#history

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

I'm an unabashed elitist. Everyone needs a good editor, and there is peril in worshiping amateurism and the unedited in science, art, and journalism. ↗

— K. Lee Lerner

#history #journalism #media #politics #science

One thing I've learned over these last 30 or 40 years is that people make history. There's no fait accompli to any of this. ↗

— Jeremy Rifkin

#history #i #last #learned #make

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

Portability also explains why many old chests and trunks had domed lids- to throw off water during travel. The great drawback of trunks, of course, is that everything has to be lifted at to get things at the bottom. It took a remarkably long time- till the 1600s- before it occurred to anyone to put drawers in and thus convert trunks into chests of drawers. ↗

— Bill Bryson

#history #trunks #home

Remember, God provides the best camouflage several hours out of every 24. ↗

— David M. Shoup

#best #camouflage #every #god #hours

You don't change the course of history by turning the faces of portraits to the wall. ↗

— Jawaharlal Nehru

#course #faces #history #portraits #turning

Inflation is bringing us true democracy. For the first time in history, luxuries and necessities are selling at the same price. ↗

— Robert Orben

#democracy #first #first time #history #inflation

Many leaders of big organizations, I think, don't believe that change is possible. But if you look at history, things do change, and if your business is static, you're likely to have issues. ↗

— Larry Page

#big #business #change #history #i