100+ History Books Quotes | InspiringQuotes.us

source: "Jurnee Smollett-Bell Gets Deep About Underground, a Slave Narrative That Will Make You Proud to Be Black". Interview with Ronda Racha Penrice, www.theroot.com. March 9, 2016.

topic: Mother, Book, Two, Dig Deep, History Books

I love fiction because in fiction you go into the thoughts of people, the little people, the people who were defeated, the poor, the women, the children that are never in history books.

- Isabel Allende

source: "Author Isabel Allende". "Tell Tavis" with Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org. May 12, 2010.

topic: Children, Book, People, History Books

They don't really focus on that history here in America. I remember growing up as a kid, history class was very washed-over. They didn't really get into the gritty bits of slavery. It's a very, very small section in the history books. It's not something they really touch on directly with American curriculums.

- Aldis Hodge

source: "Aldis Hodge Emerges from the Underground". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 7, 2016.

topic: Growing Up, Book, Kids, History Books, History Class

I knew always that Holland gave away the most Jews of all the countries. We are not the heroes that are in the history books.

- Carice van Houten

source: "Carice van Houten Talks to Cole Smithey About Making Paul Verhoeven's 'Black Book'". Interview with Cole Smithey, www.colesmithey.com. April 1, 2007.

topic: Country, Hero, Book, Holland, History Books

While I was drawn to the Renaissance, my first (unpublished) novels took place in modern times. When the subject of alchemy started creeping into my stories, an astute mentor observed that the bits about alchemy might fit better in another time frame. When I finally decided to weave the pieces about the medieval science into historical settings, a successful novel began to emerge. (And I dusted off that art history book, and put it to use once again.)

- Mary Pope Osborne

source: Source: www.yabookshelf.com

topic: Art, Book, Successful, Astute, History Books

Whoever thinks war allows for lasting victories should take a look at European history books and learn their lesson.

- Frank-Walter Steinmeier

source: Source: www.spiegel.de

topic: War, Book, Thinking, European History, History Books

During the Depression, or back when we were fighting Hitler, people didn't have time to sue a company if the coffee was too hot. There were urgent, pressing problems. If you think you have it tough, read history books.

- Bill Maher

topic: Book, Coffee, Fighting, Urgent, History Books

But really, for me, I tried to find first-person accounts. I tried to read stories from men and women who had survived slavery because it's different when you hear it from their mouths instead of reading it from a history book.

- Jurnee Smollett

source: "Jurnee Smollett-Bell Gets Deep About Underground, a Slave Narrative That Will Make You Proud to Be Black". Interview with Ronda Racha Penrice, www.theroot.com. March 9, 2016.

topic: Book, Reading, Men, History Books

Whole great chunks of written history are of little value to the psychohistorian, while other vast areas which have been much neglected by historians childhood history, content analysis of historical imagery, and so on suddenly expand from the periphery to the center of the psychohistorian's conceptual world, simply because his or her own new questions require material nowhere to be found in history books.

- Lloyd deMause

source: "Foundations of Psychohistory". Book by Lloyd deMause, 1982.

topic: Book, Childhood, Historical, History Books, Periphery

Being president means leaving one's name in the history book of which few men are authors. It is my fortune to be blessed with a proud name, one that parents will employ for generations to instill the values of honesty, independence, and above all, courage in their sons.

- Grover Cleveland

topic: Honesty, Book, Blessed, History Books

Think of Florence, Paris, London, New York. Nobody visiting them for the first time is a stranger because he's already visited them in paintings, novels, history books and films. But if a city hasn't been used by an artist, not even the inhabitants live there imaginatively.

- Alasdair Gray

source: Alasdair Gray, Joy Hendry (1991). “Chapman”

topic: New York, Book, Thinking, History Books

So here they are, the dog-faced soldiers, the regulars, the fifty-cents-a-day professionals riding the outposts of the nation, from Fort Reno to Fort Apache, from Sheridan to Stark. They were all the same. Men in dirty-shirt blue and only a cold page in the history books to mark their passing. But wherever they rode and whatever they fought for, that place became the United States.

- Frank Nugent

topic: Dog, Dirty, Book, History Books, Forts

Be lord of a day, through wisdom and justice, and you can put up your history books.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

source: Ralph Waldo Emerson (2001). “Nature, Addresses and Lectures”, p.159, The Minerva Group, Inc.

topic: Wisdom, Book, History, History Books

The unexpressed aim of every politician is to influence events that history books will record his name - and spell it right.

- Judy LaMarsh

source: Judy LaMarsh (1969). “Memoirs of a Bird in a Gilded Cage”, Toronto ; Montreal : McClelland and Stewart

topic: Book, Names, Events, History Books

At times there seems to be a million ideas worth painting. However, there are days when it's a challenge to pull any idea together. On these days I go to my studio, leaf through an art history book, and tell myself that I am part of this great tradition.

- James Dean

topic: Art, Book, Ideas, History Books, Art History

It’s like saying beauty is in the eye of the beholder: what appears to be beautiful today may not be judged beautiful in a few years. A perfect example is the Warhol ‘Marilyn’; in the 1960s it was deemed garish. Art needs to be socialised, and you need a lot of context to understand that, and that doesn’t mean having read a few art history books.

- Peter M. Brant

topic: Beautiful, Art, Book, History Books, Beauty Is In The Eye Of The Beholder

When you realize that your history books and your science books and your literature books are not the result of experts sitting down and making it a wise decision, but of political pressure groups coming to the state textbook hearings, this is wrong.

