#history

I love history because when you strip away the social and political aspects, it's really just a bunch of fun stories. ↗

— Duff Goldman

#away #because #bunch #fun #history

Hubert Humphrey talks so fast that listening to him is like trying to read Playboy magazine with your wife turning the pages. ↗

— Barry Goldwater

#fast #him #hubert #humphrey #like

Heretofore there has always been in the history of the world a comparatively unoccupied land westward, into which the crowded countries of the East have poured their surplus populations. ↗

— Josiah Strong

#been #comparatively #countries #crowded #east

The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Sociology extracts it. The writer loses Eden, writes to be read and comes to realize that he is answerable. ↗

— Nadine Gordimer

#answerable #comes #creative #creative act #eden

No people in the history of the world have ever been so misunderstood, so misjudged, and so cruelly maligned. ↗

— John Brown Gordon

#cruelly #ever #history #maligned #misunderstood

A lot of the great songwriters in history have been collaborators, with a separate lyricist. ↗

— Mike Gordon

#collaborators #great #history #lot #lyricist

As a state we are so uniquely positioned in so many ways. Our geography, our placement in the country, and our history positions us to be the state that propels energy efficiency as an industry. ↗

— Jennifer Granholm

#efficiency #energy #energy efficiency #geography #history

Every actor in the room honored Sidney for being there so many years before. And everybody was so moved to be at a place where history was being made again. It was tangible. ↗

— Lee Grant

#again #before #being #being there #every

The history of all big jazz bands shows was, first they played for dancing, and then they played for singing. ↗

— Norman Granz

#big #dancing #first #history #jazz

We used to root for the Indians against the cavalry, because we didn't think it was fair in the history books that when the cavalry won it was a great victory, and when the Indians won it was a massacre. ↗

— Dick Gregory

#against #because #books #cavalry #fair