“No one makes history, no one sees it happen, no one sees the grass grow.” — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
History is prone to mistakes in identity, and facts are not always solid things. — Sarah Churchwell Copy Share Image
With my history in cabaret, I work best with material that feels true to me. — Bridget Everett Copy Share Image
What made the war inevitable was the growth of Athenian power and the fear which this caused in Sparta. — Thucydides Copy Share Image
The child ever dwells in the mystery of ageless time,unobscured by the dust of history. — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
If it is good enough for Prince William and Kate, why is studying art history not good enough for the masses? — Cornelia Parker Copy Share Image
It's an honor, any time you play with an organization like the Boston Celtics, all that history there. To put on that… — Jason Collins Copy Share Image
My dear Arthur, I never talk scandal. I only talk gossip. What is the difference between scandal and gossip? Oh! Gossip is… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
We need to understand that the Geneva Conventions are not just some historical documents born of another time, created for another purpose. — Peter Maurer Copy Share Image
When you look at the origins and evolution of life on Earth, it's been severely affected by asteroid impacts through history. — Rusty Schweickart Copy Share Image
Unlike any other leader in modern American history, we are led today by a president that has decided to pit Americans against… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
“It feels like nobody in the history of the world has loved another person as much as I love you. I love… — L.H. Cosway Copy Share Image
“Those once victimised by history are likely to be victimised yet again. And those whom history has privileged are more likely to… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Anyone who studies the history of American commerce or warfare should be interested in Burning Springs, nicknamed "Oiltown." This was the site… — Clint Johnson Copy Share Image
“Roman history also demands a particular sort of imagination. In some ways, to explore ancient Rome from the twenty-first century is rather… — Mary Beard Copy Share Image
In third grade, I had to an oral report on the state of Oregon. I brought up Big Foot sightings, and I… — Sufjan Stevens Copy Share Image
“It's the same hope we have to hold for humanity—that we can transform our roles, roles constructed like so many doors for… — Stan Goff Copy Share Image
Black Americans are the only people in history who are for education instead of liberation. George Washington wasn't beating up on British… — Dick Gregory Copy Share Image
If the American government can't stand behind the dollar, the world's benchmark currency, then the global financial system will very likely enter… — Adam Davidson Copy Share Image
“The midwest is full of these types of people. The nice enoughs but with a soul made of plastic. Easy to mold,… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“What will history’s verdict be about our time?" ~ Jenny Erpenbeck, Kairos Yearning like a man yearns for fire on cold winter… — Avijeet Das Copy Share Image
“as the tides of history rise and fall, worldviews rise and fall with them,” — Heath White Copy Share Image
Virtue is its own reward. There's a pleasure in doing good which sufficiently pays itself. — John Vanbrugh Copy Share Image
Somewhere, all the people we have loved and lost are still among us, in the house that we call history. — Graham Masterton Copy Share Image
The ceding of Alsace-Lorraine is nothing but war in perpetuity under the mask of peace. — Edgar Quinet Copy Share Image
To be a really good historian is perhaps the rarest of intellectual distinctions. — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
I'd like to do something impossible rather than just something historical. — Eric Holmes Copy Share Image
God has never, in the history of mankind, allowed His name to go long offended. — David Wilkerson Copy Share Image
In cultural history, the civil rights movement came before the women's movement. — Marisa Tomei Copy Share Image
“There is the history of opinions which is hardly anything but a collection of human errors.” — Voltaire Copy Share Image
History is written by the victors, but it's victims who write the memoirs. — Carol Tavris Copy Share Image
