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Norman Davies Quotes

Traditionally, historians thought in terms of invasions: the Celts took over the islands, then the Romans, then the Anglo-Saxons. It now seems much more likely that the resident population doesn't change as much as thought. The people stay put but are reculturalized by some new dominant culture.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Change Culture People Thought New

Some of you guys are going to boo, but I'm going to say it anyway. I don't like dogs.

You Say Dogs Going Like Some

Believe it or not, I say my prayers in the morning and in the evening.

Morning Believe Evening Say Prayers

Oscar Wilde turned the world upside down and was able to laugh at it, and hopefully by the time I'm 120 and worn out, that's what I will achieve. I love being alive so much.

Love Time World Upside Down Laugh

It is written on the arched sky; it looks out from every star. It is the poetry of Nature; it is that which uplifts the spirit within us.

Nature Sky Poetry Looks Spirit Out

I hit rock bottom, but thank God my bottom wasn't death.

Stevie Ray Vaughan

God Death Thank God Rock Bottom Hit

I couldn't be a Taylor Swift. I would really suck at being Taylor Swift.

Being Suck Would Swift Really

It would be great to see somebody like Kid Rock kissing a man. But I'm sure that he wouldn't like the prospect of it put to him, and I won't even go there with Eminem.

Robbie Williams

Great Man Go Rock Kid See

I got my first book deal when I was in college, but it was published in Germany, and I could never actually read it.

College Book Never First Got Deal

Because Washington state now votes by mail, elections here tend to play out, at an agonizingly slow speed, over many days and, sometimes, weeks.

Slow Speed Play Sometimes Washington

It is one of the great ironies of the American war in Iraq - was that the guys who really got the most out of it were the Iranians. And they have us to thank for that. Yeah, I mean we basically put Maliki in power in 2006, but he has been - he's really not a friend of the United States. He's a friend of the Iranian regime.

Friend Power Great War American Out

In the early part of the '70s, we had glam rock, but we also had reggae and ska happening at the same time. I just took all those influences I had as a kid and threw them together, and somehow it works.

Time Together Early Rock Kid Same

Evolution seems to close the heart to some of the plainest spiritual truths while it opens the mind to the wildest guesses advanced in the name of science.

William Jennings Bryan

Heart Science Spiritual Mind Name

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