History had its own way of explaining things. The way historians explain things is by telling a story. — Donald Kagan Copy Share Image
History records the names of royal bastards, but cannot tell us the origin of wheat. — Jean-Henri Fabre Copy Share Image
I was reading a lot of European history, and I thought Attila the Hun had gotten a bad rap. — Katherine Dunn Copy Share Image
God alone knows the future, but only an historian can alter the past. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“Hasta que aprendiera a controlarme a mí misma, no sería capaz de controlar mi destino” — Sherry Jones Copy Share Image
I love the Shakespeare history plays; I love the struggle for the crown as a plot. — Mark Gatiss Copy Share Image
From the first time I played with Lester Flatt, I sensed an extreme amount of history around me. — Marty Stuart Copy Share Image
What want these outlaws conquerors should have but history's purchased page to call them great? — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
Barcelona is a very old city in which you can feel the weight of history; it is haunted by history. You cannot… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
I had the erroneous conviction that all of history tended toward my birth and would diminish into chaos or inconsequence after I… — David Milch Copy Share Image
“True complexity can only be understood through history, not by looking at the present state of some seemingly complicated construct.” — E.M. Foner Copy Share Image
“So there existed fathers who dealt in the present, who didn't drag ancient history around like a ball and chain. So there… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
To picture world history as advancing smoothly and steadily without sometimes taking gigantic strides backward is undialectical, unscientific and theoretically wrong. — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
I'm not the best player in the history of tennis. I think I'm amongst the best. That's true. That's enough for me. — Rafael Nadal Copy Share Image
For the first time in history we can work backward from our imagination rather than forward from our past. — Gary Hamel Copy Share Image
throughout human history people have scarred, painted, pierced, padded, stiffened, plucked, and buffed their bodies in the name of beauty. — Nancy Etcoff Copy Share Image
“The rational study of law is still to a large extent the study of history. History must be a part of the… — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr Copy Share Image
“And now the lies of the Civil War and the lies of these post-racial years began to resonate with each other, and… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
The face of the angel of history is turned toward the past. Where we perceived a chain of events, he sees a… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
I get in trouble when I say things like, 'I'm attracted to violence.' I was a pretty angry kid, and I got… — Caleb Carr Copy Share Image
When Doris Lessing won the Nobel Prize for Literature at the age of 88, she was the oldest person ever to receive… — Justin Cartwright Copy Share Image
Dorado Beach's rich history provided amazing inspiration to put forward a bold menu celebrating the legacy of the people and cuisine that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I've been writing American history for a long time, and I've had a hard time finding strong, interesting female characters. There are… — H. W. Brands Copy Share Image
“Such is the economy of nature," Thomas Jefferson wrote, "that no instance can be produced, of her having permitted any one race… — Elizabeth Kolbert Copy Share Image
