#historic

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #historic




I've got nothing against records - I've spent my life making them - but they are a kind of historical blip.


Brian Eno


#got #historical #i #kind #life

After closely examining my conscience, I venture to state that in my historical novels I intended the content to be just as modern and up-to-date as in the contemporary ones.


Lion Feuchtwanger


#closely #conscience #contemporary #content #examining

My worry is that opera will become an historic art form as opposed to a living, breathing thing.


Renee Fleming


#art form #become #breathing #breathing thing #form

But you know we couldn't compare what we do with what the British athletes did at the Olympics. We are very proud to be British and if we have done our bit to promote Britain in a historic year for the country that's brilliant.


Louis Tomlinson


#bit #brilliant #britain #british #compare

I read numerous books - loads in fact - and, as I always do when recording a historical project, immersed myself into the subject matter. I spent many hours at Henry's old homes, such as Hampton Court, and visiting the Tower of London. I read no other books during that period.


Rick Wakeman


#books #court #during #fact #hampton

My most ardent desire is that my country will recapture its historic opportunity for a peaceful evolution and that Poland will prove to the world that even the most complex situations can be solved by a dialogue and not by force.


Lech Walesa


#complex #country #desire #dialogue #even

I believe the National Park Service has demonstrated strong partnerships geared towards respecting the private property of citizens in its administering of the current Trail of Tears National Historic Trail and will continue to do so upon the addition of the routes.


Zach Wamp


#administering #believe #citizens #continue #current

As the gospels present it to us, the mission of Jesus of Nazareth is about the way in which the community of God's people - historically, the Jewish people who had first received the law and the covenant - is being re-created in relation to Jesus himself.


Rowan D. Williams


#being #community #covenant #first #god

The historical circumstance of interest is that the tropical rain forests have persisted over broad parts of the continents since their origins as stronghold of the flowering plants 150 million years ago.


E. O. Wilson


#broad #circumstance #continents #flowering #forests

Historically, Hollywood comedy has arrived in skinny envelopes. From fence post Buster Keaton to herky-jerky Jerry Lewis to wiry nerve-bundle Woody Allen to hung-loose Richard Pryor to whippy contortionist Jim Carrey, its comics and clowns have tended to be sliced thin and bendable.


James Wolcott


#arrived #buster #carrey #clowns #comedy