I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
History is what scholars and conquerors say happened; story is what it was like to live on the ground. — Christina Baldwin Copy Share Image
Anybody may support me when I am right. What I want is someone that will support me when I am wrong. — John A. Macdonald Copy Share Image
History has shown us all too often the consequences of dreaming poorly or not at all. — Jeff Vandermeer Copy Share Image
If a man could say nothing against a character but what he can prove, history could not be written. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I consider Yoda to be just about the most evil character that I've ever seen in the history of literature. — David Brin Copy Share Image
If you get the basics right, you can freshen things up, you don't want to just regurgitate the past. But we gotta… — Philip Bailey Copy Share Image
Forty is ... an age at which people have histories and options. At thirty, they had perhaps less history. At fifty, perhaps… — Ellen Goodman Copy Share Image
Few individuals significantly alter the course of history. Fewer still modify the map of the world. Hardly anyone can be credited with… — Stanley Wolpert Copy Share Image
I think all of the secrets of the universe are revealed in history. We understand who we are by understanding where we've… — Matt Barr Copy Share Image
Blot out from the page of history the names of all the great actors of his time in the drama of nations,… — Chauncey Depew Copy Share Image
“to the good of the other person and to the relationship itself. Social historians tell us that increasingly the values of the… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
It is through history that we learn who we are and how we got that way, why and how we changed, why… — Stephen Ambrose Copy Share Image
They don't really focus on that history here in America. I remember growing up as a kid, history class was very washed-over.… — Aldis Hodge Copy Share Image
To travel best requires some time preparing for your visit to a particular location - that you don't travel anywhere without spending… — Arthur Frommer Copy Share Image
“Now as I stood on the roof of my house, taking in this unexpected view, it struck me how rather glorious it… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
I try to teach a modernist and postmodernist position. On one hand, if you're a painter, you need to know the history… — Tony Tasset Copy Share Image
“And the crazy part of it was even if you were clever, even if you spent your adolescence reading John Donne and… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
“it seems to me that one of the truths about history that needs to be made clear to a student or to… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
In the history of the treatment of depression, there was the dunking stool, purging of the bowels of black bile, hoses, attempts… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
Podcast listening carries with it a faint aura of cultural snobbery, a notion that to cue up an episode is to do… — Michelle Dean Copy Share Image
Few men in our history have ever obtained the Presidency by planning to obtain it. — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
Our nation's history cannot be undone. And we should not try to rewrite it either. — Nancy Mace Copy Share Image
History was made the day Chubby Checker went on 'Bandstand' with 'The Twist.' — Chubby Checker Copy Share Image
To witness history and science being made in front of your eyes is the rush. — Ginger Zee Copy Share Image
We have learned that history is something that takes no notice whatever of our expectations. — Oswald Spengler Copy Share Image
My mom was a history teacher when I was a kid, so I hated history out of rebellion. — Alexander Dreymon Copy Share Image
The adjective 'decent' and the noun 'government' have seldom come together in the human history! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
“We’d never talked about his parents, like he was some underwater Peter Pan.” — Katherine McIntyre Copy Share Image
Recorded history is wrong. It’s wrong because the voiceless have no voice in it. — Mary Lee Settle Copy Share Image
There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
If history is going to repeat itself I should think we can expect the same thing again. — Terry Venables Copy Share Image
Manchester's history is cotton and wool. Birmingham's is iron and steel. — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
Salute For those who made the history of South sudan with their blood — Mabor Maker Kulang Copy Share Image
