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Oral history interviews allow us to document and chronicle people's stories; stories that might otherwise not be included in the historical record.
— Patricia Leavy
History is something that very few people have been doing while everyone else was ploughing fields and carrying water buckets.
— Yuval Noah Harari
People come and people go, but it's rare that one makes enough of an impact in life, that others will read as history.
— Auliq Ice
History is made by people. And the majority of people are arseholes. Which is I suppose why the majority of history has been so disastrous.
— Ben Elton
To this day, good English usually means the English wealthy and powerful people spoke a generation or two ago.
— Jack Lynch
History shows us that people are terrible about guessing what is going to happen - next week, next month, and especially next year.
— Barry Ritholtz
There are people who will appreciate what I've done, and there will be people who will criticize me. Ultimately history will have the final say.
— Wen Jiabao
Now that we're established and we have a history we know that we can expect people to show up and to have a good time.
— John Petrucci
Great people become great due to the framework, routines and habits they have set for themselves
— Sunday Adelaja
I adored history, not the dry dates and boring battles, but the stories and the people who populated them.
— Deanna Raybourn
Over the course of history, the people who are not scared go into the woods and are mauled by a bear, are not going to survive.
— M. Night Shyamalan
Ryan [Gosling] has a history with the Mickey Mouse Club. He was a child performer himself. And he took the time to get to know people.
— Joel Silver
When the temperamental and unconventional people are not mere plagiarists of dead eccentrics, they lack, in almost every case, thehistoric sense.
— Katharine Fullerton Gerould
Well behaved people and dreamers seldom make history. In fact, history has no place for such people.
— Ziad K. Abdelnour
People sing each other's songs and they cultivate standards. That's the reason why we have folk music and folk stories. History is told through song.
— Brandi Carlile
A culture is not only the language and the arts of a people. It is all their history, all their hopes for the future.
— Robert Payne
The future will use and dispose of the memories of people that we knew as history sees fit.
— David Eisenhower
I always try to put something personal on my albums just to give people out there a little piece of my history and how I got where I am and who I am.
— Randy Houser
Western people are a ritually starved people, and in this are different than most of human history.
— Richard Rohr
I'm not giving up my history and what I've done in my music because I love it and I'm very proud of it. I just want to open it up for more people.
— LL Cool J
It is not a first time in history that we have got people who have sold out and subverted the ideas for which they stood for in the past.
— Auliq Ice
The arc of our history is toward more equality being expanded to more and more people.
— George Takei
Uncertainty and fear and ignorance about immigrants, about people who are different, has a history as old as our Nation.
— Luis Gutierrez
All great people glorify their history and look back upon their early attainments with a spiritualized vision.
— Kelly Miller
The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.
— George Orwell
History was a way to live extra lives, to cheat the limits of flesh and blood, to roll the rock back from the tomb and free the resurrected dead.
— Tony Hendra
There has never been a time in human history where so many people routinely carry recording and surveillance devices.
— Steven Magee
History is littered with people who came up with great ideas and saw others profit from them. You need to make sure you don't join their ranks.
— Joey Reiman
I'm a smart guy, I know the history of this issue and why people care about it.
— Gregg Easterbrook
Home is memory, home is your history, home is where you work. Some people want to abandon it and become truly local. But the questions are all there.
— Toni Morrison
It is the idea of 'People' to treat its material as if it were history and, what is more, as if it were the history of a happy period.
— George W. S. Trow
Anthony imagined a time before all that - a time when people sipped Earl Grey tea on a breeze cooled veranda and looked out upon endless countryside.
— Alan Gibbons
History has repeatedly been changed by people who had the desire and the ability to transfer their convictions and emotions to their listeners.
— Dale Carnegie
They say that happy people have no history, and certainly a happy love has none. They did nothing all day long and yet the days seemed all too short.
— W. Somerset Maugham
I have a long history of being told I have no rhythm, and of people saying 'I've heard chickens sing better than that'.
— Mary Margaret O'Hara
The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history
— Carl T. Rowan
A people without the memories of heroic suffering and sacrifices are a people without a history.
— John Brown Gordon
I'm interested in history, in trying to relate the past to the present and to understand how people thought about their problems and pleasures.
— Claire Tomalin
People's wardrobes in history are something that society and culture imposed. But sexuality is not about the way you dress.
— Riccardo Tisci
We are better people than what these laws represent, and it is time to discard them into the ash heap of history.
— John E. Jones III
Somewhere, all the people we have loved and lost are still among us, in the house that we call history.
— Graham Masterton
If inciting people to do that is terrorism, and if killing those who kill our sons is terrorism, then let history be witness that we are terrorists.
— Osama Bin Laden
History is made and preserved by and for particular classes of people. A camera in some hands can preserve an alternate history.
— David Wojnarowicz
People wait until they have a need for some history and then they customize it to suit their purposes.
— Neal Stephenson
Forty is ... an age at which people have histories and options. At thirty, they had perhaps less history. At fifty, perhaps fewer options.
— Ellen Goodman
History shows that people who save and invest grown and prosper, and the others deteriorate and collapse.
— Jim Rogers
To go again over the history of the struggle of resistance ... and to think 'Where are all these people today Where is the KGB' is very inspiring
— Natan Sharansky
The Postal Service is huge - employing more than a half million people - and its history is long and complicated.
