George Emil Palade Quotes

I'm a total nerd, so I'm on my telescope, or I read a lot. I'm very inspired by ancient history.

I love the past. I read about the past all the time.

I wanted to know if the 'Iliad' in the original was as relevant and contemporary as it was in translation. I then started Latin. I had finally found something I enjoyed and was good at: dead languages!

I like reading about the past. I'm definitely not a history buff, but I do read a bit of history now and again, and to do that for work is really exciting.

I read a lot of history for fun.

The abundance of Roman historical mysteries contrasts with the surprising paucity of crime novels set in classical Greece.

I've always been fascinated by history.

I read a lot of archaeology and early history in a general way, not thinking particularly of this book, and this provided me with the background. It showed me how, possibly, the people lived back then.

There hasn't been a day in my life since I started Latin in ninth grade that I haven't benefited by the lives of the ancients.

My true love is history, but I didn't know how I could make a living at it.

The first grown-up book that I read on my own was a nineteenth-century edition of 'Tales from Livy' that I'd found in my grandfather's library.

Personally, my interests are ancient history and ancient civilizations. In my own life, I'd like to go to places like Easter Island.

On the Italian side, we can trace the family back 2,000 years. I have a cousin in Rome, a famous archaeologist, Count Andrea Carandini, who was in Lombardy and came across some pottery with the original name of the family, Carandinus, painted on it.

We have today a fairly thorough knowledge of the early Greco-Roman period because our motivations are the same.

I read my first book on Woodrow Wilson at age 15, and I was hooked.

I knew I never wanted to become an archaeologist. But at school I became intrigued by what people were doing on an everyday basis in the past.

I like historical things; I like researching things.

I wanted to get the most broad foundation for a lifelong education that I could find, and that was studying Latin and the classics. Meaning Roman and Greek history and philosophy and ancient civilizations.

I don't have a strong interest in history.

I have a long view of history - my orientation is archaeological because I'm always thinking in terms of ancient Greece and Rome, ancient Persia and Egypt.

I love history, doesn't matter what era, I'm fascinated.

From the time I was a little boy I found myself reading history when I had a choice. I read a lot of things, but history had a special appeal for me.

One of the things that I love to do is travel around the world and look at archaeological sites. Because archaeology gives us an opportunity to study past civilizations, and see where they succeeded and where they failed. Use science to, you know, work backwards and say, 'Well, really, what were they thinking?'

All ancient history is dark and uncertain.

I read more history books than anything else.