Famous Historical Sayings

#1. One of the many troubles of growing older is that it gets progressively harder to find a famous historical figure who hadn't yet amounted to anything by the time he was your age.

Sebastian Horsley

#2. One trouble with growing old is that it gets progressively tougher to find a famous historical figure, who didn't amount to much when he was your age.

E.W. Howe

#3. A woman's biography - with about eight famous historical exceptions - so often turns out to be the story of a man and the woman who helped his career.

Catherine Drinker Bowen

#4. At the time when this famous historical battle was fought in Kosovo, the people were looking at the stars, expecting aid from them. Now, six centuries later, they are looking at the stars again, waiting to conquer them.

Slobodan Milosevic

#5. I'm good at disguising my feelings.

Michelle Pfeiffer

#6. That was the wonderful thing about historical novels, one met so many famous people. It was like reading a very old copy of Hello! magazine.

Edward St. Aubyn

#7. Anyone young, famous and beautiful who dies young is forever frozen in time and fascinating to all of us.

Deb Stratas

#8. We need only travel enough to give our intellects an airing.

Henry David Thoreau

#9. Luceo Non Uro. 'I shine, not burn,

Diana Gabaldon

#10. Let me say this: I think men are a full-time job, and I'm young and I already have one job. I'm just focused on my career.

Chanel Iman

#11. Life whispers to you all the time ... from the time you wake up in the morning and with every single experience ...

Oprah Winfrey

#12. If, as Max Weber contended, science, modernity and rationalism have disenchanted the world and swept it clean of gods, spirits and magic (or, at least, problematised believing in them), then psychedelics offer a potential way out of the ensuing existential impasse. -Andy Letcher

Cameron Adams

#13. Both the old and young Karamakates are portrayed by indigenous men, neither of them professional actors. The old shaman is played by Antonio Bolivar Salvador.

Tom Cole

#14. It is so friendly so simply friendly and though inevitable not a sadness and though occurring not a shock.

Gertrude Stein

#15. When I was seven years old, I fell in love with a series published by Bobbs-Merrill called 'The Childhood of Famous Americans.' In it, historical figures like Clara Barton, Nancy Hanks, Elias Howe, Patrick Henry, and dozens more came to life for me as children.

Ann Hood

#16. When I was growing up I loved reading historical fiction, but too often it was about males; or, if it was about females, they were girls who were going to grow up to be famous like Betsy Ross, Clara Barton, or Harriet Tubman. No one ever wrote about plain, normal, everyday girls.

Kathryn Lasky

#17. Oddly enough, my favorite genre is not fiction. I'm attracted by primary sources that are relevant to historical questions of interest to me, by famous old books on philosophy or theology that I want to see with my own eyes, by essays on contemporary science, by the literatures of antiquity.

Marilynne Robinson

#18. Besides walking, I do stretches every day. I had back trouble starting when I turned 40, so I have to stretch out my muscles every day.

Anne Graham Lotz

#19. Dickens must have first heard his famous The law is an ass quote from a woman. And she was damned right, for all the good it did her.

Moriah Densley

#20. Man is a genius when he is dreaming.

Akira Kurosawa

#21. Without Liberty, Law loses its nature and its name, and becomes oppression. Without Law, Liberty also loses its nature and its name, and becomes licentiousness.

James Q. Wilson

#22. Experience proves that in this life peace and satisfaction are had, not by the listless but by those who are fervent in God's service. And rightly so. For in their effort to overcome themselves and to rid themselves of self-love, they rid themselves of the roots of all passion and unrest.

Saint Ignatius