"Peter Jones's is a vital public service. He reminds us that while we shouldn't live in the past, we are wiser and stronger when we live with it."

-- Bettany Hughes

#Past Quotes #History Quotes #Stronger Quotes

“My father was champion of North Africa and he beat the European champ. He was very good, a professional for 12 years. We're from a big family of boxers. My father has seven brothers.”
“I enjoy doing the research of nonfiction; that gives me some pleasure, being a detective again.”

Source : Interview with Ann Bruns, www.bookreporter.com. May 17, 2002.
“To be happy, you must live in, but not for, the present moment.”
“Heretofore there has always been in the history of the world a comparatively unoccupied land westward, into which the crowded countries of the East have poured their surplus populations.”

Source : Josiah Strong (1891). “Our Country, Its Possible Future and Its Present Crisis”
“I like the OMG Girlz. They're real and they're friends.”
“Receiving both the Coretta Scott King - Virginia Hamilton Award for Lifetime Achievement and the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award suggests I have succeeded, at least in terms of my own goals, in my intent to make art that moves children.”

Source : Source: www.teachingbooks.net
“I was often the only white girl in the Indian dance class. That felt funny, but doing Indian dance was great.”
“For in and out, above, about, below, 'Tis nothing but a Magic Shadow-show, Played in a Box whose Candle is the Sun, Round which we Phantom Figures come and go.”

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