History Quotes - Page 11

Although the Irish language is connected with the many recollections that twine around the hearts of Irishmen, yet the superior utility of the English tongue, as the medium of all modern communication, is so great that I can witness without a sigh the gradual decline of the Irish language.

In a world where change is inevitable and continuous, the need to achieve that change without violence is essential for survival.

It was a needed instrument to spread abroad the truth of a new gospel to woman, and I could not withhold my hand to stay the work I had begun. I saw not the end from the beginning and dreamed where to my propositions to society would lead me.

The miracle drugs (neuroleptics) cause the worst plague of brain damage in medical history.

Be black, shine, aim high.

Error has never approached my spirit.

You don't change the course of history by turning the faces of portraits to the wall.

Although in our country the Chief Magistrate must almost of necessity be chosen by a party and stand pledged to its principles and measures, yet in his official action he should not be the President of a part only, but of the whole people of the United States.

To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.

Being a princess isn't all it's cracked up to be.

Yesterday is history Tomorrow's a mystery

Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.

The history of astronomy is a history of receding horizons.

The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not always just, and when they wish to be just, they are no longer strong.

It is striking how history, when resting on the memory of men, always touches the bounds of mythology.

If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence.

In expressing briefly my views upon an important subject which has recently agitated the nation..., I fervently hope that the question is at rest and that no sectional or ambitious or fanatical excitement may again threaten the durability of our institutions.

All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.

History is a vision of God's creation on the move.

The totality of our so-called knowledge or beliefs, from the most casual matters of geography and history to the profoundest laws of atomic physics or even of pure mathematics and logic, is a man-made fabric which impinges on experience only along the edges. Or, to change the figure, total science is like a field of force whose boundary conditions are experience.

History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions; the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology.

Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.

Italy is only a geographical expression.

No time to marry, no time to settle down; I'm a young woman, and I ain't done runnin' around.

The forgetting of the history of marginalized groups is both a cause and effect of their marginalization.