In the real world, nothing happens at the right place at the right time. It is the job of journalists and historians… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
There's already a lot of self-exculpatory history being written. Right across the board. And it's my task to make sure that such… — Eric Reeves Copy Share Image
It is up to us, to everyone at Celtic Park, to build up our own legends. We don't want to live with… — Jock Stein Copy Share Image
“This was the moment when history held its breath, and the present sheared asunder from the past as an iceberg splits from… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
Of compelling consideration is the fact that words acquire scope and function from the history of events which they summarize. — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share Image
The institution of chivalry forms one of the most remarkable features in the history of the Middle Ages. — Horatio Alger Copy Share Image
Even as a child, even as my blood-past was drained from me, I understood that if I were strong enough to accept… — Anne Michaels Copy Share Image
As far as I'm concerned, the 20th century was performance-driven, but for some reason, the critics and historians didn't know how to… — Roselee Goldberg Copy Share Image
The earth is not a mere fragment of dead history, stratum upon stratum like the leaves of a book, to be studied… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I believe the earth gets warmer and I also believe the earth gets cooler. And I think history points out that it… — Rick Santorum Copy Share Image
It's difficult to say with words what Manchester United means for me. For anyone. It's amazing to play for this club, with… — David de Gea Copy Share Image
Try this for deviancy: fabricants are mirrors held up to purebloods' conscience; what purebloods see reflected there sickens them. So they blame… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
Who are we to be so arrogant as to say 'now WE know what's best, THAT era was full of daft ideas'… — Sean Michael Wilson Copy Share Image
I believe the universe wants to be noticed. I think the universe is inprobably biased toward the consciousness, that it rewards intelligence… — John Green Copy Share Image
I grew up in a very religious family, so that was never going to leave me. I just accepted it over the… — Brendon Urie Copy Share Image
There's this unspoken history that exists between any mother and daughter, no matter how deep and loving the bond is, twenty-five years… — Stephen Karam Copy Share Image
In all the history of the boxing game, you'll find no human interest story to compare with the life narrative of James… — Damon Runyon Copy Share Image
I like to know what the gestation of the idea is, I like to know the foundation, and I do a lot… — Kieran Bew Copy Share Image
Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and… — Carter G. Woodson Copy Share Image
Give me one other part of history where everybody shows up to the same social space. Fragmentation is a more natural state… — danah boyd Copy Share Image
Birds, it must be admitted, are the most exciting and most deserving of the vertebrates; they are perhaps the best entre into… — Roger Tory Peterson Copy Share Image
The people in Japan know more about the history of jazz and the musicians than the people in the United States do. — Billy Higgins Copy Share Image
If students get a sound education in the history, social effects and psychological biases of technology, they may grow to be adults… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
I'd never imagined I had the opportunity to play with Tom Brady, the greatest athlete in sports history. — Mike Evans Copy Share Image
The history of the Web so far says that we are highly motivated to come up with ways to make sense of… — Andrew Keen Copy Share Image
You see all these old buildings [in Rio] going down or catching fire overnight, and it is so sad. I am very… — Sonia Braga Copy Share Image
Miracles have no claim whatever to the character of historical facts and are wholly invalid as evidence of any revelation. — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
[On a double win for black actors:]It means that Hollywood is continuing to make history. We're evolving with the rest of the… — Morgan Freeman Copy Share Image
“Being different and thinking differently make a person unforgettable. History does not remember the forgettable. It honors the unique minority the majority… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
The fact that there was no catastrophic pandemic in recent history does not mean there won't be another one. And we are… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
I been making history for Omaha, Nebraska, since I started boxing professional, and it just keeps going and going and going. — Terence Crawford Copy Share Image
Ultimately, the naming of buildings is not a mechanism by which history is kept alive. It is a mechanism by which the… — David Olusoga Copy Share Image
“We may be of the same family, but that is the very reason why we are not friends, for we are rivals… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
“History (that list of ballooning wishes, flukes, bent times, plunges and mistakes clutched like parachutes) is rolling itself up in your head… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
The Kecks will allow us, like no other telescope in history, to view the evolving universe that gave us birth. — Sandra Faber Copy Share Image
It is a matter of immense pride that never in history has there been a complaint against the Indian community from any… — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
So when you consider the archetypal, historical, and cultural background of whatever you do, it gives you a sense that your occupation… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
There has been no discovery like it in the history of man. It puts into man's hands the key to using the… — Frederick Soddy Copy Share Image
Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world, and thus with the history of… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
Any society which suppresses the heritage of its conquered minorities, prevents their history or denies them their symbols, has sown the seeds… — William Wallace Copy Share Image