Febvre Lucien Quotes & Sayings

Fame puts you there where things are hollow. — David Bowie

I don't like to watch golf on television because I can't stand people who whisper. — David Brenner

If you were in a perfected state of consciousness, you would only see perfection in all things. — Frederick Lenz

I was moving forward into space, but i would never come home again — Bryn Greenwood

What a lot of work it was to found the Roman race. — Virgil

Be trustworthy. Steadiness and integrity lead to energetic opening in the other as the blocks in relating dissolve away with deepening trust over time. — John Friend

I grew up in a small village close to a big lake. There are heavy winds there, and they always sound different. I like these sounds best. — Christian Fennesz

When I couldn't speak I was not drawn into silence, silence captured me. — Thomas Harris

I know that ridicule may be a shield, but it is not a weapon. — Dorothy Parker

A ship under sail and a big-bellied woman, Are the handsomest two things that can be seen common. — Benjamin Franklin

If History teaches any lesson at all, it is that there are no historical lessons. — Lucien Febvre

It is never a waste of time to study the history of a word. — Lucien Febvre

Of all parties I now see only one party- The Anarchist- which respects human life, and loudly insists upon the abolition of capital punishment, prison torture and punishment of man by man altogether. — Peter Kropotkin

What better preparation for a history which seeks to bring societies to life and to understand that life than to have really lived, commanded men, suffered with them and shared their joys. — Lucien Febvre

We love our planet Earth. We should - it is our home, and there's no place like home. There can't ever be a better place than Earth. — Dimitar Sasselov

History is the daughter of time. — Lucien Febvre

Baseball always gets credit for the foundational part of masculinity - the father thing. The eternal game of backyard catch, 'Field of Dreams', the Ripkens, the Griffeys, the Bondses, so on. But football is the real paternal game, because it's a conveyor belt of father figures, in the form of coaches. — J.R. Moehringer

A mere collector of supposed facts is as useful as a collector of matchboxes. — Lucien Febvre

A pattern of raised crisscrossed scars, some old and white, others more recent in various shades of pink and red. Exposing the stress of the structure underneath its paint — Amy Efaw