Microhistory Topics Quotes & Sayings

There is only one way to learn. It's through action. Everything you need to know you have learned through your journey. — Paulo Coelho

Where you look you follow so never look back and never look down. This quote is especially useful if you happen to be riding a horse. — Maureen Gregory

There
is not a person alive who is not capable of greatly contributing to the
well - being of this planet. Just changing your attitude can affect the
world around you. — Susan Jeffers

I come from a family where the only emotion respectable to show is irritation. In some this tendency produces hives, in others literature, in me both. — Flannery O'Connor

Some players need a boot up their backside. Other players need the arm — Alan Brazil

I don't write my standup on paper or anything; but I just organically do it on stage, have an idea, chat it up a little bit. I'm keeping notes. I'm trying to keep up with this world and try to bring out a special every year. — Jim Jefferies

There are certainly stories that I used to tell myself as a kid that did influence 'The Cabinet of Wonders.' There's a scene in the novel where there's a flood that bursts through the castle, and one of my favorite things to do when I was a kid at school was imagine what school would be like if there was a sudden flood. — Marie Rutkoski

She should have done science, not spent all her time with her head in novels. Novels gave you a completely false idea about life, they told lies and they implied there were endings when in reality there were no endings, everything just went on and on and on. — Kate Atkinson

In America today, a young person needs more education after high school just to have a chance to make it in the middle class. Not a guarantee, just a chance to make it. — Elizabeth Warren

Instead of destroying an area for a paltry amount of oil, we should be increasing fuel standards for automobiles and focusing our efforts on biofuels and other alternatives. — Raul Grijalva

I would ask my teacher a question," Yehonala said.
"Ask," Lady Miao replied. She was brushing fine quick strokes upon a large sheet of paper spread upon a square table which the eunuch had brought to her side.
"When may I paint a picture of my own?" Yehonala asked. Her teacher held her hand poised for an instant and cast a sidelong look from her narrowed eyes. "When I can no longer command you. — Pearl S. Buck

I really hate it when people ask me who my icons are. When your parents are Bianca and Mick, you don't really need any more icons in your life. — Jade Jagger

Few lack talent, but most people lack the vision & perseverance to develop their talents. — Orrin Woodward