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#story

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #story




And in the absence of facts, myth rushes in, the kudzu of history. ↗


— Stacy Schiff


#facts-and-ideas #history #myth #life

The true story of every person in this world is not the story you see, the external story. The true story of each person is the journey of his or her heart. ↗


— John Eldredge


#heart #life #story #life

We do not know whether Hitler is going to found a new Islam. He is already on the way; he is like Mohammad. The emotion in Germany is Islamic; warlike and Islamic. They are all drunk with wild god. That can be the historic future. ↗


— C.G. Jung


#history #hitler #islam #prophet #life

This is what I would have done if I had to have a real job: I would have been a history teacher. ↗


— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar


#done #had #history #i #job

The subject of history is the life of peoples and mankind. ↗


— Leo Tolstoy


#life

After listening and getting to know more about you. Also, feeling a deep connection between us that goes beyond physical attraction. I'm beginning to feel for, so much more than the friendship that I waited to grow with you. I'm not going to try and rush things. However, I don't want to wait until it's to late. ↗


— Jonathan Anthony Burkett


#life #love-story #romance #true-love #friendship

I told her that my happy yellow teapot has a kinky backstory involving a nineteenth-century vegetarian sex cult in upstate New York whose members lived for three decades as self-proclaimed "Bible communists" before incorporating into the biggest supplier of dinnerware to the American food-service industry, not to mention harboring their most infamous resident, an irritating young maniac who, years after he moved away, was hanged for assassinating President Garfield. ↗


— Sarah Vowell


#yay-history #food

Biological evidence indicates that man, evolving with his food plants, developed horticulture and agriculture in both hemispheres at a time which may well have reached far back into the Pleistocene. ↗


— Russell Lord


#archaeology #history #horticulture #food

There's something about these obscure vignettes of former lives that's very powerful. Our woods are full of old cellar holes, tumbled-down chimneys, ancient scraggly lilacs absurdly tall still stretching toward the light. ↗


— Leslie Land


#forgotten #history #land #woods #food

After 1656 the Dutch, who had gained control over the Moluccas, chose the islands that could be most easily defended. They then burned all the nutmeg trees on the other islands to make sure no one else could profit from the trees. Anyone caught trying to smuggle nutmeg out of the Moluccas was put to death. The Dutch also dipped all their nutmegs in lime (a caustic substance) to stop the seed from sprouting and to prevent people from planting their own trees. Pigeons, however, defied these Dutch precautions. Birds could eat nutmeg fruits, fly to another island and leave the seeds behind in their droppings. ↗


— Meredith Sayles Hughes


#spices #death






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