“Those who do not remember the past are condemned to relive it. —Santayana” — William L. Shirer Copy Share Image
“Making a history requires character; making an admirable history requires quality!” — W.O. Makora Copy Share Image
The character thing really is sort of, for me, personally, rather ancient history. — David Bowie Copy Share Image
Data will always bear the marks of its history. That is human history held in those data sets. — Kate Crawford Copy Share Image
I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best. — Frida Kahlo Copy Share Image
What distinguishes the historian from the collector of historical facts is generalization. — Edward Hallett Carr Copy Share Image
History teaches me that the dollar rules and whoever writes history writes it however they want. — Danielle Colby Copy Share Image
Voting against the resolution authorizing the use of military force in Iraq was one of my proudest moments as a senator. It… — Barbara Boxer Copy Share Image
“I was voted as one of the top 25 guest stars in the entire history of the show. So I guess being… — Buzz Aldrin Copy Share Image
For me, in fact, the mark of the historic is the nonchalance with which it picks up an individual and deposits him… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
I'm a historian, I think history matters, but we don't have to be slavish in following it and restoring it, — Jack Granatstein Copy Share Image
During Black History Month, I'm reminded yet again of the ways that the struggle for civil rights is interwoven with the struggle… — Tom Perez Copy Share Image
“Westerns are American history brought to life. Those fuckers were badasses, Callie,” he told me with a smirk. “Plus, John Wayne’s the… — Nicole Jacquelyn Copy Share Image
To converse with historians is to keep good company; many of them were excellent men, and those who were not, have taken… — Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke Copy Share Image
When I sat down to make a list of characters in history who exhibited curiosity, most were women. I thought it was… — Margaret MacMillan Copy Share Image
I think it's unfortunate when people say that there is just one true story of science. For one thing, there are many… — Ian Hacking Copy Share Image
“Oh, glorious Art!" thus mused the enthusiastic painter, as he trod the street. "Thou art the image of the Creator's own. The… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“If the painful history of the human and Christian striving for God proves anything, it surely proves this: that any attempt to… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Fortunately, I come from an activist mother, so I didn't have to rely on the history books. The history books teach us… — Jurnee Smollett Copy Share Image
The simple circumstantial narrative (did such a narrative exist) of the ruin of a single town, of the misfortunes of a single… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
It's stupid to claim that one human being is special, or picked out by God, when in fact there are hundreds of… — Louis de Bernieres Copy Share Image
It is idle to say that nations can struggle to outdo each other in building armaments and never use them. History demonstrates… — Frank B. Kellogg Copy Share Image
“By the seventh year of the Bush-Cheney presidency, Bush had attached signing statements to about 150 bills enacted since he took office,… — Charlie Savage Copy Share Image
History is sinking and only a very few seem dimly aware that things are getting bad. — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
I want to keep making history, keep entertaining, and keep making guys shake in their boots. — Anthony Johnson Copy Share Image
History is apt to judge harshly those who sacrifice tomorrow for today. — Harold MacMillan Copy Share Image
History will point out some of the things I did wrong and some of the things I did right. — George H. W. Bush Copy Share Image
How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes? — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
History is a great cemetery: men, deeds, ideas are always dying as soon as they are born. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Learning history is easy; learning its lessons seems almost impossibly difficult. — Nicolas Bentley Copy Share Image
Very few cities in the NHL have the history or the following of the Detroit Red Wings. — Steve Yzerman Copy Share Image
I do not want to belong to cinema history. I am a woman - I know I'm doomed anyway. — Celine Sciamma Copy Share Image
You can spend your life watching other people win or beat your name into history. — Georges St-Pierre Copy Share Image
“History belongs to the past, but understanding it is the duty of the present” — Shashi Tharoor Copy Share Image
The whole westward expansion myth is seen as romantic. But it's a joke, a blot on American history. — Frank Waters Copy Share Image
