#history

A child is asleep. Her private life unwinds inside skin and skull; only as she sheds childhood, first one decade and then another, can she locate the actual, historical stream, see the setting of her dreaming private life—the nation, the city, the neighborhood, the house where the family lives—as an actual project under way, a project living people willed, and made well or failed, and are still making, herself among them. I breathed the air of history all unaware, and walked oblivious through its littered layers. ↗

— Annie Dillard

#childhood #history #memory #dreams

Woz is living his own life now. He hasn't been around Apple for about five years. But what he did will go down in history. ↗

— Steve Jobs

#apple #around #been #did #down

The history of all the great characters of the Bible is summed up in this one sentence: They acquainted themselves with God, and acquiesced His will in all things. ↗

— Richard Cecil

#acquiesced #all things #bible #characters #god

History's just been made for sale to an inside deal. ↗

— Ken Burns

#deal #history #inside #just #made

There's something quite exciting when you have a history with somebody and you see them do new and different things. ↗

— Tim Burton

#different things #exciting #history #new #quite

But let me tell you, this gender thing is history. You're looking at a guy who sat down with Margaret Thatcher across the table and talked about serious issues. ↗

— George H. W. Bush

#across #down #gender #guy #history

History will point out some of the things I did wrong and some of the things I did right. ↗

— George H. W. Bush

#history #i #out #point #right

Americans are rising to the tasks of history, and they expect the same of us. ↗

— George W. Bush

#history #rising #same #tasks #us

The true history of my administration will be written 50 years from now, and you and I will not be around to see it. ↗

— George W. Bush

#around #history #i #now #see

Life is worth living and no matter what it throws at you it is important to keep your eyes on the prize of the happiness that will come. Even when the Death Railway reduced us to little more than animals, humanity in the shape of our saintly medical officers triumphed over barbarism. Remember, while it always seems darkest before the dawn, perseverance pays off and the good times will return. ↗

— Alistair Urquhart

#memoir #military-history #world-war-ii #death