A history in which every particular incident may be true may on the whole be false. — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
History within itself cannot be transcended. ... In history itself there are only relative victories. — Ernst Troeltsch Copy Share Image
Your personal history is a part of what happens with your hands and your head as you play music. — Dave Grohl Copy Share Image
I have a long history of looking at things from an investor's perspective by training and background. — John L. Flannery Copy Share Image
“I learned that we truly love something when we research its history.” — Alan Maiccon Copy Share Image
“I am...only a small part of history and the legacy of mankind's fall from grace. - Danny Rollings” — James Fox Copy Share Image
The history of Hillary Clinton as a five-year senator is to promote Hillary Clinton and not the needs of New Yorkers — John Spencer Copy Share Image
“As history abundantly shows, Congress, for all its faults, has not been the unbroken parade of clowns and thieves and posturing windbags… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
If you're going to make sense of politics you have to have a historical perspective and also recognise that you have to… — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
America needs to fully grasp the lessons learned from our history of fighting radical jihadists. There have been successes and failures. — Pete Hoekstra Copy Share Image
I love the people to see me as gold medal, Hall of Fame, world champion that knows how to make the world… — The Iron Sheik Copy Share Image
We are living through the most exciting, challenging and most critical time in human history. Never before has so much been possible;… — Peter Russell Copy Share Image
“The only historian capable of fanning the spark of hope in the past is the one who is firmly convinced that even… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
Once I thought to write a history of the immigrants in America. Then I discovered that the immigrants were American history. — Oscar Handlin Copy Share Image
For a few thousand years, women had no history. Marriage was our calling, and meekness our virtue. Over the last century, in… — Stacy Schiff Copy Share Image
Despite history, despite English, despite the noteworthies, and a little bit also despite ourselves, alas!, the Quebecois people have stayed French. I… — Pierre Bourgault Copy Share Image
“Wilmington, Del. (AP) June 14, 1966—A fire that destroyed the city’s oldest Negro church has led to the discovery of a wild… — James McBride Copy Share Image
For the first time in American history, it's not clear whether or not it's smart for a 17-year-old to enroll in college.… — Brian Schatz Copy Share Image
I've been searching for a genre that would be most adequate to my vision of the world to convey how my ear… — Svetlana Alexievich Copy Share Image
“On February 23, 1945, one of the most famous photographs in American history was taken atop Mount Suribachi, as five American soldiers… — Charles River Editors Copy Share Image
As we watch the sun go down, evening after evening, through the smog across the poisoned waters of our native earth, we… — U Thant Copy Share Image
“The feeling was a bit odd under the circumstances, but I was glad to be back at the Old Imperial. Windowless and… — Barry Eisler Copy Share Image
