Top 36 Quotes About Looking Back At History

#1. The hippie movement politicized my generation. When it ended, we all started looking back at our own history, looking, in my case, for motives of rebellion.

Vivienne Westwood

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#2. America's finest - our men and women in uniform, are a force for good throughout the world, and that is nothing to apologize for.

Sarah Palin

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#3. For a man, staying single in teenages is equivallent of smoking to two and a half packets of cigarettes.

Srinivas Shenoy

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#4. Synchronistic events offer us perceptions that may be useful in our psychological and spiritual growth and may reveal to us, through intuitive knowledge, that our lives have meaning.

Jean Shinoda Bolen

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#5. 1926 was the most significant year. Looking back, it seems that it was not just a year in the sense of time. It was a year of great realisation or awareness. It seems to me that at certain times of the history of man, the understanding of certain situations ripens.

Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe

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#6. What if I can't turn my head? I can look in any direction by turning my wheelchair, and I choose to look back. Rodman to the contrary notwithstanding, that is the only direction we can learn from.

Wallace Stegner

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#7. The history of horror movies goes back a long way ... of people trying to convincingly be terrified when looking at a piece of tape on the side of the camera box. I have a whole new respect for it.

Josh Hamilton

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#8. I said to myself as Junction Point embarked on the Epic Mickey journey that, worst case, we'd be 'a footnote in Disney history.' Looking back on it, I think we did far better than that.

Warren Spector

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#9. When I read Thirteen Days I was moved by it. It was just a great time for the world, in terms of looking back in history and seeing how we got ourselves into trouble and how we got ourselves out of trouble.

Kevin Costner

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#10. I have called spinning the yajna of this age of India.

Mahatma Gandhi

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#11. When you look back at that relationship you didn't think you could live without and realize had you stayed in it, you'd be some comfortable loser, sitting on the couch with another comfortable loser, instead of being the dope motherfucker you are today.

Darnell Lamont Walker

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#12. The game is full of peaks and valleys, the key is to avoid the Grand Canyon.

Andy Van Slyke

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#13. Looking back at my high school years, I'm struck by how slowly history can move.

Frank Rich

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#14. If no one is helping you, you need to help yourself.

Lovely Goyal

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#15. History tells us that America does best when the private sector is energetic and entrepreneurial and the government is attentive and engaged. Who among us, really, would, looking back, wish to edit out either sphere at the entire expense of the other?

Jon Meacham

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#16. Finding someone who thinks you're interesting enough to talk to you every day, whether they're a friend or a lover, is one of the best feelings ever.

Unknown

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#17. I'm a member of no party. I have no ideology. I'm a rationalist. I do what I can in the international struggle between science and reason and the barbarism, superstition and stupidity that's all around us.

Christopher Hitchens

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#18. I shall always be grateful for this curious love of history, allowing me to spend a lifetime looking back into the past, allowing me to learn from these large figures about the struggle for meaning for life.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

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#19. Many a housewife staring at the back of her husband's newspaper, or listening to his breathing in bed is lonelier than any spinster in a rented room.

Germaine Greer

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#20. The mind is a vagrant thing ... Thinking is not analogous to a person working in a laboratory who invents something on company time.

Daniel J. Boorstin

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#21. Looking back, I realize my favorite stories weren't in books, they were in comics. On top of being a history enthusiast, my father was also a comics fan, and he kept his stash in the top drawer of his dresser, in easy reach of a kid making a beeline to the bathroom.

Jeff Kinney

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#22. History is so fleeting and we are so busy consuming media and the contemporary culture, voraciously gobbling it up, that we have no room to look back ever, and our young people have a tough time looking back.

Steven Spielberg

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#23. I am what no one else is, and in the hands of God I can do what no one else does. And if I dare set such a truth in motion I will change my world.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

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#24. Looking back through history, there are a lot more men who thought they were Alexander the Great than men who actually were.

James S.A. Corey

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#25. There was something so heavy about the burden of history, of the past. I wasn't sure I had it in me to keep looking back.

Sarah Dessen

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#26. Have you ever felt you were born in the wrong decade, or came just a bit too late and missed out on all the good stuff when it was in its heyday?

E.A. Bucchianeri

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#27. History is an amazing presence
it is the place where vanished time gathers. While we are in the flow of time, it is difficult to glean its significance, and it is only in looking back that we can recognize the hidden dimensions at work within a particular era or epoch.

John O'Donohue

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#28. He was like a nation in crisis, looking back, and back and back - its history might be ugly, but its past shone perfect.

Gish Jen

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#29. Someday," said the Boy-Who-Lived, "when the distant descendants of Homo sapiens are looking back over the history of the galaxy and wondering how it all went so wrong, they will conclude that the original mistake was when someone taught Hermione Granger how to read.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

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#30. WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE WOMEN THAT HAVE MADE A REAL DIFFERENCE IN THE WORLD THROUGHOUT HISTORY, WHAT THEY'VE DONE HAS ALMOST ALWAYS BEEN DEFINED BY FEARLESSNESS. STOP LOOKING OVER YOUR SHOULDER - THERE'S NOBODY WHO MATTERS BACK THERE.

Anna Quindlen

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#31. As long as you have breath, someone needs your talents.

Joel Osteen

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#32. Art has this ability to allow you to connect back through history in the same way that biology does. I'm always looking for source material.

Jeff Koons

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#33. The most he would do was to promise that the gates of hell should not prevail against it. It is about all that, looking back on the history of the Church, one can feel that they have not done.

Charles Williams

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#34. When we slow down, quiet the mind, and allow ourselves to feel hungry for something that we do not understand, we are dipping into the abundant well of spiritual longing.

Elizabeth Lesser

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#35. The Big Bang theory is the idea that if we go back early enough in the history of the universe - and we can do this, of course, by looking at starlight coming to us from billions of years ago - we will see a very hot and dense period where the universe was much smaller, denser, and hotter.

David Gross

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#36. My pride had risen up and whopped me in the face. I don't lose my temper a lot, but when I do, I make a good job of it.

Charlaine Harris

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