Quotes about History, page 5

I was very interested in art and art history. I probably would have pursued that somehow working in a gallery or an auction house.

Quote by Gwyneth Paltrow about history

I'm a storyteller firstly but the stories that engage me passionately are the ones that make me care about something.

Quote by Sara Paretsky about history

There's an institution here called the National Sound Archive, and there's a character who works there, Paul Wilson. He takes a very special interest in the history of the music and advised Martin Davidson of the existence of these tapes.

Quote by Evan Parker about history

Few passages of history are more striking than those which record the efforts of the earlier French Jesuits to convert the Indians.

Quote by Francis Parkman about history

People in millenniums ahead will know what we were like in the 1930's and the thing that, the important major things that shaped our history at that time. This is as important for historic reasons as any other.

Quote by Gordon Parks about history

Here, we tell the story: why the people came here, what they did when they got here, going back to the Native Americans and coming all the way forward.

Quote by Robert Patterson about history

Love is never defeated, and I could add, the history of Ireland proves it.

Quote by Papa John Paul II about history

The historical experience of socialist countries has sadly demonstrated that collectivism does not do away with alienation but rather increases it, adding to it a lack of basic necessities and economic inefficiency.

Quote by Papa John Paul II about history

Today, for the first time in history, a Bishop of Rome sets foot on English soil. This fair land, once a distant outpost of the pagan world, has become, through the preaching of the Gospel, a beloved and gifted portion of Christ's vineyard.

Quote by Papa John Paul II about history

Novelist Paul Bailey wrote the story of my life, An English Madam, and I became a television and media personality.

Quote by Cynthia Payne about history

True there has been more talk of peace since 1945 than, I should think, at any other time in history. At least we hear more and read more about it because man's words, for good or ill, can now so easily reach the millions.

Quote by Lester B. Pearson about history

The whole course of human history may depend on a change of heart in one solitary and even humble individual for it is in the solitary mind and soul of the individual that the battle between good and evil is waged and ultimately won or lost.

Quote by M. Scott Peck about history

I have said and I repeat, at the risk of being sacrilegious, that the gas chambers are a detail of the history of the Second World War.

Quote by Jean-Marie Le Pen about history

When you write a two thousand page history of the Second World War, the deportations and the concentration camps will take up five pages, and the gas chambers perhaps 20 lines.

Quote by Jean-Marie Le Pen about history

The most secular, atheist historian on the planet would have to grant that the entire legal system of Western civilization pivots off those tablets.

Quote by Mike Pence about history

As a historical legacy, the Kashmir conflict has been an outstanding issue for more than half a century.

Quote by Li Peng about history

The border issue between China and India is one left over from history. It naturally takes time and patience on both sides to settle such issues

Quote by Li Peng about history

A store's best advertisement is the service its goods render, for upon such service rest the future, the good-will, of an organization.

Quote by James Cash Penney about history

I had just done what she does in the story just about a year earlier I moved from New Jersey and came to New York and was working at a bar, and you know, trying to make it.

Quote by Piper Perabo about history

I think I was a good student, because I jumped over a school. My main interest was basically history and literature. Sports were basically basketball and swimming at a pool. I was so happy.

Quote by Shimon Peres about history