.

'London' is a gallery of sensation of impressions. It is a history of London in a thematic rather than a chronological sense with chapters of the history of smells, the history of silence, and the history of light. I have described the book as a labyrinth, and in that sense in complements my description of London itself.

I am opposing it with an idea of the history of philosophy as a history of philosophers, that is, a history of mortal, fragile and limited creatures like you and I. I am against the idea of clean, clearly distinct epochs in the history of philosophy or indeed in anything else. I think that history is always messy, contingent, plural and material. I am against the constant revenge of idealism in how we think about history.

There has always been interest in certain phases and aspects of history - military history is a perennial bestseller, the Civil War, that sort of thing. But I think that there is a lot of interest in historical biography and what's generally called narrative history: history as story-telling.

The history of science, like the history of all human ideas, is a history of irresponsible dreams, of obstinacy, and of error.

Short forms are returning online. Interactivity is coming back; it was always there in oral storytelling.

I know I'm not a great writer. I'm an extremely gifted oral communicator, but when it comes to writing, I'm just a beginner.

I feel history is more of a story than a lesson. I know this idea of presentism: this idea of constantly evoking the past to justify the present moment. A lot of people will tell you, "history is how we got here." And learning from the lessons of history. But that's imperfect. If you learn from history you can do things for all the wrong reasons.

How would you know a Cork footballer? He's the one who thinks that oral sex is just talking about it.

For too long, this country has been suffering a great moral and oral decay in spirit and incisors.

There is only one history of any importance, and it is the history of what you once believed in, and the history of what you came to believe in.

History is a commentary on the various and continuing incapabilities of men. What is history? History is women following behind with the bucket.

There is no history of mankind, there are only many histories of all kinds of aspects of human life. And one of these is the history of political power. This is elevated into the history of the world.

If you really want to be part of something and you have that much passion towards it, you'll know enough to research it and find the history of it; and history is so important, history is everything.

History has never seen Emmitt Smith. I don't care what has come before me. That's why they call it history you create new history.

I come out of a strong oral tradition in the South.

You know, there are ways not to perform oral sex if you didn't want to do it.

All who affirm the use of violence admit it is only a means to achieve justice and peace. But peace and justice are nonviolence...the final end of history. Those who abandon nonviolence have no sense of history. Rathy they are bypassing history, freezing history, betraying history.

There's a lot we should be able to learn from history. And yet history proves that we never do. In fact, the main lesson of history is that we never learn the lessons of history. This makes us look so stupid that few people care to read it. They'd rather not be reminded. Any good history book is mainly just a long list of mistakes, complete with names and dates. It's very embarrassing.

For the record, I believe that women and their doctors should have access to oral contraception when desired by the patient and medically appropriate.

History, when they do it, is ancient history, and they sensationalize even that. Contemporary history is virtually ignored on television.

I am quite unsatisfied by the distinctions between the oral and literate.

All of history misses out on the history of the soul. Human passions are so often not included in history.

One of the things I know from the study of history is that history surprises you. History is not written. It's not inevitable.The victory of evil is not certain.

The colonists usually say that it was they who brought us into history: today we show that this is not so. They made us leave history, our history, to follow them, right at the back, to follow the progress of their history.

Oral Roberts was a man of God and a great friend in ministry. I loved him as a brother.

When we approach history, we are dealing with a conglomeration of irrational continua. Those who deal with history by nonrational processes are the ones who make history, the actors in it.

If, in schools, we keep teaching that history is divided into American history and Chinese history and Russian history and Australian history, we're teaching kids that they are divided into tribes. And we're failing to teach them that we also, as human beings, share problems that we need to work together with.

The world's holy texts are built on ancient oral traditions.

Not unlike our country's history, my personal history was founded upon an unfortunate history of racial conflict between black and white.

We know only a single science, the science of history. History can be contemplated from two sides, it can be divided into the history of nature and the history of mankind. However, the two sides are not to be divided off; as long as men exist the history of nature and the history of men are mutually conditioned.

Receiving oral sex from an ugly person is like rock climbing; you should never look down.