History has shown us that the past lives too long, and the future dies too young. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Sometimes history knocks at the most ordinary door to see if anyone is home. Sometimes someone is. — Robert Fulghum Copy Share Image
“Any one of us could be made to look a monster, with selective readings of our history.” — Abigail Haas Copy Share Image
We could have saved sixpence. We could have saved fivepence. But at what cost? — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
“The contents of someone's bookcase are part of his history, like and ancestral portrait.” — Anatole Broyard Copy Share Image
“Eventually, in an historic feat of compromise, democracy was restored by the abolition of elections..” — Louis de Bernières Copy Share Image
Sammy Sosa's a September player, so you have to watch out for him. It's crunch time, time to make history. — Mark McGwire Copy Share Image
Fifty years from now if an understanding of man's origins, his evolution, his history, his progress is not in the common place… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
The Underground Railroad, which was the first integrated civil rights movement, is a part of our history that not a lot of… — Jurnee Smollett-Bell Copy Share Image
To be converted you have to destroy your past, destroy your history. You have to stamp on it, you have to say… — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
The lessons of history teach us - if the lessons of history teach us anything - that nobody learns the lessons that… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“I was going to do something I'd never done, and see things I could not understand and never believed existed. This is… — Andrew Smith Copy Share Image
“Look at the immigrants coming to America looking for a better life. What they got now? If they had the misfortune to… — William S Burroughs Copy Share Image
Anything more low, obscene, feculent, the manifold heaving's of history have not cast up. We shall come to the worship of onions,… — Rufus Choate Copy Share Image
“I look into Julie's face. Not just at it, but into it. Every pore, every freckle, every faint gossamer hair. And then… — Isaac Marion Copy Share Image
When you play a character that exists or existed, there's a stronger responsibility that you have. You owe that person and then… — Johnny Depp Copy Share Image
If I say most people are pretty decent that may sound nice and warm but actually it's really radical and subversive and… — Rutger Bregman Copy Share Image
It felt like being in the center of the world, and I felt like I was a witness to history and I… — Krist Novoselic Copy Share Image
I go into any movie that's historical fiction thinking, 'OK, I'm here to watch a work of art, something delivering a series… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
The historian should be fearless and incorruptible; a man of independence, loving frankness and truth; one who, as the poets says, calls… — Lucian Copy Share Image
“know. “Esther asks why people are sad. “‘That’s simple,’ says the old man. ‘They are the prisoners of their personal history. Everyone… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
A poet's object is not to tell what actually happened but what could or would happen either probably or inevitably… For this… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Nobody needs to talk about the history of Manchester United because everybody knows it. — Lothar Matthaus Copy Share Image
Reality is a staircase going neither up nor down, we don't move; today is today, always is today. — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
History is a river that never ends. Today is history, and I am here at the fountainhead. — Wilbur Smith Copy Share Image
It's not painful to relive it. I'm comfortable with my position in American history. — Rodney King Copy Share Image
“Experience: the vehicle of history. Teenagers: the driving force behind fatal accidents.” — Bauvard Copy Share Image
“Is history to be considered the property of the participants only?” — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
A memoir provides a record not so much of the memoirist as of the memoirist's world. — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
“Each progressive spirit is opposed by a thousand mediocre minds appointed to guard the past.” — Maurice Maeterlinck Copy Share Image
Anatomy is to physiology as geography is to history; it describes the theatre of events. — Jean Fernel Copy Share Image
It is very special for me to be the first Designated Player in LAFC history. — Carlos Vela Copy Share Image
Cristiano and Messi are different. Each one has their own history and credit. — Marcelo Copy Share Image
If you look at the history of the FBI, it has become effectively America's political police. — Julian Assange Copy Share Image
To become the first-ever NXT U.K. Women's Champion, it's a part of history. — Rhea Ripley Copy Share Image
“We are tanks and guns. We are force of history. We will crush them beneath our heels like bugs.” — Jeanne Ray Copy Share Image
