#tory

A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots. ↗

— Marcus Garvey

#history #knowledge #like #origin #past

It's all about letting the story take over. ↗

— Robert Stone

#letting #over #story #take

We have need of history in its entirety, not to fall back into it, but to see if we can escape from it. ↗

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

#entirety #escape #fall #history #into

Well, that's the old story I heard about the Jackie Chan films. That, like, Jackie Chan will just keep going and when crew members drop he just replaces them. I don't know if that's true but after having worked in Japan I believe it might be true. ↗

— Sarah Michelle Gellar

#after #be true #believe #chan #crew

Everything in a story should be credible. ↗

— Rex Stout

#everything #should #story

Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man. ↗

— Jean Genet

#constitute #crimes #history #man #people

We can't understand when we're pregnant, or when our siblings are expecting, how profound it is to have a shared history with a younger generation: blood, genes, humor. It means we were actually here, on Earth, for a time - like the Egyptians with their pyramids, only with children. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#blood #children #earth #egyptians #expecting

I think the history and the past we have is just an energy we've built up to do what we do now. ↗

— Helmut Lang

#energy #history #i #i think #just

You may succeed in your policy and ensure your own damnation, by your victory. ↗

— James Larkin

#ensure #may #own #policy #succeed

Humans have changed ecosystems more rapidly and extensively than in any comparable period of time in human history, largely to meet rapidly growing demands for food, fresh water, timber, fiber and fuel. This has resulted in a substantial and largely irreversible loss in the diversity of life on Earth. ↗

— Gary Larson

#changed #comparable #demands #diversity #earth