#history

I'm too old to be ignorant as I am." --Twelve-year-old Gabriella to the general, who does not want her to know about Emmett Till and the world's brutality. ↗

— Elle Thornton

#historic-fiction #military-history #north-carolina #race-relations #young-adult-fiction

I've left Boro in the Premiership, which was always what I wanted to do. Actually that's not quite true. I took them to three cup finals, where they'd never been before. But I had set my eyes on being the first manager in their history to deliver a major trophy. ↗

— Bryan Robson

#always #been #before #being #boro

While we are living in the present, we must celebrate life every day, knowing that we are becoming history with every work, every action, every deed. ↗

— Mattie Stepanek

#becoming #celebrate #day #deed #every

Russians can give you arms but only the United States can give you a solution. ↗

— Anwar Sadat

#arms #give #only #russians #solution

What a thrill it was to play opposite Maurice Evans in this brilliant, dazzling musical, based on the life of two of the greatest personalities in stage history. ↗

— Dinah Sheridan

#brilliant #dazzling #evans #greatest #history

Most of my career has been spent with the RSC doing Shakespeare, and the thing you learn from Shakespeare is that his historical plays don't bear anything other than a basic resemblance to history. ↗

— Antony Sher

#basic #bear #been #career #doing

Better treatment and detection methods have also improved the survival rate for people with cancer, and for the first time in history, this year the absolute number of cancer deaths in the U.S. has decreased. ↗

— Ike Skelton

#also #better #cancer #deaths #decreased

Jake was close to tears. In that moment he saw the world in its true light, as a place where nothing had ever been any good and nothing of significance done: no art worth a second look, no philosophy of the slightest appositeness, no law but served the state, no history that gave an inkling of how it had been and what had happened. And no love, only egotism, infatuation and lust. ↗

— Kingsley Amis

#history #love #pessimism #truth #art

I have a high regard for Native languages and the pivotal role they have played in our nation's history. ↗

— Rick Renzi

#history #i #languages #nation #native

I call on everyone of goodwill both in Ireland and abroad to join now in ensuring that the beginning of peace becomes a reality, before this year is out. Let us together open a new era in our history. ↗

— Albert Reynolds

#becomes #before #beginning #both #call