Oscar Handlin Quotes

#1. It is quiet, and when the belling tower strikes the late hour, it doesn't break the silence so much as it underpins it.

Patrick Rothfuss

#2. What I like about Britain is that I can live a normal life here.

Kevin Spacey

#3. A tired exclamation mark is a question mark.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

#4. In times of shrinking expectations, ... everyone feels like a victim and pushes away outsiders to defend his own corner.

Oscar Handlin

#5. Fiery the Angels rose, and as they rose deep thunder roll'd
Around their shores, indignant burning with the fires of Orc ...

William Blake

#6. The historian, predisposed to verbal evidence, who reads about rather than looks at objects, becomes dependent upon secondhand impressions and is helpless when critics disagree or interpose their own extraneous judgments between the work and the viewer.

Oscar Handlin

#7. Poverty was a dog whose teeth sank deep.

Oscar Handlin

#8. In America a bread never came without complications.

Oscar Handlin

#9. Our major obligation is not to mistake slogans for solutions.

Edward R. Murrow

#10. Once I thought to write a history of the immigrants in America. Then I discovered that the immigrants were American history.

Oscar Handlin

#11. God sends children for another purpose than merely to keep up the race
to enlarge our hearts, to make us unselfish, and full of kindly sympathies and affections.

Mary Howitt

#12. In a culture where life was short, decisions had to be made in a hurry. You would never have enough time, might never live to see the consequences of a wrong action - or a correct one. On Query, it was different.

L.E. Modesitt Jr.

#13. The condition of man is to till the soil; there is no other wholeness to his existence.

Oscar Handlin