#history

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #history




It will not do to investigate the subject of religion too closely, as it is apt to lead to infidelity.


Abraham Lincoln


#history #lincoln #religion

As an actor, you have to have your history.


Nora Dunn


#history #you #your

I have always felt that this story is universal. When I began to understand the details of the history, I felt that the most compelling aspect was not what happened, but what continues to happen and how it is denied.


Atom Egoyan


#aspect #began #compelling #continues #denied

I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but the living strength and majesty of the Commonwealth and Empire; of societies old and new; of lands and races different in history and origins but all, by God's Will, united in spirit and in aim.


Queen Elizabeth II


#annals #behind #commonwealth #different #empire

Madam President, speaking here in Dublin Castle it is impossible to ignore the weight of history, as it was yesterday when you and I laid wreaths at the Garden of Remembrance.


Queen Elizabeth II


#dublin #garden #here #history #i

Black women all over the world should re-unite and re-examine the way history has portrayed us.


Buchi Emecheta


#history #over #portrayed #re-examine #should

The history of liberty has largely been the history of the observance of procedural safeguards.


Felix Frankfurter


#history #largely #liberty #observance #procedural

I don't care what is written," Meyer Landsman says. "I don't care what supposedly got promised to some sandal-wearing idiot whose claim to fame is that he was ready to cut his own son's throat for the sake of a hare-brained idea. I don't care about red heifers and patriarchs and locusts. A bunch of old bones in the sand. My homeland is in my hat. It's in my ex-wife's tote bag.


Michael Chabon


#home #identity #jewish #nationality #religion

Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.


Gustave Flaubert


#history #ignorance #our #own #slander

If you think you have it tough, read history books.


Bill Maher


#history #history books #read #story books #think