In October, 1865, occurred what was, in my eyes, the greatest event in the history of the observatory. The new transit circle… — Simon Newcomb Copy Share Image
That's the one thing I have over any twenty-one-year-old: a proud history of accumulated neuroses. That's the game in which I'm da… — Ray Romano Copy Share Image
It may be doubted that there are many other animals which have played so important a part in the history of the… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
I love all history because it’s storytelling. But, I will always have a special place in my heart for the Tudor dynasty. — Natalie Copy Share Image
“Nothing is infinitely reducible. You can split an atom but you can't vaporize it. Stuff sticks around. It clings to you, even… — Lauren Beukes Copy Share Image
The greatest and most momentous fact which the history of the world records is the fact of-Christ's birth. — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Rugby league has this great history at Wembley through taking the Challenge Cup final there, and the lack of a statue is… — Lindsay Hoyle Copy Share Image
I might even be at heavyweight one day; I don't know. You guys know our eating habits is bad down in Hawaii,… — Max Holloway Copy Share Image
“Here we introduce the nation's first great communications monopolist, whose reign provides history's first lesson in the power and peril of concentrated… — Timothy Wu Copy Share Image
“Art has no answers, only solutions, and resolutions... Art has only vision and revision... Art has only hope and more hope... again… — Israel Horovitz Copy Share Image
When real substantive change happens it's the people who watch your show, they're the ones that make it happen. It's people whose… — Tom Morello Copy Share Image
From the beginning of church history, music, writing, literature, and the greatest works of art all came from the church. To change… — Patricia Heaton Copy Share Image
It might be something as simple as saying the right word to the right person at the right time-and that could change… — Herbie Hancock Copy Share Image
We Americans forget or rewrite even our recent history, and accomplishments of any group not pale and male have tended to get… — Robin Morgan Copy Share Image
After 9-11, the President had a historic opportunity to unite Americans and the world in common cause. Instead, by exploiting the politics… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
The white man made the mistake of letting me read his history books. He made the mistake of teaching me that Patrick… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Just as a tree without roots is dead, a people without history or cultural roots also becomes a dead people. — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
No, she did not have a history of twins, and we had discussed all of this before she got pregnant. What if… — Cheryl Tiegs Copy Share Image
“To this day, good English usually means the English wealthy and powerful people spoke a generation or two ago.” — Jack Lynch Copy Share Image
Always it comes very slowly the completed understanding of it, the repeating each one does to tell it the whole history of… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
When I was in school, I conceptually didn't want black people to have context, to take it out of all that history.… — Toyin Odutola Copy Share Image
If there is a single trait in our character that has historically set us apart from other nations, it is our determination… — Billy Bragg Copy Share Image
Postmodernism entices us with the siren call of liberation and creativity, but it may be an invitation to intellectual and moral suicide. — Gertrude Himmelfarb Copy Share Image
Ancient history, besides the still unequalled excellence of the writers, is the best instrument for cultivating the historical sense. — Goldwin Smith Copy Share Image
The closer you can get to your setting and to primary sources, the more authentic your history is going to be. — David B. Coe Copy Share Image
In all our efforts to provide advantages we have actually produced the busiest, most competitive, highly pressured and over-organized generation of youngsters… — Eda LeShan Copy Share Image
I think history is inextricably linked to identity. If you don't know your history, if you don't know your family, who are… — Mary Pipher Copy Share Image
“These forty-nine God-inspired Old Testament books divided into four sections—books of the Law, of History, of Wisdom, and of Prophecy—which” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“A life, a history, whole patterns of existence altered, simply by doing nothing. The silent lie. The act of omission.” — Aminatta Forna Copy Share Image
We perceive that the schemers return again and again to common sense and labor. Such is the evidence of history. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I haven't studied history - I couldn't give a discourse in medieval literature - but I am a personal historian, and I… — Lucy Dacus Copy Share Image
Islamic tradition is full of examples of supporting the autonomy of women and the empowerment of women. Very few people know that… — Khaled Abou El Fadl Copy Share Image
We fight to exist. Personally, I am not ashamed of fighting to exist. We are doing no very extraordinary thing to fight… — Donald Woods Winnicott Copy Share Image
The history of Europe over the last several centuries provides clear evidence of the transformative power of commerce. — Iqbal Quadir Copy Share Image
When I first heard that Barack Obama was going to be the first black president, I wanted to do the smallest, biggest… — Willard Wigan Copy Share Image
Not only the Archivist alone but all who work for NARA are designated custodians of America's national memory. — Allen Weinstein Copy Share Image
“He used to say that he never felt the hardness of the human struggle or the sadness of history as he felt… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
You can take things from the past, from the culture, from the immediate past and things that have not yet entered the… — Michael Craig-Martin Copy Share Image
The 1950s to me is darkness, hidden history, perversion behind most doors waiting to creep out. The 1950s to most people is… — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
The peddling of anti-Semitic stereotypes is an insult to a community that has suffered throughout history from the use of such imagery… — Wes Streeting Copy Share Image