— Elizabeth Warren
Blank-slate friendships were thin and temperamental. She knew that. There was no history there to cement people together, for better or worse.
— Sarah Addison Allen
An ordinary Turk, an ordinary Arab, an ordinary Tunisian can change history. We believe that democracy is good, and that our people deserve it.
— Ahmet Davutoglu
But people tend to forget what isn't in front of their faces, and most of them are too stupid to read their history.
— Darren Pillsbury
History, in a democratic age, tends to become a series of popular apologies, and is inclined to assume that the people can do no wrong.
— Albert Pollard
At a time when Europeans already had a long history of violent contact with Native people, Lewis and Clark made most of their journey in peace.
— Joseph Bruchac
The history of the human race is the history of ordinary people who have overcome their fears and accomplished extraordinary things.
— Brian Tracy
In the course of history many more people have died for their drink and their dope than have died for their religion or their country.
— Aldous Huxley
With the plundered people transferring their energies into relaxed and receptive thoughts, degradation and lust for power produced art.
— Peter Weiss
People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
— James Baldwin
I've always found that the best travelers are the very same people who are intensely interested in the history and culture of their own home city.
— Arthur Frommer
I wanted to write a novel that would make others feel the history: the pain and fear that black people have had to live through in order to endure.
— Octavia E. Butler
Throughout history, people with new ideas - who think differently and try to change things - have always been called troublemakers.
— Richelle Mead
God will use whatever he wants to display his glory. Heavens and stars. History and nations. People and problems.
— Max Lucado
You see, in recent history, the Democrat party has created the illusion that their agenda and their policies are what's best for black people,
— Elbert Guillory
Americans are the nicest, most generous, and sentimental people on earth. Yet Americans have killed more unborn children than any nation in history.
— Walker Percy
Making name for yourself requires you not to stop and consider you have done enough but rather continue to move forward
— Sunday Adelaja
I think I went to Italy initially for the art, architecture, food and history, but I stayed there because of the people in Cortona.
— Frances Mayes
Strange the efforts these people go to in order to make themselves feel part of history and not a piece of the future.
— Pierce Brown
There are two kind of people in the world those who wish to be remembered, and those who are always remembered.
— Kartik Mehta
Patriotism is the admission that people who share a land, a place, and a history have a special obligation to that place and to each other.
— David Ehrenfeld
History is not happenstance: it is conspiratorial. Carefully planned and executed by people in power.
— George Carlin
Through history, people look for something spiritual. The greatest scientists in the world were men of religion and faith, too.
— Kirstie Alley
No people in the history of the world have ever been so misunderstood, so misjudged, and so cruelly maligned.
— John Brown Gordon
I truly believe that the great heroes that create the history of architecture are people who take risks and write to tell about it.
— Peter Eisenman
Crazy and insane are words used throughout history to describe people and ideas that are simply different.
— David Icke
African history is filled with experiences of people shooting their way to power and then splintering into factions, like in Somalia and Liberia.
— George Ayittey
Lots of people in history have only done their jobs and look at the trouble they caused
— Terry Pratchett
I suppose people move on, history moves on, and there will, sadly, always be something more terrible waiting around the corner.
— Hazel Gaynor
We might have been a free and great people together.
— Thomas Jefferson
Since the dawn of history, mankind has honoured and respected brave and honest people.
— Nelson Mandela
People from different parts of the world can respond to the same story if it says something to them about their own history and their own experience.
— Chinua Achebe
I really enjoy watching TV; it offers an amazing window, and its an incredible way of presenting history to young people in particular.
— Kate Williams
History is made only by those people who know the times and seasons.
— Sunday Adelaja
In terms of history and sports, I don't think people will forget.
— Kristine Lilly
The people who have more money and goods than any people in the history of the world spend most of their time worrying about not having enough.
— Jim Wallis
People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history.
— George W. Bush
Calcutta has still not recovered from history: people mourn the past, and abhor it deeply.
— Amit Chaudhuri
China and India are feeding their people for the first time in human history due to free markets, and the Left knows that, and it gets them nervous.
— Dave Brat
Every people has a past, but the dignity of a history comes when a community of scholars devotes itself to chronicling and studying that past.
— Sonia Sotomayor
What happens when good people are put into an evil place? Do they triumph or does the situation dominate their past history and morality?
— Philip Zimbardo
All you have to do is put me in front of the people and put the beat in front of me, and the rest is history.
— Mystikal
Rivers run through our history and folklore, and link us as a people ... We are a nation rich in rivers.
— Charles Kuralt
And for what portion of human history had people even had desk jobs?
— Rebecca Makkai
People need their history like they need air and food.
— Randall Robinson
History is ours, and it is made by the people.
— Salvador Allende
[As a child] I was very interested in books that detailed injustice and how people who are underdogs were mistreated throughout history.
— Ralph Nader
I have full faith in my people that they will rise to every occasion worthy of our past Islamic history, glory and traditions.
— Muhammad Ali Jinnah
When self-important people and powerful institutions are governed by illusion, history has a way of biting back.
— William Greider
Successful people pay more attention to their visions and goals than to history and the opinions of others.
— Alan Cohen
Happy is the people that is without history. And thrice is the people without sociology.
— Christopher Henry Dawson