4 Quotes & Sayings By Life Magazine

LIFE magazine was founded in 1936 by Henry Luce, a former reporter for the New York Herald Tribune. In the beginning, LIFE was a magazine about art and photography. In its first 15 years, LIFE brought a fresh approach to reporting and storytelling. With important articles about the art world (by writers like John Steinbeck), LIFE was one of the first magazines to bring popular culture into American living rooms Read more

The magazine's most famous cover ever is the "Man in Space" story, which shocked readers with images of Americans flying in space. Other unforgettable covers were "Full-Color Grayscale" (1953), "What Life Was Like in the Atomic Age" (1954), and "The Dead Sea Scrolls" (1964).

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Words. Ever since chisel was taken to slate, it has been accepted that words can and do change the world. LIFE Magazine
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People fail to realize there's a difference in kinds of money. There is old money and there is new money. Old money has political power but new money has only purchasing power. (1963) LIFE Magazine
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The resurrection cannot be tamed or tethered by any utilitarian test. It is a vast watershed in history, or it is nothing. It cannot be tested for truth; it is the test of lesser truths. No light can be thrown on it; its own light blinds the investigator. It does not compel belief; it resists it. But once accepted as fact, it tells more about the universe, about history, and about man's state and fate that all the mountains of other facts in the human accumulation. LIFE Magazine