I like to be buttoned onto tradition. The thing is to improve it, twist it and mold it; to make something new… — Philip Johnson Copy Share Image
We decry violence all the time in this country, but look at our history. We were born in a violent revolution, and… — James Lee Burke Copy Share Image
No one is in charge of this process, this is what makes history so interesting, it's a runaway freight train on a… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
“I wrote this book because I had formed a strong impression that the people currently living were paying insufficient attention to the… — Niall Ferguson Copy Share Image
History is replete with instances of men, who, by dying with courage and compassion on their lips converted the hearts of their… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
America seemed a virgin land waiting for civilization. But Europe had made the wilderness it found; America was not a virgin, she… — Ronald Wright Copy Share Image
Everyone who raps isn't hip-hop. To be hip-hop, you've got to know the culture. You got to know the history. — Ice T Copy Share Image
When states like Alabama and Arizona passed some of the harshest immigration laws in history, my Attorney General took them on in… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
This willful deafness to religious argument, so new in our history, has had various effects. A principal one is encouragement of the… — William Murchison Copy Share Image
“You can be okay here, Tash. If you’re getting tangled up in history, then you need to turn around, babe. You’re looking… — Susan Fanetti Copy Share Image
The point I would make is that the novelist and the historian are seeking the same thing: the truth – not a… — Shelby Foote Copy Share Image
History, insofar as it accustoms human beings to comprehend the whole of the past and to hasten forward with its conclusions into… — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
America is the brokest country in history. We owe more money than anyone has ever owed anyone. And Obama and Reid say… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
“there's a long history of resistance movements igniting in the soccer stadium. In the Red Star Revolution, Draza, Krle, and the other… — Franklin Foer Copy Share Image
“The history of the sexual vanguard in America was a long list of people who had been ridiculed, imprisoned, or subjected to… — Emily Witt Copy Share Image
Look at liberty's greatest historic advances: ending slavery. Giving women the vote. Outlawing legal segregation. Each and every time, the people at… — Rick Perlstein Copy Share Image
We must admit that history is enjoyable to a large extent because it enables us to pass judgment on the past. — Douglas Hurd Copy Share Image
The history of fan fiction demonstrates how efficient, and effective, women have been at pooling together to get what they want out… — Sherwood Smith Copy Share Image
“It is part of the fascination of the study of history that we often know more about what went on a hundred… — William Stewart Wallace 1932 Copy Share Image
History is marked by alternating movements across the imaginary line that separates East from West in Eurasia. — Herodotus Copy Share Image
I have made a lot of tactical decisions that historians will look back and say: He shouldn't have done that. He shouldn't… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Im always interested in looking - historically - at how theater can animate history and how all of that can make us… — Diane Paulus Copy Share Image
There are some people in occult history who warned against using the Ouija Board, who said: "This is a dangerous door to… — Mitch Horowitz Copy Share Image
The history of thought may be summed up in these words: it is absurd by what it seeks and great by what… — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
A number of politicians have failed to recognise the consistent truth of history: that we're both an emotional and a rational species,… — Bettany Hughes Copy Share Image
Tons of people struggle to pronounce words, remember information, and string sentences together, particularly as they age. Biden, already the oldest president… — Mollie Hemingway Copy Share Image
Unlike any other time in our history, we have to know that staying in school and getting an education is the most… — Alexis Herman Copy Share Image
Never limit yourself because of others' limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination. — Mae Jemison Copy Share Image
We have a long history with Japan. When South Korea play against Japan, the fans tell us that if we lose, they… — Park Ji-sung Copy Share Image
You can go to the end of time, the last World Cup in the history of mankind, and the All-Blacks will be… — Phil Kearns Copy Share Image
Most readers will be shocked by the clear record of history linking Adolf Hitler and the Roman Catholic Church in a conspiracy… — John Hagee Copy Share Image
Now, being a POW certainly doesn't qualify anyone to be president. But it does reveal character. This is the kind of character… — Fred Thompson Copy Share Image
We Americans are lucky to live in a country with a history full of noble ideas, great leaders and awe-inspiring accomplishments. Sadly,… — Michael Barone Copy Share Image
The facts speak only when the historian calls on them: it is he who decides to which facts to give the floor,… — Edward Hallett Carr Copy Share Image
My grandpa was a geologist, and I always had this fascination with not only earth sciences but ancient history. — Cole Sprouse Copy Share Image
Throughout history people with disabilities have been institutionalized and segregated, which tends to make you think that it's a group in need… — Jay Ruderman Copy Share Image
LSD...reinforc ed my sense of what was important-creat ing great things instead of making money, putting things back into the stream of… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
Maybe they didn't want you to realize that every civilization has its weakness. There's always one thing we depend on. And if… — Scott Westerfeld Copy Share Image
The Bible is not just one book, but an entire library, with stories, songs, poetry, letters and history, as well as literature… — John Drane Copy Share Image
“In the legal respect, after the execution of the supposed incendiaries, the other half of Moscow burned down.” — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
