Quotes About How History Affects Us

#1. "Eight Days of Luke" was refused by another confused publisher on the grounds that children shouldn't strike matches. When my agent pointed out that David in the book was twelve years old, the publisher said that he was striking matches to summon the devil, then, and this couldn't be allowed.

Diana Wynne Jones

#2. I'm interested in the way in which the past affects the present and I think that if we understand a good deal more about history, we automatically understand a great more about contemporary life.

Toni Morrison

#3. Be your best gift.

A.D. Posey

#4. Slavery is something that affects all of us. It's all of our history.

John Ridley

#5. If you look at the common denominator of all the comics who have had big success, it's being true to their nature ... that's what takes a long time to learn.

Ron White

#6. The typical American reports making about 70 [choices] in a typical day.

Sheena Iyengar

#7. Flatterers should be mistrusted, especially when they praise the dead. To seek a place in society is self-serving, but to seek one in history affects everyone.

Bauvard

#8. The wise have pitied the fool that hath striven to give a life
In the world of time and space among the bulks of actual things,
To dream that was dreamed in the heart, and that only the heart could hold.
Oh wise men, riddle me this: What if the dream come true?

Padraig Pearse

#9. (A frequent Eric aphorism during financial discussions: "Revenue solves all known problems.")

Eric Schmidt

#10. But ignorance of divine revelation affects all of thought and life, from one's view toward history and philosophy, to one's interpretation of music and literature, to one's understanding of mathematics and physics.

Vincent Cheung

#11. The miracle is that each of us can ultimately be invited to places we have only dreamed about and heard about.

Mark Victor Hansen

#12. Perhaps it is not correct to say that she read it, for unfortunately the number of people who actually read magazines, papers or even books is very small indeed.

Doris Lessing

#13. I like mainly to be invisible, to sort of drift around unseen in the world.

Anne Rice

#14. Girls with boyfriends, she'd said, limit themselves to a certain kind of college experience.

Jenny Han

#15. We should feel empowered by where we came from and who we are, not hide it. It is important to acknowledge that everything we do affects our ancestors as much as they have affected us.

Lorin Morgan-Richards

#16. There is a saying: 'The child is parent to the adult', which means whatever happens to you as a child or teenager affects the adult you become. You are forged in your history. And fiction is an incredibly important force in shaping children, and that's why fiction needs to be diverse.

Malorie Blackman

#17. If you look at U.S. history through religious history, there is very much a motif that shows the importance religion has played in the U.S. We're a very religious country and it affects the way we look at various political issues.

Madeleine Albright

#18. How was your day?" Morelli asked me. "Oh, you know, the usual. Stole a truck. Blew up a building, and brought seven monkeys home with me.

Janet Evanovich

#19. History affects our future but it doesn't determine it.

Todd Stocker

#20. ...what is written on paper affects history. But not life. Life is a different history.

Mario Puzo