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“I just wanted to do something important.”
― Norman Rockwell, Norman Rockwell: My Adventures as an Illustrator

“I am seeking to rescue the poor stockinger, the Luddite cropper, the “obsoleteâ€� hand-loom weaver, the “utopianâ€� artisan, and even the deluded follower of Joanna Southcott, from the enormous condescension of posterity. Their crafts and traditions may have been dying. Their hostility to the new industrialism may have been backward-looking. Their communitarian ideals may have been fantasies. Their insurrectionary conspiracies may have been foolhardy. But they lived through these times of acute social disturbance, and we did not. Their aspirations were valid in terms of their own experienceâ€�”
― E.P. Thompson, The Making of the English Working Class

“The Enlightenment may have made its most lasting impact in the way we live and think today through its social history. Our institutions and laws, our conception of the state, and our political sensitivity all stem from Enlightenment ideasâ€� Remarkably enough, at the center of these ideas stands the age-old concept of natural law. Much if the Enlightenment’s innovation in in political theory may be traced to a change in the interpretation of that concept.”
― Louis Dupré

“We are sitting on top of a vast cultural and historical pyramid of accumulated misconceptions, lies and myths, built one on top of the other.”
― Bryant McGill, Voice of Reason

“The dining-room was in the good taste of the period. It was very severe. There was a high dado of white wood and a green paper on which were etchings by Whistler in neat black frames. The green curtains with their peacock design, hung in straight lines, and the green carpet, in the pattern of which pale rabbits frolicked among leafy trees, suggested the influence of William Morris. There was blue delft on the chimneypiece. At that time there must have been five hundred dining-rooms in London decorated in exactly the same manner. It was chaste, artistic, and dull.”
― W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence

“Dinner is the most like jazz of all the meals, in that jazz is part form and part improvisation. You decide what you’re going to have, and then while you’re preparing it â€� because it’s the end of the day and you have the time â€� you have the room to consider things about it, to change things about it. You make it something new. “I think I’ll add a little chili powder.â€�
~ Seth Asa, age 37
From Dinnertimes: Stories of American Life, 1912 to 2012”
― Deborah L. Halliday

“We do not teach history; we recreate the experience. We follow the chain of consequences - the tracks of the beast in its forest. Look behind our words and you see the broad sweep of social behavior that no historian has ever touched.”
― Frank Herbert, Chapterhouse: Dune

“One odd thing Yencken noticed was how much blonder the nation had become since he was last there. According to official statistics over 10 million packets of hair dye were sold in 1934”
― Julia Boyd, Travellers in the Third Reich

“From the summer of 1909 to the end of 1911, New York waist makers - young immigrants, mostly women - achieved something profound. They were a catalyst for the forces of change: the drive for women's rights (and other civil rights), the rise of unions, and the use of activist government to address social problems.”
― David von Drehle, Triangle: The Fire That Changed America

“Norman Rockwell saved my life.”
― Jane Allen Petrick, Hidden in Plain Sight: The Other People in Norman Rockwell's America

“To us children he (Mr Ewing) was our very own ‘Mr Chipsâ€� and invariably we would each receive half a crown whenever we encountered him on his afternoon walk. If we were particularly lucky, he would send us to the ‘Big Houseâ€� for ice-cream â€� a rare treat in the early 1950s”
― Bill Scott

“Overlooked in this ominous depiction might be our country’s best- kept secret: in dealing with the most challenging issues of every gener- ation, resistance to duplicitous civil authority and its corporate enablers has defined our quintessential American story.”
― Jeff Biggers, Resistance: Reclaiming an American Tradition

“Tell the Truth. Make it Special.

Life’s a Beach. And then you Drown.

Good Ideas cost no more than Bad Ones.”
― Justin Allison

“The sparkle and morning-freshness of the shop, and the butter-conjuring girl, formed a mind-picture which accompanied the whole of my youth.(about the Buttercup Dairy)”
― Muriel Spark, Curriculum Vitae: Autobiography

“What a phoney sense of belonging all this is, this which is offered by the public pals of this publicly gregarious age; it would be better to feel anonymous; one might then be moved to some useful action to improve matters.”
― Hoggart, Richard

“One odd thing Yencken noticed was how much blonder the nation had become. According to official statistics over 10 million packets of hair dye were sold in 1934”
― Julia Boyd, Travellers in the Third Reich

“Dinner is the most like jazz of all the meals, in that jazz is part form and part improvisation. You decide what you’re going to have, and then while you’re preparing it â€� because it’s the end of the day and you have the time â€� you have the room to consider things about it, to change things about it. You make it something new. ‘I think I’ll add a little chili powder.’â€�
~ Seth Asa, age 37
Dinnertimes: Stories of American Life, 1912 to 2012”
― Deborah L Halliday

“Dinner is the most like jazz of all the meals, in that jazz is part form and part improvisation. You decide what you’re going to have, and then while you’re preparing it â€� because it’s the end of the day and you have the time â€� you have the room to consider things about it, to change things about it. You make it something new. “I think I’ll add a little chili powder.â€�
~ Seth Asa, age 37
From Dinnertimes: Stories of American Life, 1912 to 2012”
― Deborah L. Halliday

