Historical Document Quotes

#1. The New Testament is not a historical document.

Reza Aslan

#2. A novel is not, after all, a historical document, but a way to travel through the human heart.

Julia Alvarez

#3. Your woodlot is, in fact, an historical document which faithfully records your personal philosophy.

Aldo Leopold

#4. For me, the original play becomes an historical document: This is where I was when I wrote it, and I have to move on now to something else.

August Wilson

#5. Now, whenever you read any historical document, you always evaluate it in light of the historical context.

Josh McDowell

#6. Mr. Speaker, the fact of the matter is that the Ten Commandments are a historical document that contains moral, ethical, and legal truisms that any person of any religion or even an atheist can recognize and appreciate.

Cliff Stearns

#7. Oral history interviews allow us to document and chronicle people's stories; stories that might otherwise not be included in the historical record.

Patricia Leavy

#8. The unknown energy that can help humanity is that which lies hidden in the child.

Maria Montessori

#9. At the Last Supper how come no one sat on the other side of the table? See, I think originally there were people sitting on the other side but those were the people going, You know, the air conditioning hits me right on the back on the neck.

Gilbert Gottfried

#10. So we got there at 6 a.m. We'd be shooting by 6:45. We wouldn't break for lunch, we'd just pass food around all day. And we would just rock and roll 'til 4, then Matty Libatique, our great cinematographer, would say, 'Outta light, guys' - and that was it.

Joel Schumacher

#11. Too often it is fear that guides our actions when compassion would better serve.

Dawn Hammill

#12. I have my dad's shape. No booty.

Queen Latifah

#13. Robert Redford ... has turned almost alarmingly blond-he's gone past platinum, he must be into plutonium; his hair is coordinated with his teeth.

Pauline Kael

#14. I have never made a game that wasn't explicitly about empowering players to tell their own story.

Warren Spector

#15. I doubt if he ever confronted and acknowledged his own deeper motivations, except when they were as pure as spring water.

Dan Simmons