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History Book Quotes

We all had to learn Southern accents. It wasn’t a big research show. With the ‘Wounded Knee’ project, I locked myself in my apartment with history books so I would know what we’re talking about Picture Quote #1

Every woman should have a daughter to tell her stories to. Otherwise, the lessons learned are as useless as spare buttons from a discarded shirt. And all that is left is a fading name and the shape of a nose or the color of hair. The men who write the history books will tell you the stories of battles and conquests. But the women will tell you the stories of people’s hearts Picture Quote #1

I myself am convinced that the theory of evolution, especially to the extent to which it has been applied, will be one of the greatest jokes in the history books of the future. Posterity will marvel that so very flimsy and dubious an hypothesis could be accepted with the incredible credulity it has Picture Quote #1

Take a newspaper account of Waterloo or Trafalgar, with all the small advertisements: it seems much more real than reading about it in a history book Picture Quote #1

There’s a difference between knowing what’s on the page in a history book and actually feeling that page have curves and valleys Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

In a typical history book, black Americans are mentioned in the context of slavery or civil rights. There’s so much more to the story Picture Quote #1

I think of an intellectual as just being bookish, being interested in history books, utopian ideas, that kind of thing Picture Quote #1

Life is a wonderful thing to talk about, or to read about in history books - but it is terrible when one has to live it Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

You read about me in history books, but now I am dedicated to spreading the truth about preserving the dignity of all human life from natural conception to natural death Picture Quote #1

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As you go down the rabbit hole of reading into our history, you realize that there are so many things that history books didn’t teach us about ourselves Picture Quote #1

People come from all over the world to see this little place they’ve seen in movies and read about in history books: Soho Picture Quote #1

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We all had to learn Southern accents. It wasn’t a big research show. With the ‘Wounded Knee’ project, I locked myself in my apartment with history books so I would know what we’re talking about (History Book Quotes) Every woman should have a daughter to tell her stories to. Otherwise, the lessons learned are as useless as spare buttons from a discarded shirt. And all that is left is a fading name and the shape of a nose or the color of hair. The men who write the history books will tell you the stories of battles and conquests. But the women will tell you the stories of people’s hearts (History Book Quotes) I myself am convinced that the theory of evolution, especially to the extent to which it has been applied, will be one of the greatest jokes in the history books of the future. Posterity will marvel that so very flimsy and dubious an hypothesis could be accepted with the incredible credulity it has (History Book Quotes) Take a newspaper account of Waterloo or Trafalgar, with all the small advertisements: it seems much more real than reading about it in a history book (History Book Quotes) There’s a difference between knowing what’s on the page in a history book and actually feeling that page have curves and valleys (History Book Quotes) 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 (History Book Quotes) 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 (History Book Quotes) In a typical history book, black Americans are mentioned in the context of slavery or civil rights. There’s so much more to the story (History Book Quotes) I think of an intellectual as just being bookish, being interested in history books, utopian ideas, that kind of thing (History Book Quotes) Life is a wonderful thing to talk about, or to read about in history books - but it is terrible when one has to live it (History Book Quotes) 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 (History Book Quotes) You read about me in history books, but now I am dedicated to spreading the truth about preserving the dignity of all human life from natural conception to natural death (History Book Quotes) As you go down the rabbit hole of reading into our history, you realize that there are so many things that history books didn’t teach us about ourselves (History Book Quotes) People come from all over the world to see this little place they’ve seen in movies and read about in history books: Soho (History Book Quotes)

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