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Norman Davies Quotes

People don't see very often their death coming... Look at the French Revolution: The king of France was thinking in the 1780s, 'We're doing rather better than my father in the 1770s.'

Norman Davies

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: historian
Nationality: british
Birth: June 8, 1939

Topics

Father Death King People Better See

I'm still chasing girls. I don't remember what for, but I'm still chasing them.

Joe E. Lewis

Remember Chasing Still Them

Uggs are comfort shoes, and it's important to have a shoe that gives you a sense of comfort. I have about 15 pair of Uggs - the same shoe, the same color. And I also have the bedroom slippers.

Andre Leon Talley

Shoes Color You Comfort Shoe Same

Jewish history has been in my cultural DNA since I was a child growing up in post-war London. In the midst of that dark, gray, lamenting monochromatic world of the '50s, I had a sense that both Jewish and English history were full of color and light and animation.

Simon Schama

History Light Child Growing Up World

My father was the first entrepreneur in the family. He started his own record label, his own restaurant. He knew that, in order to give something back to the people, he had to create.

Rohan Marley

Family Father People Restaurant Back

Twenty-first century buildings support a 21st century education - because it is difficult to learn or to teach if you are shivering.

Martin O'Malley

Education Support Learn You Teach

The first event I vividly remember was competing at the Junior Olympics in Seattle, Washington. It was my first major competition outside of Texas, and I remember being very nervous. I could not control my nerves, and I threw a few fouls.

Michelle Carter

Competition Control Texas Remember

The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Good Adversity Good Things Prosperity

So many famous iconic American songs are protest songs, and I think that the vast majority of artists will only continue to add to that body of work.

Liv Bruce

Work Think Famous American Body

When characters change on screen, it makes you feel better about yourself. You think, 'Oh I change too, I'm constantly becoming a better person.'

Jason Reitman

Change Yourself Better Person Better

I have two grandchildren. I want to hand them a planet and community that is really thriving.

Donald Berwick

Community Grandchildren Want Hand

The power of a label and radio and a booking agency and all that - you never know until you experience it the first time, but being able to have a song on radio, but then go play a show for people that have heard the song on radio, and having it sung back to you, is - I don't know how to describe it.

Brett Young

Power Time Experience People Song

I'd die if I was Madonna. I'd die. God, what a horrible way to live. And Michael Jackson! To be so famous and to feel so isolated. I feel so bad for them. I don't know how it feels, and I hope it never happens to me.

Alicia Silverstone

Live God Hope Me Feel Die