Quotes About Historical Sources

#1. Archbishop James Ussher of the Church of Ireland made a careful study of the Bible and other historical sources and concluded, in a hefty tome called Annals of the Old Testament, that the Earth had been created at midday on 23 October 4004 BC, an assertion

Bill Bryson

#2. There is a constant rush to judgment in Foucault. He is filled with specious generalizations, false categories, distortions, fudging, pretenses to knowledge in areas where he was ignorant. He had no ability whatsoever to distinguish among historical sources, where he makes terrible blunders.

Camille Paglia

#3. The characters in my stories, whether historical or fictional, usually prove to be a compilation of influences taken from differing sources, but never drawn from one model.

Thomas Steinbeck

#4. The person who has read just a single book argues.
The person who has read the entire library watches in silence.

Unknown

#5. Sometimes I think sportsmanship is a little bit forgotten in place of the individual attention.

Cal Ripken Jr.

#6. I don't know of a better argument in favor of farming with horses than trying to start an old tractor in the winter time.

Gene Logsdon

#7. She wanted something to happen - something, anything: she did not know what.

Kate Chopin

#8. Everything in shamanism is about relationships.

S. Kelley Harrell

#9. Without an anchor, we can be drifted to any shore.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#10. I won't be happy unless I finish Lyoto Machida.

Chris Weidman

#11. Don't miss the bus, boy. You're missing a lot of things in the world, better not miss that bus.

Robert Cormier

#12. For me archaeology is not a source of illustrations for written texts, but an independent source of historical information, with no less value and importance, sometimes more importance, that the written sources.

Michael Rostovtzeff

#13. Give me a girl at an impressionable age and she is mine for life.

Muriel Spark

#14. People say to me. 'What about the rich?' They need Jesus too.' Well, that's fine if you're called to them, but we're called to the poor. The rich can look after themselves.

Jackie Pullinger

#15. To me, healing means you have to recognize there is a wound and you try to understand what the sources of the wound are, which means you try to tell a story about how it came to be. So you have to engage in some historical interpretation.

Cornel West

#16. You need to be different and stand out. You need to have a message. For me, it didn't come easily. The best advice I was ever given, though, is go away and write 100 songs. You need to find the music that's you.

Jess Glynne

#17. Oddly enough, my favorite genre is not fiction. I'm attracted by primary sources that are relevant to historical questions of interest to me, by famous old books on philosophy or theology that I want to see with my own eyes, by essays on contemporary science, by the literatures of antiquity.

Marilynne Robinson

#18. Managers are agents of transformation, converting the workforce in developed countries from one of manual workers to one of highly educated knowledge workers.

Peter Drucker

#19. Yet all agree that the Pentateuch is not a single, seamless composition but a patchwork of different sources, each written under different historical circumstances to express different religious or political viewpoints.

Israel Finkelstein

#20. in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.

Anonymous

#21. The Republicans or conservatives always, when it comes to judging, when it comes to legalities, always try to do the right thing even if it harms their interests.

Rush Limbaugh

#22. I was the hallway clown in high school.

J. B. Smoove