#history

Asking the author of historical novels to teach you about history is like expecting the composer of a melody to provide answers about radio transmission. ↗

— Lion Feuchtwanger

#answers #asking #author #composer #expecting

The people in Japan know more about the history of jazz and the musicians than the people in the United States do. ↗

— Billy Higgins

#history #japan #jazz #know #more

There was never anything like it before in history. It was a different kind of joyous, happy screaming. ↗

— Jo Stafford

#before #different #different kind #happy #history

Michael Jordon may have been the best basketball player in history, but he couldn't have won six NBA titles without a team. ↗

— Mark E. Hyman

#basketball #basketball player #been #best #history

For me, poetry is a situation - a state of being, a way of facing life and facing history. ↗

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

#facing #history #life #me #poetry

If some countries have too much history, we have too much geography. ↗

— Mackenzie King

#geography #history #much #some #too

France is delighted at this new opportunity to show the world that when one has the will one can succeed in joining peoples who have been brought close by history. ↗

— Francois Mitterrand

#been #brought #close #delighted #france

No one is going to give you the education you need to overthrow them. Nobody is going to teach you your true history, teach you your true heroes, if they know that that knowledge will help set you free. ↗

— Assata Shakur

#education #heroes #history #knowledge #education

I know it is the fashion to say that most of recorded history is lies anyway. I am willing to believe that history is for the most part inaccurate and biased, but what is peculiar to our own age is the abandonment of the idea that history could be truthfully written. ↗

— George Orwell

#age

Later on in life, you expect a bit of rest, don't you? You think you deserve it. I did, anyway. But then you begin to understand that the reward of merit is not life's business. ↗

— Julian Barnes

#history #life #meaning #memory #philosophy