#history

At the age of fifteen he had bought off a twopenny stall in the market a duo-decimo book of recipes, gossip, and homilies, printed in 1605. His stepmother, able to read figures, had screamed at the sight of it when he had proudly brought it home. 1605 was 'the olden days', meaning Henry VIII, the executioner's axe, and the Great Plague. She thrust the book into the kitchen fire with the tongs, yelling that it must be seething with lethal germs. A limited, though live, sense of history. And history was the reason why she would never go to London. She saw it as dominated by the Bloody Tower, Fleet Street full of demon barbers, as well as dangerous escalators everywhere. ↗

— Anthony Burgess

#humor #london #age

My first reaction, every time I delve into an episode of history that I don’t know very much about, is anger that my teachers never taught me about it. ↗

— Steven Spielberg

#anger

precious laughing time is wasted, because I have to put up with Satan's stupid minions who smile without attempting to anger somebody else - leave us alone already. ↗

— A Gentlemen

#history #inspirational #madness #philosophy #sadness

Before anyone could be delivered, everybody betrayed everybody. The Jews no longer knew which current to swim, and brother turned against brother. It seems that Josephus was quick in putting all the blame on the Zealots, himself having deserted the mission. He was a turncoat, and nothing he said can be taken at face value without carefully reading between the lines. Josephus did not recognize that the same guys he cursed in failure would have been his heroes in success. But then, the failure might have come about through those who abandoned the mission—those like himself. It is the age-old question: has the freedom fighter turned terrorist, or has the terrorist turned freedom fighter? ↗

— A.J. Deus

#age

I do an awful lot of thinking and dreaming about things in the past and the future - the timelessness of the rocks and the hills - all the people who have existed there. I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape - the loneliness of it, the dead feeling of winter. Something waits beneath it, the whole story doesn't show. ↗

— Andrew Wyeth

#history #winter #art

America's honor, your honor is at stake. Go out and preserve the greatest country in the history of the world. ↗

— Rick Santorum

#country #go #greatest #greatest country #history

The German national character is a favorite subject of character experts, probably because the less mature a nation, the more she is an object of criticism and not of history. ↗

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

#character #criticism #experts #favorite #german

The becoming of man is the history of the exhaustion of his possibilities. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#exhaustion #his #history #man #possibilities

I think I'm the only actor in the history of film who got to slap Sam Jackson on the face and butt and lived to tell about it. ↗

— Eugene Levy

#actor #face #film #got #history

First of all, there's no mention of political parties in the Constitution, so you begin American history with not only no political conventions but also no parties. ↗

— Michael Beschloss

#american #american history #begin #constitution #conventions