Majored In History Quotes

#1. When I went to college, my goal was to be a college history teacher. I majored in history.

George J. Mitchell

#2. I just read history books. I read nothing but history books. They have so much to give; I wish I'd majored in history in college.

James McBride

#3. I spent a year at Southwestern Louisiana Institute, then transferred back to the University of Texas, where I majored in English and history.

Joe Jamail

#4. What India expected of its artists was craft skill, not creativity; conformity to tradition, not originality

Abraham Eraly

#5. Anybody who does not value what you have does not deserve your relationship.

Matthew Ashimolowo

#6. Had I not gone to Japan in 1986, had I stayed home and majored in English literature as I'd intended to do, I might indeed have become an investment banker, an outcome that perhaps would have proved a more severe blow to the health of the U.S. economy than to the history of the novel.

John Burnham Schwartz

#7. I love art, my mother is a painter, I majored in art history at Wellesley, and as I was having my second child I was thinking, what am I going to do, I have to do something to keep myself sane, and I began to ask myself, what are the most horrific circumstances under which art can be created?

Alyson Richman

#8. The reader leaves his mark on the book, as the book leaves its mark on the reader.

Gabrielle Dubois

#9. The rules!" shouted Ralph, "you're breaking the rules!"
"Who cares?

William Golding

#10. He told Trout about people he'd heard of in the area who grabbed live copperheads and rattlesnakes during church services, to show how much they believed that Jesus would protect them.
"Takes all kinds of people to make up a world," said Trout.

Kurt Vonnegut

#11. How is it possible that suffering that is neither my own nor of my concern should immediately affect me as though it were my own, and with such force that is moves me to action?

Arthur Schopenhauer

#12. I majored in Southern history in college, and much of my early work at my first job - as a staff writer at 'Memphis' magazine - focused on race relations.

Hampton Sides

#13. My wife, she likes to have things uncluttered, and if something is missing, then one has to be very careful not to ask her if it was thrown out - you have to ask her simply where it might be.

Kyle Chandler

#14. I can get a firestorm going anywhere in the United States by saying 'O.J.'

F. Lee Bailey

#15. I think Lindsay Kemp really introduced me to the work of Jean Genet, and through that, I kind of kept re-educating myself about other prose writers and poets.

David Bowie