“Cromwell's punitive expedition marked a watershed in Irish history. An estimated 40 percent of the Irish population died either in the war… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
I'm from Arizona where I feel like our history, as a state, is so young in comparison to some of these wonderful… — Janet Varney Copy Share Image
Never forget the importance of history. To know nothing of what happened before you took your place on earth, is to remain… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The state is and has been in history a source of disorder and chaos, and this problem gets worse the more the… — Llewellyn Rockwell Copy Share Image
A writer could spend years reading already-published books just to gain a grasp of the historical terrain. — Erik Larson Copy Share Image
Dissenting opinions are useful even when they're wrong. So instead of speaking to highly agreeable audiences, target suggestions to people with a… — Adam Grant Copy Share Image
“Only once in the historical record has a jump on the San Andreas exceeded the jump of 1906. In 1857, near Tejon… — John McPhee Copy Share Image
America has had many other discoverers besides Columbus, but he seems to have made more satisfactory arrangements with the historians than any… — Bill Nye Copy Share Image
“There is no valid reason for the perennial Christian preference of biography, history, and the newspaper to fiction and poetry. The former… — Leland Ryken Copy Share Image
“Mark Twain, cynical about so much else, has a particular reverence in the Holy Land for "sitting where a god has stood".… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Jana stares at him for a moment then abruptly turns to me. “It’s so weird bumping into you, Chloe—I was just thinking… — Claire LaZebnik Copy Share Image
“Revolutionaries - true revolutionaries - are aggressive, ruthless, and generally seize the main chance, as William Henry Drayton did when he saw… — John Buchanan Copy Share Image
“But in the biblical understanding revelation is a historical event: it is the word of God coming to the moment of human… — Hammann Konrad Copy Share Image
Exploring my racial identity, my blackness and my whiteness as living, breathing, moving parts; confronting race as an issue head-on, learning about… — Vick Hope Copy Share Image
“MAN’S MIND cannot grasp the causes of events in their completeness, but the desire to find those causes is implanted in man’s… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
In sum: banking theory and practice, as immobilizing and fixating forces, fail to acknowledge men and women as historical beings; problem-posing theory… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
“…little people like me have to keep the true story alive. That way, when the revolution ends, and people come looking for… — Mauriel Joslyn Copy Share Image
I try not to think about legacy because it is all folly. If you study history, even recent history, you'll find many… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving - as if it were an individual person - its… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Man has the power to act as his own destroyer - and that is the way he has acted through most of… — Elon Musk Copy Share Image
My first popular book, 'A Brief History of Time,' aroused a great deal of interest, but many found it difficult to understand. — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
What a thrill it was to play opposite Maurice Evans in this brilliant, dazzling musical, based on the life of two of… — Dinah Sheridan Copy Share Image
If I hadn't become a professional basketball player, I would have become a history teacher. There's so much to learn from history. — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Copy Share Image
“The persistent question, “Why does God allow adversity to impact our lives?” is ancient. Throughout the long arc of human history,” — Leary Bonnett Copy Share Image
No nation in the world has so many drastic problems squeezed into so small a space, under such urgent pressure of time… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
Architecture is the printing-press of all ages, and gives a history of the state of the society in which it was erected,… — Sydney, Lady Morgan Copy Share Image
I always emphasize the historic role of people of color in organizing and protesting to achieve justice. — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
“African politicians and health experts gathered in Ghana for a second day yesterday in an attempt to find a way of halting… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Don't forget that in the history of the world, there was a plebiscite, in which Christ and Barabbas were being judged, and… — Augusto Pinochet Copy Share Image
I want to write a new story in Europe, to make a new history. I want to come to win the championship… — Alexandre Pato Copy Share Image
“I'll let you in on a little secret, Garry: everything is history. By the time you notice it, it's already happened. That… — Edward St. Aubyn Copy Share Image
With the success of Immature, I wanted to start the group B2K, which ended up being one of the biggest urban boy… — Chris Stokes Copy Share Image
They try to say this era was a tainted era. But so many great players played in the last 15 to 20… — Rafael Palmeiro Copy Share Image
“I said that great men had a sense of history. But when you say you have a great sense of history it… — Teodoro A. Agoncillo Copy Share Image
Of all the threats to free speech in history, the one the media give the most credibility to without question is the… — Milo Yiannopoulos Copy Share Image
I take my own experience and other assassinations through history and get a lot into the drone program, which doesn't work, as… — Robert Baer Copy Share Image
“there’s an old saying: peek not through a knothole, lest ye be vexed. Was there ever a bigger knothole in human history… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
A nation is bound not only by the real past, but the stories it tells itself: by what it remembers, and what… — Colin Thubron Copy Share Image
I have always thought that if I could turn back the pages of history and photograph one man, my choice would be… — Margaret Bourke-White Copy Share Image
As a former English major, I have always been fascinated by the connections between literature and history. — Nathaniel Philbrick Copy Share Image
