#history

In fact, the history of North America has been perhaps more profoundly influenced by man's inheritance from his past homes than by the physical features of his present home. ↗

— Ellsworth Huntington

#been #fact #features #his #history

Wisely used history can give pleasure and provide us with a useful tool; but we should not become its slaves. ↗

— Douglas Hurd

#give #history #pleasure #provide #should

History shows that people often do cast their votes for amorphous reasons-the most powerful among them being the need for change. Just ask Bill Clinton. ↗

— Gwen Ifill

#amorphous #ask #being #bill #bill clinton

I'm the Latin artist who has been the most successful in history at representing the Latin culture. The stylings of my words are immodest, but it's the truth. ↗

— Julio Iglesias

#been #culture #history #i #latin

I believe that we must maintain pride in the knowledge that the actions we take, based on our own decisions and choices as individuals, link directly to the magnificent challenge of transforming human history. ↗

— Daisaku Ikeda

#based #believe #challenge #choices #decisions

To communicate the truths of history is an act of hope for the future. ↗

— Daisaku Ikeda

#communicate #future #history #hope #truths

Another day I walked out of town to do a bit of climbing in the mountains behind the airport. I scrambled up and down slopes that contained some of the oldest rocks in the world, isotope-dated at 3,800 billion years, remnants, so the geological rumor goes, of the earth's earliest terrestrial crust. ↗

— Lawrence Millman

#natural-history #page- #dating

The best moments in reading are when you come across something - a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things - which you had thought special and particular to you. And now, here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out, and taken yours ↗

— Alan Bennett

#history #reading #person

Winning the Revolutionary War, or the Civil War, or World War II were the turning points in our history, the sine qua non of our forward progress. ↗

— Stephen Ambrose

#civil war #forward #history #ii #non

Crazy Horse saw history as integrated in the present, incorporated into daily life. ↗

— Stephen Ambrose

#daily #daily life #history #horse #incorporated