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The histories of vampires and people are not so different, really. How many of us can honestly see our own reflection?
— Lynda Barry
Everything characters say or do is a clue to their personalities, their histories, and the forces that motivate them.
— William G. Tapply
In a real relationship the two of you are together, meeting without your histories.
— John De Ruiter
In the late 1990s, I left the teaching field to write biographies and histories for young adults.
— Charles J. Shields
The only good histories are those that have been written by the persons themselves who commanded in the affairs whereof they write.
— Michel De Montaigne
I use contemporary media to reanimate sites and places with images of their own lost histories.
— Shimon Attie
There are two histories : official history, lying, and then secret history, where you find the real causes of events.
— Honore De Balzac
Whether histories have a happy ending or not depends on when the chronicler ends the tale.
— Linda Gordon
Usually, ordinary histories don't get the emotional feel of a period. That's what a novel can do.
— Alix Kates Shulman
Eating connects us to our histories as much as it connects our souls to our bodies, our bodies to the earth.
— Evan D.G. Fraser
All the ancient histories, as one of our wits say, are just fables that have been agreed upon
— Voltaire
Unloved women have no biographiesthey have histories — F Scott Fitzgerald
Our histories cling to us. We are shaped by where we come from.
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Our histories plan our futures.
— Robyn Carr
Recounting their histories, people often sound like interested bystanders to their own lives.
— Hugh Mackay
These cultures come and go for a boundless enthusiasim for histories that might have never existed
— J.J. Ratter
Wild things are made from human histories.
— Helen Macdonald
There are not two histories, one profane and one sacred, 'juxtaposed' or 'closely linked.' Rather there is only one human destiny.
— Gustavo Gutierrez
I could never figure out why photography and art had separate histories. So I decided to explore both.
— John Baldessari
Why the histories of states should have so persistently insinuated themselves in the place that might have been occupied by peoples merits reflection.
— James C. Scott
I know of two tragic histories in the world - that of Ireland, and that of Macedonia. Both of them have been deprived and tormented
— Roger Casement
There is no history, only histories.
— Karl Popper
I lived in Calcutta for five months in 1999. While I was there, I read many journals, diaries, collections of letters and histories.
— Susanna Moore
Histories don't make men; men make histories.
— Ogwo David Emenike
Maybe this is what it meant to be a citizen of a place - bonded to each other by the histories thrust upon us.
— Shawna Yang Ryan
If we could read the past histories of all our enemies we would disregard all hostility for them.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
Ritual is important to us as human beings. It ties us to our traditions and our histories.
— Miller Williams
It would be like a Hardy novel, before it all goes wrong.
— Kate Atkinson
We have bodies. We have personalities. We have histories, stories and experiences. But we are not those things - we are Spirit.
— Sonia Choquette
Because we are all of an oral tradition in our beginning histories, the voice of the poet in this particular society will be heard.
— John Trudell
Our national parks are memory palaces where our personal histories reside.
— Terry Tempest Williams
The histories of the poor and the powerless are as important as those of their conquerors, their colonizers, their kings and queens.
— Johnnetta B. Cole
I understand his fear. Who are we if not a product of our parents and their histories?
— Nicola Yoon
Not stories, but histories. For this too I learned, that a storyteller's tale may end, but history goes on always.
— Jacqueline Carey
Histories are instruments of oppression.
— Catherynne M Valente
Sin writes histories, goodness is silent.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
I think of my work as a kind of peeling back of the wallpaper of today to reveal the histories buried underneath.
— Shimon Attie
Histories are like novels in that they set out to provide more or less comprehensive accounts of social systems.
— Mikhail Bakhtin
Buy companies with strong histories of profitability and with a dominant business franchise.
— Warren Buffett
We are anxious in the face of our unchangeable past; we long to recreate segments of our private histories, but we are stuck with them.
— Lewis B. Smedes
I've had the most untraumatic life a human being can have. But I've always been drawn to those who have had far more complicated histories.
— Malcolm Gladwell
Every day / a few billion histories fail to occur.
— Lawrence Raab
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
I have to erase my Google search histories, because they always lead to an obituary.
— Carrie Brownstein
What is all our histories, but God showing himself, shaking and trampling on everything that he has not planted.
— Oliver Cromwell
Our shadows are our histories. We drag them everywhere.
— Anthony Doerr