Sentence examples for touching history from inspiring English sources

"It's about touching history.

"Meeting Sean was like touching history," said Brent Stevens, whose 91-year-old grandmother, Julia Ruth Stevens, is the Babe's adopted daughter.

"When I pressed his hand, I felt I was touching history," Mr. Peres said, "and when I kissed his head, it was as though I kissed the very greatness of Israel".

Drink a beer in Bruges and you are actually touching history, as those brewing traditions are as ancient as the city itself.

Getting into archives, touching history, holding letters that someone like Boston Corbett wrote.

Explorers, pilgrims and archaeologists who experienced the thrill of touching history in Palmyra will not have that chance again.

He said that for some it was about accessing historic spaces, "getting that visceral sense of history, of actually being able to touch history.

Readers across the country, she said, should "be able to touch history in that way — and do it while they're in a storefront library".

Of course they do: that was the day when their lives touched history; the day they proved to themselves that they were soldiers; the day death came near and then moved on; the day they survived.

"You can actually touch history".

As he frequently stated on his "non-Yiddish speaking tour," "I believe if you touch history, history touches you".