Quotes About Being A Historian

#1. I lay no claim, it should be clear, to being a historian. So in my books, the intimate and personal have been intertwined inextricably with the broad and historical.

Khaled Hosseini

#2. Committed partisans are generally the most knowledgeable voters, independents the least. And the more political knowledge people have, the more apt they are to discuss politics with people who agree with, and reinforce, them.

George Will

#3. By knowing things that exist, you can know that which does not exist.

Miyamoto Musashi

#4. Dissection," writes historian Ruth Richardson in Death, Dissection, and the Destitute, "requires in its practitioners the effective suspension or suppression of many normal physical and emotional responses to the wilful mutilation of the body of another human being.

Anonymous

#5. Pantagruelism is a certain gaitey of the spirit consisting in a disdain for the hazards of fortune.

Francois Rabelais

#6. Mr. Rip Wan winkle, be a star that twinkle.

Aporva Kala

#7. (The historian) was able to disapprove without being astonished. She could reject and still understand.

Sam Wineburg

#8. That's one of the central problems of history, isn't it, sir? The question of subjective versus objective interpretation, the fact that we need to know the history of the historian in order to understand the version that is being put in front of us.

Julian Barnes

#9. Our rulers rule by consent, which means that we like having them as rulers, if they do what we want them to do.

Terry Pratchett

#10. But I'm a historian. I wasn't interested in just being a producer, I was interested in doing research and presenting that research to a general public.

Bernice Johnson Reagon

#11. I was at one point thinking about being an art historian, when I was in school. And not being an artist, but I decided I was going to be an artist but I'm really mad for art history and the masters mostly.

Robert Barry

#12. True history being a mixture of all things, the true historian mingles in everything.

Victor Hugo

#13. I am a historian. With the exception of being a wife and mother, it is who I am. And there is nothing I take more seriously.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

#14. FRIENDS

Looking out the window,
I see you looking in.
You are the sunshine,
That fills my soul.

Giorge Leedy

#15. I love my little sister to death

Michael Trevino

#16. -We've been dating for three years!He's my boyfriend!
-You have stronger feelings for Baz and Simon!
-Duh, they're Baz and Simon, like that's even fair ...

Rainbow Rowell

#17. You can't take the New York out of the girl. It's like a little country girl coming to the big city.

Randee Heller

#18. A Seattle lawyer once interrupted his lengthy cross-examination of a witness and exclaimed, "Your Honor, one of the jurors is asleep." "You put him to sleep," replied the judge. "Suppose you wake him up."

James Keller