I love myself, I love my skin, and I love my history. I'm grateful for who I am, grateful for the people… — Wunmi Mosaku Copy Share Image
History has been my primary intellectual passion ever since, as a boy in Southern California, I began reading books on World War… — Max Boot Copy Share Image
“Love should always be given, but trust must be earned, and never forget or else be tagged the fool, doomed to repeat… — L.M. Fields Copy Share Image
You can't just read the Koran to understand Muslim life. You have to look at history, at personalities, at economics, and so… — Daniel Pipes Copy Share Image
Politics is my second passion, but as a historian, you have to be genuinely neutral. You have failed in your primary duty… — Amanda Foreman Copy Share Image
Without question, the greatest invention in the history of mankind is beer. Oh, I grant you that the wheel was also a… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
“The first gang members who joined the military were known as the Hounds, a group of former New York gang members.” — Carter F. Smith Copy Share Image
“We're not words, Henry, we're people. Words are how others define us, but we can define ourselves any way we choose.” — Shaun David Hutchinson Copy Share Image
If there were nothing else of Abraham Lincoln for history to stamp him with, it is enough to send him with his… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Some writers may toy with the fancy of a ‘Christ-myth,’ but they do not do so on the ground of historical evidence.… — F. F. Bruce Copy Share Image
In the European tradition, rivers are seen as divisions between peoples. But in the Aboriginal tradition, rivers are seen as the glue,… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
This high proportion of history's decisive campaigns, the significance of which is enhanced by the comparative rarity of the direct approach, enforces… — B. H. Liddell Hart Copy Share Image
“Grace deeply identified with Mead’s view that ideas evolve historically. “Unlike the average American teacher of philosophy of his day,” she wrote,… — Stephen M. Ward Copy Share Image
Along with the differences that abide in each of us, there is also in each of us a maverick, the darling stubborn… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
The real invasion of South Vietnam which was directed largely against the rural society began directly in 1962 after many years of… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“We may choose to freeze a moment and say that it all 'began' then, but as an historian I have to tell… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“Some writers refuse to lay their heads peaceably on the pillow of literary history in order to give posterity good dreams." --… — of the works of Knut Hamsun (26 nov 1998 James Wood review in London Review of Books Copy Share Image
The early church didn’t say, ‘Look what the world is coming to!’ They said, ‘Look what has come into the world’! — Carl F. H. Henry Copy Share Image
I believe history teaches us a categorical lesson: that once a people are determined to become free, then nothing in the world… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
We believe that the history of the world is but the history of His influence and that the center of the whole… — Alexander MacLaren Copy Share Image
Revisionism is a healthy historiographical process, and no one, not even revisionists, should be exempt from it. — John Lewis Gaddis Copy Share Image
Revolution, in order to be creative, cannot do without either a moral or metaphysical rule to balance the insanity of history. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
India has left a deeper mark upon the history the philosophy and the religion of mankind than any other terrestrial unit in… — George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston Copy Share Image
There are singular moments in history, dates that divide all that goes before from all that comes after. — George H. W. Bush Copy Share Image
It is unfortunate that so much of the history of Africa has been written by conquerors, foreigners, missionaries and adventurers. The Egyptians… — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
“It reinforced my sense of what was important—creating great things instead of making money, putting things back into the stream of history… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
I grew up around books - my grandmother's house, where I lived as a small child, was full of books. My father… — John Irving Copy Share Image
Sometimes in the history of art it is possible to describe a period or a generation of artists as having been obsessed… — Alfred H. Barr, Jr Copy Share Image
The sun rarely shines in history, what with the dust and confusion; and when we meet with any cheering fact which implies… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I believe no one can read the history of our country without realizing that the Good Book and the spirit of the… — Earl Warren Copy Share Image
If you go back through 2000 years, I guess luck, Marx, and God have made history, the three of them together. — Theodore White Copy Share Image
Im for the dreamers. The only really important things in history have been started by the dreamers. They never know what cant… — Bill Veeck Copy Share Image
No place is a place until things that have happened in it are remembered in history, ballads, yarns, legends, or monuments. Fictions… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
“Individual identities and national destines were shaped by the tripod of history, geography, and philosophy.” — Patrick Mendis Copy Share Image
Yesterday, December seventh, 1941, a date which will live in infamy, the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by… — Franklin D Roosevelt Copy Share Image
It's funny, when you look back in history books or American cookery books, one of the reasons that the quinces and cranberries… — Alton Brown Copy Share Image
“Love is the most abused word in history. It is, simply, caring more for others than you do for yourself.” — Jack L. Chalker Copy Share Image
No Christian and, indeed, no historian could accept the epigram which defines religion as 'what a man does with his solitude.' — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
When you go back and look at American history, it's not terribly different from Canadian history. If you weren't self-reliant on the… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
America is the greatest nation in history, and I join all Tennesseans in supporting our country's continued strength and success. — Bill Hagerty Copy Share Image
