Historical Figure Quotes

• Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Death, Running

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 2, sc. 2, l. 30

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• I can not give you the reference of Ram Chandar or Krishna, because they were not historical figures. I can not help it but to present to you the names of (Hazrat) Abu Bakar (RA) and (Hazrat) Umar Farooq (RA). They were leaders of a vast Empire, yet they lived a life of austerity.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Names, Giving, Leader

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• No one can take Jesus away from me.... There's no doubt there was a historical figure of tremendous importance, with enormous notions. Such as peace.

  Peter O'Toole

  Jesus, Historical, Doubt

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• There are dozens of writings outside of the Bible that verify the historical accuracy of many of the names of people, places, and events mentioned in the Bible. In fact, external sources verify that at least eighty persons mentioned in the Bible were actual historical figures. Fifty people from the Old Testament, and thirty people from the New Testament.

  Charlie Campbell

  Bible, Writing, Names

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• Christ ought to be preached with this goal in mind--that we might be moved to faith in him so that he is not just a distant historical figure but actually Christ for you and me.

  Martin Luther

  Goal, Historical, Mind

  Martin Luther (2012). “Martin Luther's Basic Theological Writings”, p.860, Fortress Press

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• I think that Malcolm X was the most remarkable historical figure produced by Black America in the 20th century.

  Manning Marable

  Thinking, America, Historical

  Source: historynewsnetwork.org

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• One trouble with growing old is that it gets progressively tougher to find a famous historical figure, who didn't amount to much when he was your age.

  E. W. Howe

  Historical, Age, Growing

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• Jesus is an historical figure for me, and he's also a bridge between God and man, in the Christian faith, and one that I think is powerful precisely because he serves as that means of us reaching something higher.

  Barack Obama

  Christian, Jesus, Powerful

  "Transcript: Barack Obama and The God Factor Interview" by Cathleen Falsani, sojo.net. February 21, 2012.

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• Unless I'm writing trying to write about a historical figure, I don't really set out to read or research with a specific topic in mind.

  Christine Sneed

  Writing, Historical, Mind

  Source: therumpus.net

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• My friends in prison were mostly women more like myself: not historical figures who I did not relate to as peers, but hookers and addicts.

  Patricia McConnell

  Historical, Peers, Prison

  Source: therumpus.net

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• When I was seven years old, I fell in love with a series published by Bobbs-Merrill called 'The Childhood of Famous Americans.' In it, historical figures like Clara Barton, Nancy Hanks, Elias Howe, Patrick Henry, and dozens more came to life for me as children.

  Ann Hood

  Children, Years, Childhood

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• I find historical figures in general very tricky because you feel at times that you're serving two masters. Not only the arc and wonderful writing that comes with the show, but also the history of a person's life.

  Vincent Piazza

  Writing, Two, Historical

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• I feel a great responsibility playing a historical figure because whether they were good or bad, I feel like the person deserves a fair shake. It's like being the executor of their estate in some ways.

  Vincent Piazza

  Responsibility, Historical, Way

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• To be a writer was always my greatest aim. I remember writing a play about Guy Fawkes when I was 10. I suppose it's significant, at least to me, that my first work should be about a historical figure.

  Peter Ackroyd

  Writing, Play, Guy

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• Jesus was a white man, too. Its like we have, hes a historical figure thats a verifiable fact, as is Santa, I just want kids to know that. How do you revise it in the middle of the legacy in the story and change Santa from white to black?

  Megyn Kelly

  Jesus, Kids, Men

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• A collection of masks, depicting historical figures in life and what I like to call the eternal repose.

  Wes Craven

  Historical, Mask, Figures

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• Roger Casement is an intriguing figure - humanitarian, Irish revolutionary, gay - and much had and would be written about him, there was something about his character as a conflicted man, an Irish Protestant who spent much of his time representing England in different African nations, a gay man who, true to the times, kept his sexual orientation to himself, that kept playing in my head. I read on and around him, but a historical figure is not a story - it's not even a character - so my story, the one that I would develop into Valiant Gentlemen, had yet to reveal itself.

  Sabina Murray

  Character, Gay, Men

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Now, what does a vampire do with a computer? Keep track of investments? Send e-mail to other vampires as you all plot to take over the world?” “I spend a lot of time on Wikipedia making corrections to the entries of historical figures I’ve known.” I blinked at him. “Really?” “No, Kitty. That was a joke.

  Carrie Vaughn

  Track, Historical, Vampire

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• That Krishna himself was a historical figure is indeed quite indubitable.

  Rudolf Otto

  Historical, Krishna, Figures

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• One of the many troubles of growing older is that it gets progressively harder to find a famous historical figure who hadn't yet amounted to anything by the time he was your age.

  Sebastian Horsley

  Historical, Age, Growing

  Sebastian Horsley (2016). “Dandy in the Underworld”, p.234, Hachette UK

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• If we could view Muhammad as we do any other important historical figure we would surely consider him to be one of the greatest geniuses the world has known.

  Karen Armstrong

  Views, Historical, Important

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• How does a country deal with the fact that some of its most revered historical figures had certain moral values and political views virtually identical to Nazis?

  Robert Jensen

  Country, Views, Political

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• I have a bee in my bonnet as to how few black historical figures one sees on film; incredible stories, stories from which we are living the legacy and which just don't get made.

  David Oyelowo

  Historical, Black, Legacy

  "'In my head, this is massive'". Interview with Emma John, www.theguardian.com. August 1, 2005.

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• The story of Jesus is very fascinating. It still has such a tremendous power, even after 2,000 years! We don't really know if he existed as a historical figure.

  Bjorn Ulvaeus

  Jesus, Power, Years

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• In the first few pages, Kundera discusses several abstract historical figures: Robespierre, Nietzsche, Hitler. For Eunice's sake, I wanted him to get to the plot, to introduce actual "living" characters - I recalled this was a love story - and to leave the world of ideas behind. Here we were, two people lying in bed, Eunice's worried head propped on my collarbone, and I wanted us to feel something in common. I wanted this complex language, this surge of intellect, to be processed into love. Isn't that how they used to do it a century ago, people reading poetry to one another?

  Gary Shteyngart

  Love, Lying, Reading

  Gary Shteyngart (2010). “Super Sad True Love Story: A Novel”, p.339, Random House

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