“Along the way I kept running across wonderful bits of information about the women - virtually always women - who produced these textiles and about the values that different societies put on the products and their makers. When I talked about my work, people seemed especially eager for these vignettes, stories that told of women's lives thousands of years ago.”
― Elizabeth Wayland Barber, Women's Work: The First 20,000 Years: Women, Cloth, and Society in Early Times

“Because neither corn nor wheat grew well in the Adirondacks, the favored crop was potatoes ("Our food was mostly fish and potatoes then for a change we would have potatoes and fish," recalled one early inhabitant), occasionally supplemented by peas, rye, buckwheat, or oats.”
― Karl Jacoby, Crimes Against Nature: Squatters, Poachers, Thieves, and the Hidden History of American Conservation

“Do try The House by fresh new author, Susannah Mansfield, it's funny, sad and very different, you'll love the characters and the stories.”
― Susannah Mansfield

“Dinner is the most like jazz of all the meals, in that jazz is part form and part improvisation. You decide what you’re going to have, and then while you’re preparing it â€� because it’s the end of the day and you have the time â€� you have the room to consider things about it, to change things about it. You make it something new. “I think I’ll add a little chili powder.â€�
~ Seth Asa, age 37
From Dinnertimes: Stories of American Life, 1912 to 2012”
― Deborah L Halliday

“Even though it is black, black as Egypt’s night, the customer is always right”
― Andrew Ewing

“It was to be the longest flight I had ever made in my young life and one of the most interesting. Having always been interested in the magic of aviation I knew that the DC-6B, I boarded was an approximately 75 seat, trans-ocean, Pan Am Clipper. It would also be the last long distance propeller driven commercial airliner. The only difference between it and the DC-6A was that it didn’t have a large cargo door in its side, and it was also approximately 5 feet longer than the DC-6A.
1955 was a good year and people felt relatively safe with Dwight D. Eisenhower in the White House. “I like Ike� had been his political motto since before he assumed office on January 20, 1953, even many Democrats held him in high esteem for his military service and winning the war in Europe. Eisenhower obtained a truce in Korea and worked diligently trying to ease the tensions of the Cold War. He did however fail to win over Georgy Malenkov, or Nikolai Bulganin who succeeded him, as Premier of the Soviet Union in February of 1955. As a moderate Conservative he left America, as the strongest and most productive nation in the world, but unfortunately because of his lack of diplomacy and love of golf, failed to prevent Cuba from slipping into the communist camp.
WFLA inaugurated its broadcasting in the Tampa Bay area on February 14, 1955. The most popular music was referred to as good music, and although big bands were at their zenith in 1942, by 1947 and music critics will tell you that their time had passed. However, Benny Goodman was only 46 in 1955, Tommy Dorsey was 49 and Count Basie was 51. So, in many sheltered quarters they were still in vogue and perhaps always will be. I for one had my Hi-Fidelity 33 1/3 rpm multi stacked record player and a stash of vinyl long play recordings shipped to Africa. For me time stood still as I listened and entertained my friends. Some years later I met Harry James at the Crystal Ballroom in Disneyland. Those were the days�.
Big on the scene was “Rhythm in Blues,â€� an offshoot of widespread African-American music, that had its beginnings in the â€�40s. It would soon become the window that Rock and Roll would come crashing through.”
― Captain Hank Bracker, "Seawater Two...."

“Klingender's book, striking notes both desperate and defiant, is not typical of the long British tradition of Marxist and Marxist-inspired histories of art that would extend into the 1980s. The so-called social history of art interpreted art as the expression of the interests of communities or classes. In the past, art was paid for and shaped by the elite and the powerful. In the future, art would express the vision and will of democratic collectivities. The reality that art delivered was the reality of economic relations. There was no need for any other origin.”
― Christopher S. Wood, A History of Art History

“Theoreticians attempting to dissect human history by force fitting contrived definitions about “modernismâ€� and “post-modernismâ€� are toiling in vain, effectively emptying buckets into the river rapids of flowing time.”
― A.E. Samaan

“When a quarter of a million miners are unemployed, it is a part of the order of things that Alf Smith, a miner living in the back-streets of Newcastle, should be out of work. But no human being finds it easy to regard himself as a statistical unit. So long as Bert Jones across the street is still at work, Alf Smith is bound to feel himself dishonoured and a failure.”
― George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier

“Black men had fewer opportunities to become wealthy and were specifically encourages, often by the US government, to look to marriage, rather than wealth, as a source of social status. The government hoped that by linking social status to black men's role as husbands and providers it could minimize its own economic responsibility for the newly free African Americans - especially for black women and children.”
― Marcia A. Zug, You'll Do: A History of Marrying for Reasons Other Than Love

“Conceptual historians of various stripes asked after the origins of ideas, but they sought them by tracing the changing meanings of words across different socio-historical contexts. My concern, by contrast, is with the practical origins of ideas: with the ways in which the ideas we live by can be shown to be rooted in practical needs and concerns generated by certain facts about us and our situation.”
― Matthieu Queloz, The Practical Origins of Ideas: Genealogy as Conceptual Reverse-Engineering