“Take care, take care. This city thrives! It's money gives you wings to soar. But it is a yoke on your shoulders… — Jessie Burton Copy Share Image
Re-vision -- the act of looking back, of seeing with fresh eyes, of entering an old text from a new critical direction… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
“Only through the careful study of historical documents can we prevent the distortion of where we came from and who we are… — Ben Carson Copy Share Image
Shooting in Jaipur was one of the best experiences of my life. The city is culturally quite rich, and each part of… — Shaheer Sheikh Copy Share Image
2011 is one of those years that historians are likely to look back on as a 'hinge.' And the truth, at once… — David Ignatius Copy Share Image
When I was 17, I entered a modeling contest in my home province in China because my mother wanted me to learn… — Liu Wen Copy Share Image
Unless you're playing a historical figure, a writer or director can change their minds. And sometimes your job is to make them… — Timothy Simons Copy Share Image
“And so the Red Army, squeezed between two of the most brutal dictators in human history, fought on. - Symphony for the… — M T Anderson Copy Share Image
The reality of Canadian history is that we've been willing to do the important things the world demanded of us: fighting in… — Chris Alexander Copy Share Image
One baby is a patient baby, and waits indefinitely until its mother is ready to feed it. The other baby is an… — Emmeline Pankhurst Copy Share Image
Darwin's book is very important and serves me as a basis in natural science for the class struggle in history. One has… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
“Being an Armenian is a merciless task and a heroic enterprise. It is a commandment, a mission, and a destiny that history… — Keri Topouzian Copy Share Image
But the sages of Greece and Rome turned aside from the awful spectacle, and, pursuing the ordinary occupations of life and study,… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Millions of Christians can and do go through life attending church, listening to sermons, reciting the creeds and never confront the seeming… — A. N. Wilson Copy Share Image
The history of mankind is a romance, a mask, a tragedy, constructed upon the principles of POETICAL JUSTICE; it is a noble… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
When you're a guest star on a movie or a TV show, I always say it's like being invited to a family… — Ato Essandoh Copy Share Image
I think the idea is now for blacks to write about the history of our music. It's time for that, because whites… — Dizzy Gillespie Copy Share Image
I have a very connected history with Bilal. I heard his demo years ago. I heard all of the magic instantly. He's… — Q-Tip Copy Share Image
To me, the difference between mythology and real history is that the real history has to tell a kind of believable story… — Bruno Heller Copy Share Image
“The finite, to me, was a thing of beauty. There was a start and an end. Someday we'd all be history, and… — Bill Konigsberg Copy Share Image
One thing I like about historical fiction is that I'm not constantly focusing on me, or people like me; you're obliged to… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
“every day, such that the first-century Judeo-Roman historian Flavius Josephus recounts that there were not enough crosses for the bodies.” — Michael J Ruszala Copy Share Image
Rockfield is a famous studio where we recorded early Simple Minds songs. It holds a bit of our own history and Queen… — Jim Kerr Copy Share Image
The greatest country in the history of the world being attacked. So all of this doesn't mean very much today. — Bud Selig Copy Share Image
You'd have to have one hell of an imagination to completely make up a story, but historians are very anal about what… — Dougray Scott Copy Share Image
Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
We must remember that one determined person can make a significant difference, and that a small group of determined people can change… — Sonia Johnson Copy Share Image
Syria has become the great tragedy of this century - a disgraceful humanitarian calamity with suffering and displacement unparalleled in recent history, — Antonio Guterres Copy Share Image
Fear is the most easily taught of all lessons, and the fight against terror, real or imagined, is perhaps the history of… — Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Copy Share Image
I keep my Scottish connection. I know where I was born, and that's an important part of my history, and I think… — Jimmy Barnes Copy Share Image
It is not possible to completely eliminate mediation between you as an observer and the history you are trying to understand. — Ken Liu Copy Share Image
And some things that should not have been forgotten were lost. History became legend. Legend became myth. And for two and a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Nothing is insignificant in the history of a young community, and - above all - nothing seems impossible. — Catherine Helen Spence Copy Share Image
I think the tradition of well-written history hasn't been squashed out of the academic world as much in Britain as it has… — Adam Hochschild Copy Share Image
I don't know if a country (America) where the people are so ignorant of reality and of history, if you can call… — Jane Fonda Copy Share Image
What is love? In English, a language; In Math, a problem; In History, a war; In Geography, a mountain; In Chemistry, a… — Abhishek Tiwari Copy Share Image
History is full of examples of people who clamp down after they began to enjoy too much freedom. Freedom can lead to… — Gary Ross Copy Share Image
Any historian worth their salt should be aware of wars, conflicts, catastrophes. They happen. This is part of the panorama. — Norman Davies Copy Share Image
We live in a world populated by structures - a complex mixture of geological, biological, social, and linguistic constructions that are nothing… — Manuel De Landa Copy Share Image
“The long history of this idea before Kant made it the basis of his Critique of Judgment shows that the concept of… — Hans-Georg Gadamer Copy Share Image
