History is on every occasion the record of that which one age finds worthy of note in another. — Jacob Burckhardt
History is the story of events, with praise or blame. — Cotton Mather
A trusty comrade is always of use; and a chronicler still more so. — Arthur Conan Doyle
Historia (Inquiry); so that the actions of of people will not fade with time. — Herodotus
My sketchbook is a witness of what I am experiencing, scribbling things whenever they happen. — Vincent Van Gogh
Every man is a diary in which he writes one story while intending to write another. His humblest moment is when he compares the two — Hugh B. Brown
The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it. — John M. Barrie
History is a symphony of echoes heard and unheard. It is a poem with events as verses. — Charles Angoff
Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us. — Oscar Wilde
Like ultraviolet rays memory shows to each man in the book of life a script that invisibly and prophetically glosses the text. — Walter Benjamin
We must cherish our inheritance. We must preserve our nationality for the youth of our future. The story should be written down to pass on. — Louis Riel
Short Chronicle Quotes
But you be strong and do not lose courage, for there is reward for your work. 2 Chronicles 15:7 — Bible
We earth men have a talent for ruining big, beautiful things. — Ray Bradbury
Stuff your eyes with wonder. — Ray Bradbury
Life is easy to chronicle, but bewildering to practice. — E. M. Forster
Marriage made people old and familiar, while still young. — Ray Bradbury
The Universe has shouted itself alive. We are one of the shouts. — Ray Bradbury
We are the miracle of force and matter making itself over into imagination and will. — Ray Bradbury
The Bible is the great family chronicle of the Jews. — Heinrich Heine
Memnoch the Devil happen to be my favorite of all The Vampire Chronicles. — Anne Rice
Chronicles are not explanatory of what they record. — Gilbert Ryle
Martian Chronicles Quotes
Why live? Life was its own answer. Life was the propagation of more life and the living of as good a life as possible. — Ray Bradbury
Death doesn't exist. It never did, it never will. But we've drawn so many pictures of it, so many years, trying to pin it down, comprehend it, we've got to thinking of it as an entity, strangely alive and greedy. All it is, however, is a stopped watch, a loss, an end, a darkness. Nothing. — Ray Bradbury
There was always a minority afraid of something, and a great majority afraid of the dark, afraid of the future, afraid of the past, afraid of the present, afraid of themselves and shadows of themselves — Ray Bradbury
Science is no more than an investigation of a miracle we can never explain, and art is an interpretation of that miracle. — Ray Bradbury
I have something to fight for and live for; that makes me a better killer. I've got what amounts to a religion , now . — Ray Bradbury
The Martians were there - in the canal - reflected in the water.... The Martians stared back up at them for a long, long silent time from the rippling water. — Ray Bradbury
I'm being ironic. Don't interrupt a man in the midst of being ironic, it's not polite. There! — Ray Bradbury
I'm not anyone, I'm just myself; whatever I am, I am something, and now I'm something you can't help. — Ray Bradbury
Can't you recognize the human in the inhuman? — Ray Bradbury
Millions of students now, in all the schools of America, are reading science fiction and especially, thank God, 'The Martian Chronicles.' — Ray Bradbury
Chronically Quotes
Just as food causes chronic disease, it can be the most powerful cure — Hippocrates
The weaker we feel, the harder we lean. And the harder we lean, the stronger we grow spiritually, even while our bodies waste away. — J. I. Packer
Twenty million more have Chronic Kidney Disease, where patients experience a gradual deterioration of kidney function, the end result of which is kidney failure. — Xavier Becerra
The weaker we feel, the harder we lean on God. And the harder we lean the stronger we grow. — Joni Eareckson Tada
They botched one of the two surgeries and created a hernia. You can't treat chronic pain with surgery. — Eric Berg
Drop face, soft belly. The face is usually wearing a mask to signal to others. The belly is often chronically tensed in a fight-or-flight response. — Naval Ravikant
Addressing chronic conditions often requires understanding individual nutrient processing differences. — Gary Brecka
Cavities are the #1 chronic disease worldwide despite all our public health efforts. New study finds that people sleeping < 7 hours had more cavities. People with more than 10 teeth decayed, missing or filled had considerably LOWER levels of melatonin in their saliva. —
The day will come when all nations amidst which the Jews are dwelling will have to raise the question of their wholesale expulsion, a question which will be one of life or death, good health or chronic disease, peaceful existence or perpetual social fever. — Franz Liszt
Just saying no prevents teenage pregnancy the way 'Have a nice day' cures chronic depression. — Faye Wattleton
I see things going on before my eyes and I photograph them as they are, without trying to change them. I don't warn people beforehand. That's why I'm a chronicler. I speak about us and I speak about myself. — Martin Parr
So all hail the honorable, microphone phenomenal
Persona is unbombable? Trust me son,
I continue like a saga do, bringin' you the drama to
allow you that the chronicle has just begun. — Rakim
God knows that some of the greatest souls who have ever lived are those who will never appear in the chronicles of history. They are the blessed, humble souls who emulate the Savior’s example and spend the days of their lives doing good. — Dieter F. Uchtdorf
Love is friendship that has caught fire. ... Love is content with the present, it hopes for the future, and it doesn't brood over the past. It's the day-in and day-out chronicle of irritations, problems, compromises, small disappointments, big victories and working toward common goals. If you have love in your life it can make up for a great many things you lack. If you don't have it, no matter what else there is, it's not enough. — Ann Landers
