Then I thought, Whoa. If there are no photographs, then there is no history. I'm going to get in there. I'm going… — Joel Meyerowitz Copy Share Image
“There was something of relative freedom in that feudal gesture of the vow; for no man asks vows from slaves anymore than… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“History didn’t greet us with triumphal fanfares: —it flung dirty sand into our eyes. Ahead of us lay long roads leading nowhere,… — Wisława Szymborska Copy Share Image
“I’m as surprised as you are,” Avasarala said. “Though I feel like I shouldn’t be. I actually read history. It’s like reading… — James S.A. Corey Copy Share Image
“You're history, Donohue. You think countries run the fucking world! Go back to fucking Sunday school. It's 'God save our multinational' they're… — John le Carré Copy Share Image
A judge must interpret statutes as written. And a judge must interpret the Constitution as written, informed by history and tradition and… — Brett Kavanaugh Copy Share Image
Without language, one cannot talk to people and understand them; one cannot share their hopes and aspirations, grasp their history, appreciate their… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
I have tried to lift France out of the mud. But she will return to her errors and vomitings. I cannot prevent… — Charles de Gaulle Copy Share Image
The desire to be and have a sister is a primitive and profound one that may have everything or nothing to do… — Elizabeth Fishel Copy Share Image
I think that a lot of our fashion history shows do touch on important issues. Fashion and Technology obviously does, because technology… — Valerie Steele Copy Share Image
If greatness of purpose, smallness of means, and astonishing results are the three criteria of a human genius, who could dare compare… — Alphonse de Lamartine Copy Share Image
“The resurrection cannot be tamed or tethered by any utilitarian test. It is a vast watershed in history, or it is nothing.… — LIFE Magazine Copy Share Image
Nothing could have been worse for the development of my mind than Dr. Butler's school, as it was strictly classical, nothing else… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
“Someone once said that his favourite times in history were when things were collapsing, because that meant something new was being born.… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
For me, the historical and genealogical library is the one I use. I'm working on, I'll say, it's a time travel novel.… — Andrew Sean Greer Copy Share Image
There is no greater power on this earth than story.” Will paced the length of the room. “People think boundaries and borders… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
History seldom destroys that which does not deserve to die; and the burning of the tares makes for the next sowing a… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
But Maastricht was not the end of history. It was a first step towards a Europe of growth, of employment, a social… — Laurent Fabius Copy Share Image
“Anthony imagined a time before all that - a time when people sipped Earl Grey tea on a breeze cooled veranda and… — Alan Gibbons Copy Share Image
The great and abiding lesson of American history, particularly the cold war, is that the engine of capitalism, the individual, is mightier… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
Men are not the causers of history. History itself, by a pressure of events, causes men to resort to particular actions. — Tanith Lee Copy Share Image
“We all knew the great lesson of history; I from reading it and they from living it. And the lesson is: it… — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
I studied history and English in college, got a master's in writing, but I was always sort of an autodidact in science. — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
History records the large events or the general condition of society, but only an individual can put down the way of life… — Gladys Taber Copy Share Image
The turning point in history will be the moment man becomes aware that the only god of man is man himself. — Henri de Lubac Copy Share Image
A country grows in history not only because of the heroism of its troops on the field of battle, it grows also… — Aristide Briand Copy Share Image
It comforts the adult conscience to remember that, amid history's grave injustices, there were still great lives. — Rumaan Alam Copy Share Image
You have to accustom yourself to practical study at home, you have to devote time to studies, to the history of chess,… — Mikhail Botvinnik Copy Share Image
“It was like he'd sprung fully-formed from my eighteen-year-old fantasies, the hot History teacher who just couldn't help himself.” — Abigail Barnette Copy Share Image
It's very important for cities all around the world to reinvent themselves, and Glasgow is a good example of that. The Scots… — Zaha Hadid Copy Share Image
I don't know anything about American history or presidents. I don't know what tailgating is! I've never been to an Olive Garden! — Emma Watson Copy Share Image
English history is all about men liking their fathers, and American history is all about men hating their fathers and trying to… — Malcolm Bradbury Copy Share Image
“I find it very concerning that a utility company that has an established history of harassing me has my family under surveillance… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
“a historian named Herodotus, tells of a thief who was to be executed. As he was taken away he made a bargain… — Larry Niven Copy Share Image
History teaches, perhaps, very few clear lessons. But surely one such lesson learned by the world at great cost is that aggression,… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
My younger sister retired a few years ago after a 30-year career teaching history and social studies at an inner-city high school. — Judy Woodruff Copy Share Image
“The United States of Andrew Jackson or George Washington is not the United States of Frederick Douglass or Sitting Bull. But we… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
I don't understand this world, some people never understand, I feel sometimes like if you want them to know about the history,… — Black Son Beats Copy Share Image
“History teaches us that men and nations only behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives." --” — Abba Eban Copy Share Image
In the Confederate Army, an officer was judged by stark courage alone, and this made it possible for the Confederacy to live… — Chesty Puller Copy Share Image
