#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

The truth is the Republican leadership has created a credit card Congress that is recklessly selling out the future of America, our children and our grandchildren, and President Bush is the most fiscally irresponsible President in the history of America. ↗

— Dennis Cardoza

#bush #card #children #congress #created

There is no glory in war, yet from the blackness of its history, there emerge vivid colours of human character and courage. Those who risked their lives to help their friends. ↗

— Silvia Cartwright

#character #colours #courage #emerge #friends

These fallen heroes represent the character of a nation who has a long history of patriotism and honor - and a nation who has fought many battles to keep our country free from threats of terror. ↗

— Michael N. Castle

#battles #character #country #fallen #fought

Love is more pleasant than marriage for the same reason that novels are more amusing than history. ↗

— Nicolas Chamfort

#history #love #love is #marriage #more

The construction of Europe is an art. It is the art of the possible. ↗

— Jacques Chirac

#art #construction #europe #possible

Terrorism takes us back to ages we thought were long gone if we allow it a free hand to corrupt democratic societies and destroy the basic rules of international life. ↗

— Jacques Chirac

#ages #allow #back #basic #corrupt

The Iraqi Free Press, which did not exist 18 months ago because there was no such thing as the Iraqi Free Press, broke a story about the U.N. Oil-for-Food scandal, which could potentially turn out to be the largest scandal in history. ↗

— Chris Chocola

#ago #because #broke #could #did

These are matters of external history. They are indeed prominent objects, often changing and giving a new direction to the current; but they tell us not why it flows onward and will ever flow. ↗

— Jones Very

#current #direction #ever #external #flow

If privacy ends where hypocrisy begins, Kitty Kelley's steamy expose is a contribution to contemporary history. ↗

— Eleanor Clift

#contemporary #contemporary history #contribution #ends #expose