Quotes & Sayings About Importance Of Remembering History

Writing is hard ... Coal mining is harder. Do you think miners stand around all day talking about how hard it is to mine for coal? They do not. They simply dig. — Cheryl Strayed

City people try to buy time as a rule, when they can, whereas country people are prepared to kill time, although both try to cherish in their mind's eye the notion of a better life ahead. — Edward Hoagland

I'm a better actor now than I ever was, I wish I could have hurried that up, but there's no way. Anyway, I always wanted to be around for a long time. Like a European actor, I hope I live a long time and that I'm acting until I finish. — Christopher Walken

Any fool can have bad luck; the art consists in knowing how to exploit it. — Frank Wedekind

At heart I am a librarian, a bird-watcher, a transcendentalist, a gardener, a spinster, a monk. — Juliana Hatfield

I sound like an evangelist or something. — David Plotz

So for fifteen years she'd been hiding her love for a man who had been hiding his love for her. That meant she'd betrayed the man who loved her. — Brent Weeks

It's so hard to think in winter. The world seems confined in the space of your heart; you can't see beyond yourself. — Patricia A. McKillip

True love doesn't have a happy ending, it had no ending. — Unknwn

I'm not fun to bowl with. I take it way too seriously. I have high expectations for myself. — Chris Hardwick

You're going to act like a happy man. I know, I know. It's the hardest role in the world. — Pat Conroy

True fear is the fear of doubt; it is the mind that will not sleep, the open space at your back where the murderer stands with the axe. It is the gasp of a shadow passed whose cause you cannot see, the laughter of a stranger whose laugh, you know, laughs at you. — Claire North

I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his 'divine service.' — Friedrich Nietzsche

From time immemorial, symbolism and poetry have been inseparable. Like a pirate and his rum. — Haruki Murakami