I'm not asking you to describe the rain falling the night the archangel arrived; I'm demanding that you get me wet. Make up your mind, Mr. Writer, and for once in your life be the flower that smells rather than the chronicler of the aroma. There's not much pleasure in writing what you live. The challenge is to live what you write. — Eduardo Galeano
The day when we shall know exactly what electricity is will chronicle an event probably greater, more important than any other recorded in the history of the human race. The time will come when the comfort, the very existence, perhaps, of man will depend upon that wonderful agent. — Nikola Tesla
Newspapers. . . give us the bald, sordid, disgusting facts of life. They chronicle, with degrading avidity, the sins of the second-rate, and with the conscientiousness of the illiterate give us accurate and prosaic details. . . — Oscar Wilde
History is no longer just a chronicle of kings and statesmen, of people who wielded power, but of ordinary women and men engaged in manifold tasks. Women's history is an assertion that women have a history. — Toshiko Kishida
I'm used to writing songs and songs-I can fill em up with symbolism and metaphors. When you write a book (Chronicles, Vol. 1), you gotta tell the truth, and it can't be misinterpreted. — Bob Dylan
It is right that he too should have his little chronicle, his memories, his reason, and be able to recognize the good in the bad, the bad in the worst, and so grow gently old down all the unchanging days, and die one day like any other day, only shorter. — Samuel Beckett
I loved fantasy, but I particularly loved the stories in which somebody got out of where they were and into somewhere better - as in the Chronicles Of Narnia, The Wizard Of Oz, The Phantom Tollbooth, the Dungeons & Dragons cartoon. — Lev Grossman
I rarely think about my childhood. It's a slippery thing I can't keep hold of for long - it slithers out of my grasp. And a lot of the time I remember what was missing instead of what was there. I am a chronicler of absence. — Carrie Fisher
Even sad stories are company. And perhaps that's why you might read such a chronicle, to look into a companionable darkness that isn't yours. — Mark Doty
In what bold relief stand out the lives of all walkers of the snow! The snow is a great tell-tale, and blabs as effectually as it obliterates. I go into the woods, and know all that has happened. I cross the fields, and if only a mouse has visited his neighbor, the fact is chronicled. — John Burroughs
DAYS THAT I'LL REMEMBER is a lovingly assembled and beautifully written collection of conversations, observations, and memories of music, friendship, and days gone by. It's good to be back again with John Lennon, his beloved Yoko Ono, and his trusted chronicler and friend Jonathan Cott. — Martin Scorsese
Now, Watson,” said Holmes, as a tall dog-cart dashed up through the gloom, throwing out two golden tunnels of yellow light from its side lanterns. “You’ll come with me, won’t you?” “If I can be of use.” “Oh, a trusty comrade is always of use; and a chronicler still more so. My room at The Cedars is a double-bedded one. — Arthur Conan Doyle
In the oldest chronicles of the times conserved in Hungary, reports will be found of Gypsy music, but never of any other, either Magyar, Slavic or Jewish. — Franz Liszt
I have been reading Madame Roland's memoirs and have come to the conclusion that she was a very over-rated woman; snobbish, vain, sentimental, envious - rather a German type. Her last days before her execution were spent in chronicling petty social snubs or triumphs of many years back. She was a democrat chiefly from envy of the noblesse. — Madame Roland
Something about the possession of a book - an object that can contain infinite fables, words of wisdom, chronicles of times gone by, humorous anecdotes and divine revelation - endows the reader with the power of creating a story, and the listener with a sense of being present at the moment of creation. — Alberto Manguel
Someone asked me recently, "Do you get sick of people asking you about your hair?" And the reason I don't is because I actually feel like you could chronicle my journey of self-acceptance through my journey with my hair. It's a badge of something bigger. — Tracee Ellis Ross
The Old Testament, as everyone who has looked into it is aware, drips with blood; there is, indeed, no more bloody chronicle in all the literature of the world. — H. L. Mencken
Once upon a time . . .” “In the beginning was . . .” That’s the way it always starts off. Every story, gospel, history, chronicle, myth, legend, folktale, or old wives’ tale blues riff begins with “Woke up this mornin’. . . . — Steven Tyler
A journalist is basically a chronicler, not an interpreter of events. Where else in society do you have the license to eavesdrop on so many different conversations as you have in journalism? Where else can you delve into the life of our times? — Bill Moyers
Many heroes lived before Agamemnon; but all are unknown and unwept, extinguished in everlasting night, because they have no spirited chronicler. — Horace
Turned the wrong way around, the relentless unforeseen was what we schoolchildren studied in "History", harmless history, where everything unexpected in its own time is chronicled on the page as inevitable. The terror of the unforeseen is what the science of history hides, turning a disaster into an epic. — Philip Roth
Aldous Huxley took the drug mescaline and then chronicled his experience in the book The Doors of Perception. Now, I don't actually think that's the first thing he wrote: he probably wrote 'my brain is melting' ten thousand times, but it was the book that the critics latched on to. — Bill Bailey
I make films because I have not learned anything else and I know I can do it to a certain degree. And it is my duty because this might be the inner chronicle of what we are. We have to articulate ourselves, otherwise we would be cows in the field. — Werner Herzog
Darwin begins by assuming life upon the earth; the Bible reveals the source of life and chronicles its creation. — William Jennings Bryan
Many brave men lived before Agamemnon; but, all unwept and unknown, are lost in the distant night, since they are without a divine poet (to chronicle their deeds). — Horace
Such bickerings to recount, met often in these our writers, what more worth is it than to chronicle the wars of kites or crows flocking and fighting in the air? — John Milton
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