- Diane Ravitch

source: "Some educators take issue with textbooks" by Casey Wian, www.cnn.com. October 15, 2003.

topic: Wise, Book, Decision, Pressure Groups, History Books

Herman Cain was unaware that China is a nuclear power. And I said to myself, 'Hey, Herman, how about making an unwanted advance on a history book?'

- David Letterman

topic: Book, Nuclear, Hey, History Books

What you believe someone else can or can't do hasn't got beans with the doing. Or lack of doing. Just go back through your history books and you'll discover that just about everything you take for granted today in your daily lives was absolutely impossible not so many years ago.

- Martin Caidin

topic: Book, Believe, Years, History Books

When I was a teenager, I read the bible cover-to-cover, and I found the Old Testament, it's a pretty bloody history book.

- Billy Bob Thornton

topic: Teenager, Book, Old Testament, History Books

Most Muggles lived in a world defined by the limits of what you could do with cars and telephones. Even though Muggle physics explicitly permitted possibilities like molecular nanotechnology or the Penrose process for extracting energy from black holes, most people filed that away in the same section of their brain that stored fairy tales and history books, well away from their personal realities: Long ago and far away, ever so long ago.

- Eliezer Yudkowsky

topic: Book, Reality, Long, History Books, Muggles

All the proliferating falsifications of what I and everyone I know experienced once in what it is now so convenient to call the "fifties" or "sixties," as if life was really measured or lived in arbitrary decades, when the history books are sold like comix.

- Lester Bangs

topic: Book, Arbitrary, Falsification, History Books

Boys forget what their country means by just reading "the land of the free" in history books. Then they get to be men, they forgeteven more. Liberty's too precious a thing to be buried in books.

- Sidney Buchman

source: "Fictional character: Jefferson Smith". "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington", www.imdb.com. 1939.

topic: Country, Reading, Book, Land Of The Free, History Books

We glorify those who left their names in history books at the expense of those contributors about whom our books are silent. We humans are not just a superficial race - we are a very unfair one.

- Nassim Nicholas Taleb

source: Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2010). “The Black Swan: Second Edition: The Impact of the Highly Improbable Fragility"”, p.28, Random House

topic: Book, Race, Names, Contributors, History Books

Those with a gift for action, for their part, often express contempt for those whose gifts are more reflective. Men of action like to say, Those who can, do, those who cant, teach, forgetting that those who teach get to write the history books.

- Michael Ignatieff

source: Michael Ignatieff (2013). “Fire and Ashes”, p.171, Harvard University Press

topic: Book, Writing, Men, History Books

Solyndra will be remembered in the history books as a sad hallmark of a newly installed administration that felt it was above the rules, ***** for positive headlines rather than focused on delivering results.

- Fred Upton

topic: Book, Lust, Administration, History Books

Politicians against gay marriage now, are the future villains of our American History books.

- Natalie Maines

source: Twitter post from Jun 19, 2011

topic: Book, Gay, Villain, History Books, Against Gay Marriage

Pick up any history book, and I suggest you begin with studying the 20th century, and you will find that a large part of the history of our species has all the characteristics we would normally associate with a nightmare or an insane hallucination.

- Eckhart Tolle

source: Source: www.qiwithoutborders.org

topic: Book, Insane, Hallucinations, History Books, 20th Century

If you're starting to lose your faith in the general intelligence of the American populous, there's nothing like them mistaking pop culture for Van Gogh as a sign that people still read their history books and care about art.

- Ben Feldman

source: Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

topic: History Books

It's funny, when you look back in history books or American cookery books, one of the reasons that the quinces and cranberries are used so often is because of their natural jelling properties.

- Alton Brown

source: "TV Chef Alton Brown Shares Tips On The Science Of Thanksgiving Dinner". "All Things Considered" with Ari Shapiro, November 24, 2016.

topic: Book, Often Is, Looks, Cranberries, Quince

I went to a white school over here in Mason, Michigan. The white man made the mistake of letting me read his history books. He made the mistake of teaching me that Patrick Henry was a patriot and George Washington - wasn't nothing non-violent about old Pat or George Washington.

- Malcolm X

source: "The Undiscovered Malcolm X: Stunning New Info on the Assassination, His Plans to Unite the Civil Rights and Black Nationalist Movements & the 3 'Missing' Chapters from His Autobiography". "Democracy Now!" with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. February 21, 2005.

topic: Mistake, Book, Teaching, History Books

I think it's despicable. I also think it's frightening that we seem to live through history over and over again. And I don't know if I'm the only one. I feel like, when you read through history books, you always judge those people in that time.

- Trevor Noah

topic: Book, Thinking, People, History Books

You can read it in history books now, but they often suppress the fact that the U.S. government tolerated [Nazi]. It's really remarkable because they claim that [Franklin] Roosevelt was impeded by the Neutrality Act. On the other hand, he bitterly condemned a Mexican businessman for sending several guns to the Republic. If you look back, oil was the one commodity that [Francisco] Franco could not receive from the Germans and the Italians, so that was quite significant.

- Noam Chomsky

source: Source: thehumanist.com

topic: Book, Gun, Government, History Books, Francisco Franco

I think basically what The American People is about is that we've been here from the very beginning, and that has never ever been acknowledged in the history books. John Winthrop wasn't off the boat ten seconds before he passes a law that homosexuals should be hanged. And then he hung 'em, including an attempt to hang his own son when he found out he was gay.

- Kevin Sessums

topic: Book, Son, Gay, History Books

There were others, women with stories that were told in a quieter voice: women who hid Jewish children in their homes, putting themselves directly in harm's way to save others. Too many of them paid a terrible, unimaginable price for their heroism. And like so many women in wartime, they were largely forgotten after the war's end.There were no parades for them, very few medals, and almost no mention in the history books.