People are hungry for stories. It's part of our very being. Storytelling is a form of history, of immortality too. It goes… — Studs Terkel Copy Share Image
The financial history of the Baltimore and Ohio since the close of the nineteenth century is interesting chiefly in connection with changes… — John Moody Copy Share Image
You know, I've never believed, in anything, that you had to have role models who looked like you to do something. If… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
“History does show that boys who dance are far more likely to pass along their genes than boys who don't. Boys who… — Andrew Smith Copy Share Image
Some scholars have been arguing that a civilizational clash between organized religions is the next step in human history. — Mary Douglas Copy Share Image
There's a basic problem with the history of the Holocaust. The people who do it don't know the necessary languages. — Timothy D. Snyder Copy Share Image
Deep Purple is a damn good band and we've made a niche in rock 'n' roll history. Maybe not a huge one… — Jon Lord Copy Share Image
I have a dreadful feeling in my bones that future historians may write of the May 2014 elections: "This was the wake-up… — Timothy Garton Ash Copy Share Image
No one can be certain where a nation which spans two continents, whose history begins in the faint traces of early civilization,… — Harrison Salisbury Copy Share Image
“Villicus Vadum: Soldier Of Fortune by Stewart Stafford I am the ghost of lupine Romulus, Founder of Rome, hear my tale, Of… — Stewart Stafford Copy Share Image
! What are you doing here?? And how did you know this was my room?? I was slightly weirded out. I said… — Jade Copy Share Image
The history of this paper suggests that highly speculative investigations, especially by an unknown author, are best brought before the world through… — John William Strutt Copy Share Image
I am particularly fond of [Emmanuel Mendes da Costa's] Natural History of Fossils because this treatise, more than any other work written… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
“Recently I've been dreaming of cursing old people with little provocation, because their culture has a long history of enslaving, raping, and… — Matthew Rohrer Copy Share Image
In the course of the history of natural science, it always happens that profound or true thoughts or true facts were always… — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
“…often women aren’t allowed to be characters in history, they have to be stereotypes. Cleopatra was a poet and a philosopher, she… — Bettany Hughes Copy Share Image
France is delighted at this new opportunity to show the world ... that when one has the will one can succeed in… — Francois Mitterrand Copy Share Image
Now that Ronald Reagan's place in history is secure, liberals are trying to remake him. A pernicious myth is that Reagan and… — Craig Shirley Copy Share Image
I've always had a keen sense of history. My father was an antiques dealer and he used to bring home boxes full… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
“Class?" I asked in surprise. "Today?" "This isn't a spa vacation, Tiger Lily. Just be glad it's History of Wormwood and not… — Christine Manzari Copy Share Image
I believe that architecture is fundamentally a public space where people can gather and communicate, think about the history, think about the… — Tadao Ando Copy Share Image
If you look at zombie movies throughout history, they're always making adjustments. Even the idea of the virus zombies and the back-from-the-dead… — Jeff Baena Copy Share Image
The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“I addressed the scribes directing, speaking over his head. "History is merely a list of surprises," I said. "It can only prepare… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
China has a rich history that has spanned millennia. It consists of the histories of many nations and regions. — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
“Time changes and our history fades. The young forget about the old and the old never forget the young.” — Zachary Frerichs Copy Share Image
A half-century after racing the Russians to the moon, the U.S. is barely suiting up in the international race to secure interests… — Rick Larsen Copy Share Image
It's not just about the current economic environment. History shows that slashing budgets always leads to recession. — Ha-Joon Chang Copy Share Image
I believe that historians and analysts of historical events need the authority of facts supplied by living witnesses to the events, which… — Ibrahim Babangida Copy Share Image
Human beings are the laziest creatures in the history of creation. We would rather not do anything if we could avoid it — LeVar Burton Copy Share Image
Du Bois marked a great stage in the history of Negro struggles when he said that Negroes could no longer accept the… — C. L. R. James Copy Share Image
In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Good women are no fun... The only good woman I can recall in history was Betsy Ross. And all she ever made… — Mae West Copy Share Image
For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Books should be cherished, like children, books are for the next generation, like children, like history. — Edna Ferber Copy Share Image
We've all faced the charge that our novels are history lite, and to some extent, that's true. Yet for some, historical fiction… — Saul David Copy Share Image
“There is an underside to every age about which history does not often speak, because history is written from records left by… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
“To hell with everything" — if these words have been uttered, even only once, coldly, with complete awareness of what they mean,… — Emil M. Cioran Copy Share Image
Madam President, speaking here in Dublin Castle it is impossible to ignore the weight of history, as it was yesterday when you… — Queen Elizabeth II Copy Share Image
As an American people, what is greatest about our history are the many times we have led this world away from hate,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image