Historical Quotes

People should have freedom in their pilgrimages and tours. They should come and visit historical monuments and sites - let's say the sites around Iran - where they can easily engage in wide- scale contacts with others.

I love England and the historical aspect of it.

I've been impressed, over the last 15 years, with how often the somewhat conspiratorial comments of Haitian villagers have been proven to be correct when the historical record is probed carefully.

I love historical romance, absolutely love it.

Many of America's historical cornbreads were staple breads for people who didn't have many other options.

Today, in American imperialism, the commodity has reached its most grandiose historical manifestation.

I see a lot of patterns in our behavior as a nation that parallel a lot of other historical processes.

The same historical development that turned the citizen into a client transformed the worker from a producer into a consumer.

Do not separate text from historical background. If you do, you will have perverted and subverted the Constitution, which can only end in a distorted, bastardized form of illegitimate government.

All confessions are Odysseys.

I will be a historical painter.

In a continent but recently settled, many parts of which have as yet little historical or cultural background, the material for this volume has been gathered from a section that was one of the first to be colonized.

Anti-Semitism has no historical, political and certainly no philosophical origins. Anti-Semitism is a disease.

The Sixties are now considered a historical period, just like the Roman Empire.

I am not someone who believes I am going to find a historical scoop.

The historical orthodox Christian faith is extremely wide and diverse.

A historical romance is the only kind of book where chastity really counts.

I have long been active in and supportive of conservation and historical preservation causes.

I have certainly amassed many historical research gathering skills.

Actually my first eight books were historical novels, but they were never published.

One thing I like about historical fiction is that I'm not constantly focusing on me, or people like me; you're obliged to concentrate on lives that are completely other than your own.

Familiar life, tending to sordidness, had been succeeded by remote life, generally idealized; historical detail had been brought in to teach readers who were being entertained.

It can be a long gap between the emergence of fully researched historical biographies.

I invented the historical spy novel.

I visit English country churchyards where historical figures are buried.