Quotes About Historical Moments

#1. Sometimes there are historical moments when a country's course could be turned one way or the other, when fate can be escaped.

Vladimir Voinovich

#2. It was extraordinary how tumultuous historical moments could be replayed right here in this ordinary little moment as she drove down the Pacific Highway

Liane Moriarty

#3. I have been blessed to win a number of awards and be involved in numerous historical baseball moments over my 20-year career with the Los Angeles Dodgers and San Diego Padres.

Steve Garvey

#4. Innovators find more viewing spots than the rest.

Pearl Zhu

#5. Whenever I went to an historical moment that was sad or where something terrible happened, it was, for me, a learning moment, a teaching moment for those who survived.

Fred D'Aguiar

#6. When one is busy, as she was in Donegal, life whistles by. One struggles to keep up with oneself. It is vital, when one slows down, to be conscious of small things, small moments. To take pains.

Orna Ross

#7. Virtually everything that gets printed about me is wrong anyway, so it doesn't really matter what you say.

Zara Phillips

#8. Natalie Bakopoulos has that rare gift, the ability to imagine a traumatic historical event in the form of individual lives and ordinary details. The Green Shore is compelling, personal, and full of quietly real moments,

Elizabeth Kostova

#9. There were some low moments out there on the road tonight - abandonment and what's the point? - but then I pulled in a radio station from Albuquerque playing historical rap and breakdance circa 1982. Kurtis Blow and disco synthesizers made me feel like I could drive all night.

Chris Kraus

#10. The point is, people have been having babies for thousands of years. There will be frightening moments and exhausting moments, but more than anything---"
"--- there will just be love.

Erica Ridley

#11. I believe in America. I believe in her purpose and her promise. I believe her best days have not yet been lived. I believe her greatest deeds are reserved for the generations to come.

Rick Perry

#12. With every one, the expectation of a misfortune constitutes a dreadful, punishment. Suffering then assumes the proportions of the unknown, which is the soul's infinite.

Honore De Balzac

#13. The moment was all we truly had: a succession of moments, a triumphal march of them, to create a life beyond compare.

Margaret George

#14. Could slavery suggest a more complete servility than some of these journals exhibit? Is there any dust which their conduct does not lick, and make fouler still with its slime?

Henry David Thoreau

#15. Men will not always die quietly.

John Maynard Keynes

#16. The wisest among you is he whose sustenance is the fear of Allah.

Umar

#17. There are pop managers, and then there's Simon Cowell, who isn't gay, Jewish or particularly riveting. He's not without interest but he doesn't exactly have the hinterland of, say, Brian Epstein.

Peter York