Quotes About Witnessing History

#1. I'm not a religious person. The language of photography is symbolic.

Sebastiao Salgado

#2. God grant that this is the work of the Communists. You are witnessing the beginning of a great new epoch in German history. This fire is the beginning.

Adolf Hitler

#3. You could grow up in the city where history was made and still miss it all.

Jonathan Lethem

#4. Witnessing the Vette's demise, the way Rick felt, there wasn't a king on Earth who he would bow to. No religious figure whose hand he'd kiss. No icon of history he'd worship. No one whose autograph he'd seek. He was becoming a legend, and he was alive to feel it happen.

Rich Hoffman

#5. We are witnessing the beginning of one of the great tragedies of history. The United States, in a misguided effort to reduce its oil insecurity by converting grain into fuel for cars, is generating global food insecurity on a scale never seen before.

Lester R. Brown

#6. Yes, if the stones that we walked on could talk, they would surely tell our story.

Nico J. Genes

#7. From tea parties to the election in Massachusetts, we are witnessing the single greatest political pushback in American history.

Marco Rubio

#8. History is opaque. You see what comes out, not the script that produces events, [ ... ] The generator of historical events is different from the events themselves, much as the minds of the gods cannot be read just by witnessing their deeds.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#9. Trust what your instincts are telling you, it's your souls voice pointing you in the right direction.

Nikki Rowe

#10. I want to be Miss Universe when I grow up.

Danielle Steel

#11. Call me an alarmist, but we are witnessing the beginning of the most frightening period of government tyranny in our nation's history.

David Limbaugh

#12. Witnessing is the essence of being a documentary filmmaker. Capturing moments in time; never knowing how history will judge them.

Pamela Yates

#13. The minimum wage was due for an increase, but it was important that we offset its cost to small businesses.

J. D. Hayworth

#14. People are supposed to care. It's good that people mean something to you, that you miss people when they're gone.

John Green

#15. In a very real sense, we are complicitous in their achievement, since we are the audience for which they were performing; knowing we would be watching helped to keep them on their best behavior.

Joseph J. Ellis

#16. Systematic philosophical and practical anti-intellectualism such as we are witnessing appears to be something truly novel in the history of human culture.

Johan Huizinga