Favorite biography quotes

A photograph is a biography of a moment. After experiencing a past life as a Native American, I remembered what the Indians believed. I'm not a very good writer. In a nutshell, I am not unaware of my failings. Friedrich Nietzsche Philologist.

Short famous history quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old biography quotes, biography sayings, and biography proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources. John Arbuthnot. No number of bullet points and biography facts could pin the soul behind the eyes. Essays "History" Give myself the kind of beginning worthy of the Biography Channel.

Your past doesn't define who you are. Wherever the poetry of myth is interpreted as biography, history, or science, it is killed. How exhausted I am suddenly! Henry Ward Beecher 0 Copy. And the novels, without meaning to, inevitably lie. Welcome back Email. We believe in a personal, unique, and separate identity — but if we dare to examine it, we find that this identity depends entirely on an endless collection of things to prop it up: our name, our "biography," our partners, family, home, job, friends, credit cards… It is on their fragile and transient support that we rely for our security.

If you read the biography of any great man, you will always notice two things: His mother's contribution in his progress and his teacher's contribution in his growth and development. And as for biographies, we are living with the consequences of all the decisions ever made in them. Biography isn't Destiny. Science , Terror. Resilience, inventiveness, and survivorship--qualities often ascribed to great physicians--are reflected qualities, emanating first from those who struggle with illness and only then mirrored by those who treat them.

There would be love stories when she came into adolescence and when she wanted to feel a closeness to someone she could read a biography. Books became her friends and there was one for every mood. From a man to an animal to a fairy.

Unique quotes on life

They're either good or bad, and this one was definitely the latter. There's a Good Book about goodness and how to be good and so forth, but there's no Evil Book about how to be evil and how to be bad. Your biography becomes your biology.