Quotes About Primary Sources

#1. My goal was to have as many of the primary sources as I could made available for people to look at and understand. Climate change is probably the most important thing that's ever happened, and yet people's understanding of it and its history remains a little fuzzy.

Bill McKibben

#2. Eleanor Marx was her father's first biographer. All subsequent biographies of Karl Marx, and most of Engels, draw on her work as their primary sources for the family history, often without knowing it. I think if she'd been a son, she would have been referenced more.

Rachel Holmes

#3. 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

#4. Looking back, has this journalism experience been a nightmare for you?'
'Not entirely.'
'Did you enjoy any of it?'
'I liked going to the library,' he says. 'I think I prefer books to people
primary sources scare me.

Tom Rachman

#5. The closer you can get to your setting and to primary sources, the more authentic your history is going to be ...

David B. Coe

#6. I always use primary sources, in addition to reading biographies and other materials.

Nancy Horan

#7. Most historians and other writers of what we now consider 'primary sources' simply didn't think about women and their contribution to society. They took it for granted, except when that contribution or its lack directly affected men.

Tansy Rayner Roberts

#8. The Christian Theology Reader brings the best primary sources to the theological inquirer.

Gabriel Fackre

#9. In conclusion, here's my advice to aspiring writers, journalists, and future lawyers - or anyone planning on working in the communications field: if you want an accurate account of any story, go to the primary sources. They know what really happened.

Simeon Wright

#10. The things we fear most in organizations - fluctuations, disturbances,
imbalances - are the primary sources of creativity.

Margaret J. Wheatley

#11. Clowns make me ... Think.

James Marsters

#12. Life lessons are not journeys traveled in straight lines but are crossroads
formed years and miles apart.

Gina Greenlee

#13. For me, the magic of Hawaii comes from the stillness, the sea, the stars.

Joanne Harris

#14. anything worth fighting for is worth everything you have.

Corinne Michaels

#15. The number 108 is held to be the most auspicious, a perfect three-digit multiple of three, its components adding up to 9, which is three threes. And 3, of course, is the number representing supreme balance.

Elizabeth Gilbert