#history

I surrendered to a world of my imagination, reenacting all those wonderful tales my father would read aloud to me. I became a very active reader, especially history and Shakespeare. ↗

— Andrew Wyeth

#aloud #became #especially #father #history

Because of the fashion, the young people don't have any access to the history of music, unless people like me revive it. There are very few people to revive it, because you can't earn any money doing it. ↗

— Bill Wyman

#any #because #doing #earn #fashion

Government has never increased the standard of living of one single human being in civilization's history. For some reason that simple truth has evaded everybody. ↗

— Steve Wynn

#civilization #everybody #government #history #human

History is a people's memory, and without a memory, man is demoted to the lower animals. ↗

— Malcom X

#history #lower #lower animals #man #memory

Even the great bad guys in cinema history, they're likable. ↗

— Balthazar Getty

#bad guys #cinema #even #great #guys

If you don't know history, then you don't know anything. You are a leaf that doesn't know it is part of a tree. ↗

— Michael Crichton

#trees

But it is one of these sort of mythologies about America and its intellectual history, that the right embraced this thing called social Darwinism, when it never did so. ↗

— Jonah Goldberg

#america #called #darwinism #did #embraced

There was no intellectual movement in American history called social Darwinism. The people who were supposedly the leaders of the social Darwinist movement never embraced something called social Darwinism. It didn't exist. ↗

— Jonah Goldberg

#american history #called #darwinism #embraced #exist

War had always seemed to me to be a purely human behavior. Accounts of warlike behavior date back to the very first written records of human history; it seemed to be an almost universal characteristic of human groups. ↗

— Jane Goodall

#almost #always #back #behavior #characteristic

I turned pro and won Rookie of the Year on the South African Tour and then it took me two tries at the qualifying school on the European Tour and to get my card and the rest is history. ↗

— Retief Goosen

#card #european #get #history #i