#history

There's a difference between knowing what's on the page in a history book and actually feeling that page have curves and valleys. ↗

— Garth Brooks

#between #book #curves #difference #feeling

Young people have been at the forefront of every great social movement in our country's history. ↗

— Sherrod Brown

#country #every #forefront #great #history

Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it. ↗

— Edmund Burke

#history #know #repeat #those #who

Never lend if you need repayment; never give where you want a return. ↗

— Lindsey Davis

#inspirational #inspirational

A man who don't know history, he don't know anything. ↗

— Edward Johnston

#inspirational #inspirational

Each of us lives with a sword over his head. There are those who can ignore its shadow and those who cannot. Those who cannot are not necessarily better than those who can. But they are the creators of the special myth of their time, because any myth is the creation of the very few who cannot bear reality. ↗

— Murray Kempton

#activism-inspiration #american-history #ethics #myth #revolution

At one time he [Cornelius Vanderbilt] personally controlled some 10 percent of all the money in circulation in the United States. ↗

— Bill Bryson

#history #the- #home

When I draw something, I try to build some kind of history into it. Drawing an object that has a certain amount of wear and tear or rust; or a tree that is damaged. I love trying to render not just the object, but what it has been through. ↗

— Alan Lee

#history #love

It's one of those unforgettable moments that happen as a child, when you discover that all along the world has been betraying you. ↗

— Nicole Krauss

#nicole-krauss #the-history-of-love #love

Is Dust immortal then, I ask'd him, so that we may see it blowing through the Centuries? But as Walter gave no Answer I jested with him further to break his Melancholy humour: What is Dust, Master Pyne? And he reflected a little: It is particles of Matter, no doubt. Then we are all Dust indeed, are we not? And in a feigned Voice he murmered, For Dust thou art and shalt to Dust return. Then he made a Sour face, but only yo laugh the more. ↗

— Peter Ackroyd

#dust #history #london #time #art