Top 37 Quotes About Historical Figures
#1. I visit English country churchyards where historical figures are buried.
Robin Gibb
#2. My friends in prison were mostly women more like myself: not historical figures who I did not relate to as peers, but hookers and addicts.
Patricia McConnell
#3. These great historical figures we admire for their conquests, their drive, their ambition, and the progress they are said to have been responsible for. But would we have not been better off as a species without them?
Adam Nevill
#4. Historical figures lose their center when they become anxious over the outcome of their actions.
Huston Smith
#5. A collection of masks, depicting historical figures in life and what I like to call the eternal repose.
Wes Craven
#6. 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
#7. Two historical figures play prominent roles in this book: a pair of priests who lived centuries apart but who were tied together by fate. During the seventeenth century, Father Athanasius Kircher was known as the Leonardo da Vinci of the Jesuit Order.
James Rollins
#8. If we look too closely at many historical figures, we won't like what we see.
Roxane Gay
#9. Small details are a vital part of allowing a reader to make an imaginative connection with long dead historical figures.
Sara Sheridan
#10. I feel like we are reintroducing historical figures, with the explorer Marco Polo and the grandson of Genghis Khan, Kublai Khan, the ruler of the Mongol empire, the trading place that everybody wanted to get involved in.
Benedict Wong
#11. I have a bee in my bonnet as to how few black historical figures one sees on film; incredible stories, stories from which we are living the legacy and which just don't get made.
David Oyelowo
#12. I find historical figures in general very tricky because you feel at times that you're serving two masters. Not only the arc and wonderful writing that comes with the show, but also the history of a person's life.
Vincent Piazza
#13. I can not give you the reference of Ram Chandar or Krishna, because they were not historical figures. I can not help it but to present to you the names of (Hazrat) Abu Bakar (RA) and (Hazrat) Umar Farooq (RA). They were leaders of a vast Empire, yet they lived a life of austerity.
Mahatma Gandhi
#14. Archival and published history does not always record personal relationships of historical figures, so characters must be invented to allow the subject to reveal their interior realm through intimate interaction.
Susan Vreeland
#15. although individuals and small events did affect the course of historical development, the influence of even major figures was strictly limited. In
Iain Pears
#16. You don't have to know people personally for them to be role models. Some of my most important role models were historical or literary figures that I only read about - never actually met.
John Wilson
#17. The dead know everything but they don't give a damn.
Joanne Harris
#18. You don't ever disappear. You just change. You leave. You move on. But you never disappear. Even when you think you want to.
Amy Harmon
#19. When you sing a song of love, you're actually giving something to yourself, too. You're singing and casting these affirmations of love out into the universe. It resonates in your body in a way that feels extraordinary.
Jason Mraz
#20. We have these instincts which defy all our wisdom and for which we never can frame any laws ... They are powers which are imperfectly developed in this life, but one cannot help the thought that the mystery of this world may be the commonplace of the next.
Sarah Orne Jewett
#21. It is by studium that I am interested in so many photographs, whether I receive them as political testimony or enjoy them as good historical scenes: for it is culturally (this connotation is present in studium) that I participate in the figures, the faces, the gestures, the settings, the actions.
Roland Barthes
#22. It's not enough just to treat women well. We have to work to make sure all men treat women well.
Jeff Bridges
#23. We are neither of us the people we were then. Let us look on the past only as it gives us pleasure, and to the future with confidence and hope.
P.D. James
#24. Think of any great man or woman. How can you separate them from the years in which they lived? You can't. Their greatness lies in their response to that moment.
Timothy Findley
#25. Writers are influenced by their upbringing and experiences. But they are also influenced by the writings of others, the major historical events of their times and the great public and literary figures to whom they are exposed.
Joseph Kenyon
#27. That Krishna himself was a historical figure is indeed quite indubitable.
Rudolf Otto
#28. Guy goes into a bar with a duck under his arm. Bartender says, "Where'd you get the pig?" Guy says, "This is a duck." Bartender says, "I was talking to the duck."
Rodney Dangerfield
#29. She was afraid of losing her shape, spreading out, not being able to contain herself any longer, beginning (that would be worst of all) to talk a lot, to tell everybody, to cry.
Margaret Atwood
#30. As their figures recede, it strikes Filsan as ironic that they had delayed fleeing so they could take as many of their possessions as possible, but now those very possessions prevent their flight.
Nadifa Mohamed
#31. There was, of course, a global financial crisis. But our Labour predecessors left Britain exceptionally vulnerable and damaged: more personal debt than any other major economy; a dangerously inflated property bubble; and a bloated banking sector behaving as masters, not the servants of the people.
Vince Cable
#32. Mitterrand had a sense for symbols, and he was the first Socialist president since 1958. He wanted to show that there is historical continuity, a connection with the great figures of French history.
Francois Hollande
#33. The world owes its progress to the men who have dared,
Dale Carnegie
#34. The pride of the hipster food movement is sort of annoying, but it fascinates me.
Matt Stone
#35. There is a constant ebb and flow in art historical reputations. The reputation of even the greatest figures like Picasso are in flux.
Jeffrey Deitch
#36. My composition often goes toward the black middle class or the black super-wealthy or strong historical black figures.
Rashid Johnson
#37. As a female I think it's a terrible hindrance in business. I think it's a terrible hindrance for any female to have a lot of intelligence in private life, but I think in business sometimes it's even worse because there's deep resentment.
Bette Davis
