“...in my wildest, most indulgent dreams, we only hear about sexual assault & abuse in history books.” — Lisa Factora-Borchers Copy Share Image
Be lord of a day, through wisdom and justice, and you can put up your history books. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Look for us in history books and you’ll find us in the margins. Look for us in legends, and you might just… — Scott Lynch Copy Share Image
I knew always that Holland gave away the most Jews of all the countries. We are not the heroes that are in… — Carice van Houten Copy Share Image
You couldn't always trust the history books. They told a diluted truth, a truth by committee. — Whoopi Goldberg Copy Share Image
Politicians against gay marriage now, are the future villains of our American History books. — Natalie Maines Copy Share Image
“History books are filled with lies. Whoever wins the war tells the story.” — Stephanie Perkins Copy Share Image
I have to tell you, when I hear the song 'Jiya ho Bihar ke Lala,' I want to throw the history books… — Amitava Kumar Copy Share Image
But nothing is solid and permanent. Our lives are raised on the shakiest foundations. You don't need to read history books to… — Ron Rash Copy Share Image
But the participants [in war] never forgot the details of their experience, and like the Wandering Jew, they were condemned to remain… — James Lee Burke Copy Share Image
“We do what we must to earn our place in the community, but we live for the hours at home. For each… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
During the Depression, or back when we were fighting Hitler, people didn't have time to sue a company if the coffee was… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
The white man made the mistake of letting me read his history books. He made the mistake of teaching me that Patrick… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
When real substantive change happens it's the people who watch your show, they're the ones that make it happen. It's people whose… — Tom Morello Copy Share Image
Coolidge was a pragmatist. He didn't start out with a tax theory. But he observed over time that lower tax rates sometimes… — Amity Shlaes Copy Share Image
“It might very well be that literally every word in the history books, even the things that one accepted without question, was… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
While I was drawn to the Renaissance, my first (unpublished) novels took place in modern times. When the subject of alchemy started… — Mary Pope Osborne Copy Share Image
“Many of the people I write about were deliberately left out of the history books that we were forced to read in… — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Copy Share Image
“In spring, 1937, of course, families still rode the rails because of the Depression, which everyone said was already in the history… — Ronald Geigle Copy Share Image
What they teach you as history is mythology and true mythology is far from fantasy -- it is our true history. A… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
Empire in the past was always a far harsher and much more accident-prone business than conventional history books imply. And the costs… — Linda Colley Copy Share Image
“People like these have done more to relieve human misery than any prophet with a manifesto ever will. They number in the… — Kage Baker Copy Share Image
“Raping a planet involves considerable expense. Enormous blasters and slicers and sluicers and refiners are required to reduce a world back almost… — Roger Zelazny Copy Share Image
Oh, Val," said Father. "All you have to do is live your life, and everyone around you will be happier." "No greatness,… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“Through all the years of considered opinion and thoughtful contribution that offers to explain the human condition, we are yet to see… — Steve Carlsson Copy Share Image
“The stress of farming had far-reaching consequences. It was the foundation of large-scale political and social systems. Sadly, the diligent peasants almost… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Neville Chamberlain, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, honestly believed that he could reason with Adolf Hitler in good faith. Now,… — Captain Hank Bracker, "Seawater One Copy Share Image
“...he never so much as looks at me. He just sits there reading his old history books, that really gets me. I… — Sophie Divry Copy Share Image
“I see things in windows and I say to myself that I want them. I want them because I want to belong.… — Dave Matthes Copy Share Image
“In the year Ten Million, according to Koradubian, there would be a tremendous house-cleaning. All records relating to the period between the… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“You're all Helen talks about. She's been reading Welsh history books and plaguing the family with accounts of Owain Glynd and something… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
“In past ages, a war, almost by definition, was something that sooner or later came to an end, usually in unmistakable victory… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Whites were the winners, blacks were the losers, we wrote the history books, and they didn't feature. — Phillip Noyce Copy Share Image
When I was a teenager, I read the bible cover-to-cover, and I found the Old Testament, it's a pretty bloody history book. — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share Image
“blatant, intentional discrimination against women is far from being something merely to be read about in history books.” — Cordelia Fine Copy Share Image
When I was a little boy in Worcestershire reading history books I never thought I should have to interfere between a king… — Stanley Baldwin Copy Share Image
Any good history book is mainly just a long list of mistakes, complete with names and dates. It's very embarrassing. — A. Whitney Brown Copy Share Image
I much prefer writing fiction. History books, for me, are very hard work, very serious. — Simon Sebag Montefiore Copy Share Image
“We're all just moments and most of us don't matter. We study less than one percent of all humanity in our history… — Emily Lloyd-Jones Copy Share Image
I want to go down in the history books as one of the greatest female boxers of all time, and I think… — Katie Taylor Copy Share Image
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