Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" I love my people's history. I feel a huge responsibility to tell the stories of my past and my ancestors' past. "

Related Quotes:

" Through all of history mankind has ingested psychedelic substances. Those substances exist to put you in touch with spirits beyond yourself, with the creator, with the creative impulse of the planet. "

" If some peoples pretend that history or geography gives them the right to subjugate other races, nations, or peoples, there can be no peace. "

Ludwig von Mises

" My only advice is, follow your dream and do whatever you like to do the most. I chose journalism because I wanted to be in the places where history was being made. "

" History will dictate what my legacy is. And 'maverick' is fine, because I am. "

" Rome - the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar. "

" The making of an American begins at the point where he himself rejects all other ties, any other history, and himself adopts the vesture of his adopted land. "

" While I was thinking about the next film to do, I was also reading this book by Diane Ackerman called 'The Natural History of the Senses' - an anthropological and sociological look at the senses. But it also has this great sense of enthusiasm. "

" I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power. "

" I shall always be grateful for this curious love of history, allowing me to spend a lifetime looking back into the past, allowing me to learn from these large figures about the struggle for meaning for life. "

Doris Kearns Goodwin

" Well I teach in the History of Consciousness Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz. So that's my primary work. I lecture on various campuses and in various communities across the country and other parts of the world. "

" I'm a schizophrenic writer. "

" One of the things we tell ourselves as African-Americans is if we work hard, play by the rules, we do start back a little ways, but if we can be twice as good, somehow we can escape history and heritage and legacy. "

Ta-Nehisi Coates

" We've persevered because of a belief we share with the Iraqi people - a belief that out of the ashes of war, a new beginning could be born in this cradle of civilization. Through this remarkable chapter in the history of the United States and Iraq, we have met our responsibility. Now, it's time to turn the page. "

" Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars. "

" History is malleable. A new cache of diaries can shed new light, and archeological evidence can challenge our popular assumptions. "

" The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history. "

" If you lead with the anger, it will turn off the audience. And what I want is the audience to engage with the material and to listen and then to ask questions. I think that 'Ruined' was very successful at doing that. "

" In the business of war, the role of women is really to maintain normalcy and ensure that there is cultural continuity. "

" Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. "

Barbara Tuchman

" The theatre should reflect America as it's lived in today. And that is a multicultural America. "

" It's something that you pick up at a history class in college, the idea that history and time is something to which we can't even hold a candle to. We, as human beings, are just a small element in the overarching sweep of narrative history. That really had a profound effect on me, that realization. "

" Ultrasound is instrumental in the fight against abortion precisely because it allows women to make an informed choice by shedding light in a place which, for most of its history, has been shrouded in secrecy. "

" A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind. "

John Maynard Keynes

" I let the American people down. "

Richard M. Nixon

" What does the artist do? He draws connections. He ties the invisible threads between things. He dives into history, be it the history of mankind, the geological history of the Earth or the beginning and end of the manifest cosmos. "

" Winning the second Pulitzer firmly places me in conversation with this culture. "

" It would be unwise for the modern Republican Party to come across as hostile to immigration. That has been the losing position in American history for 200 years. "

Grover Norquist

" By looking into more details of American history, we can make more sense of what's happening today. "

Christoph Waltz

" We used to root for the Indians against the cavalry, because we didn't think it was fair in the history books that when the cavalry won it was a great victory, and when the Indians won it was a massacre. "

" The majority see the obstacles; the few see the objectives; history records the successes of the latter, while oblivion is the reward of the former. "

Alfred A. Montapert