Shreya Ghoshal Quotes

I don't much like Singapore. It's very big, very modern and very urbanised. As a rule, I prefer older places where you get a sense of the history.

A museum is a place where one should lose one's head.

I think Scotland has some great stories.

I don't think all buildings have to be iconic, but the history of the world has shown us that cultures build iconic buildings for their major public buildings.

Student journeys which were important to me were Sicily, Greece, and Egypt, where I really saw these buildings, and that is where you're able to grasp what things mean.

The centuries-old history and culture of India, majestic architectural monuments and museums of Delhi, Agra and Mumbai have a unique attractive force.

Visiting a museum is a matter of going from void to void.

In Porto, it's a tourist city. It's close to the river, the ocean as well. There's a lot of history.

It's always good to be somewhere with some history, maybe that's England, which has a long history.

I remember touring the Medici palace in Florence when I was younger and I was entranced by the beauty and elegance of every space.

The people of Crete unfortunately make more history than they can consume locally.

I'm a big history buff so to walk the streets...the ancient world like that was pretty astounding.

History is remembered by its art, not its war machines.

Archaeology is not only the hand maid of history, it is also the conservator of art.

I do love these ancient ruins. We never tread upon them but we set Our foot upon some reverend history.

Layer upon layer, Italy's storied past unfolds in Robert Kaster's captivating journey along the venerable Queen of Roads. I cannot imagine a more perfect guide to such a rich trove of ancient and modern memories. Illuminating, erudite, entertaining, and evocative.

The use of history is to tell us what we are, for at our birth we are nearly empty vessels and we become what our tradition pours into us.

History is a strange experience. The world is quite small now; but history is large and deep. Sometimes you can go much farther by sitting in your own home and reading a book of history, than by getting onto a ship or an airplane and traveling a thousand miles.

Never is a historic deed already completed when it is done but always only when it is handed down to posterity. What we call "history" by no means represents the sum total of all significant deeds.... World historyonly comprises that tiny lighted sector which chanced to be placed in the spotlight by poetic or scholarly depictions.

To reclaim our past and insist that it become a part of our human history is the task that lies before us. For the future requires that women, as well as men, shape the world destiny.

Well, there is something beautiful about ruins. I mean, in one sense it's not that different from going to Rome and looking at the Forum. But it's changing. It truly is. I'm optimistic but skeptical.

Earth has scarcely an acre that does not remind us of actions that have long preceded our own, and its clustering tombstones loom up like reefs of the eternal shore, to show us where so many human barks have struck and gone down.

To shut yourself from history is to shut yourself off from say music or painting or the theatre, literature for the rest of your life. It would be to cheat yourself of the pleasures of life.

Houses aren't refuges from history. They are where history ends up.

I guess that anything we manage to save from history is a miracle.