history Quotes

Who put their foot in the Missouri River first: Lewis or Clark? Who cares!

I understand that Detroit was a pretty rough place to grow up in the '70s and '80s.

When President Kennedy took office, I was in the midst of my education.

I remember it was hard to believe that I was taking a step onto the lunar surface.

Nobody ever asks who was the seventh person on the Moon. The only thing they know is who's number one and who's number two. Does anybody know who the last man was?

Fiction is no longer the dominant storytelling device of our time. In the 19th century it worked great, and fiction was the king, but it's not the king any more.

Where would Jesus be if no one had written the gospels?

The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes.

To compare Tensegrity with yoga or t'ai chi is not possible. It has a different origin and a different purpose. The origin is shamanic, the purpose is shamanic.

Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real needs and compulsions, of real interests and materials, is indirect because the crowd is never conscious of it.