“The history of education is a seemingly endless parade of “new ideas” that are actually old ideas renamed.” — Diane Ravitch Copy Share Image
The old always think the world is getting worse; it is for the young, equipped with historical facts, to point out that,… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
At university, I said to a girl, 'Before I met you all I could think about was history; now, all I can… — Joe Thomas Copy Share Image
I have such a personal life history with R&B - it's the first music I remember hearing, and it feels like a… — Giveon Copy Share Image
'The Dovekeepers' is a compelling, beautifully written novel that combines history and fiction into a timeless story of survival and heroism. — Nina Tassler Copy Share Image
A map is the dead body of where you've been. A map is the unborn baby of where you're going. There are… — Russell Hoban Copy Share Image
Mankind has probably done more damage to the Earth in the 20th century than in all of previous human history. — Jacques Yves Cousteau Copy Share Image
Who owns history? Everyone and no one--which is why the study of the past is a constantly evolving, never-ending journey of discovery. — Eric Foner Copy Share Image
Every album has a thing where it's like, "How are we going to marry our four ideas and personalities?" The older we… — Ed Droste Copy Share Image
“From a long view of the history of mankind-seen from, say, ten thousand years from now-there can be little doubt that the… — Richard Feynman Copy Share Image
I had decent but not great grades in high school because I was highly motivated in some subjects, like the arts, drama,… — J. C. Chandor Copy Share Image
“Morality is violence. An invisible violence at first. Love is a supreme violence, hidden deep in the darkness of our atoms. When… — Etel Adnan Copy Share Image
“Language itself is so value-laden as to render value-neutrality almost impossible. Growing up in England I was introduced to the American Revolution… — Arthur F. Holmes Copy Share Image
In France, and at the most important period of our history, Catherine de' Medici has suffered more from popular error than any… — Honoré De Balzac Copy Share Image
After eight months of one of the most intensive public and private investigations in American history, no one - no one -… — Steven Hatfill Copy Share Image
“I must say that the charm of the Arctic, its infinite diversity, its aloofness from the rest of the world, made it… — Louise Arner Boyd Copy Share Image
The contribution of Islam to history and modern civilization is the product of the efforts of peoples of many races and tongues… — Aly Khan Copy Share Image
Take dance music: I like enough of it and its history to be able to say a word or two about this… — John Darnielle Copy Share Image
“Not everyone believed in marriage then. To marry was to say you believed in the future and in the past, too -… — Paula McLain Copy Share Image
Tradition is an important help to history, but its statements should be carefully scrutinized before we rely on them. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
I don't plan ahead; each book finds me. History itself, the resonance of the past with the present, is the common denominator… — Guy Gavriel Kay Copy Share Image
From lies to forgeries the step is not so long, and I have written technical essays on the logic of forgeries and… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
As to the old history of Ireland, the first man ever died in Ireland was Partholan, and he is buried, and his… — Lady Gregory Copy Share Image
English football's history is so rich and the size of the clubs around, the so-called big six, are so big that it… — Kasper Schmeichel Copy Share Image
The history of a revolution is for us first of all a history of the forcible entrance of the masses into the… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
Under Obama's intentional neglect, the most barbaric force in modern history - the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) - has… — Wayne LaPierre Copy Share Image
The vision of the Internet as a vast digital wasteland isn't correct. Everything is awesome, and we have more stuff to read… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
General Electric, NBC's parent, is one of the largest corporations in the world, with an anti-labor history of outsourcing jobs and with… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
HISTORY OF PAST AND HOPE OF FUTURE WILL ALWAYS DEPENDS ON THE ACT OF PRESENT, SO BE FAST AND QUICK DON'T WASTE… — Nik Copy Share Image
As the centuries pass, the evidence is accumulating that, measured by His effect on history, Jesus is the most influential life ever… — Kenneth Scott Latourette Copy Share Image
A massive new penal system has emerged in the past few decades - a penal system unprecedented in world history. It is… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
There is a history of mental breakdowns in my family. It will never happen to me but it has happened to others… — Brian Cox Copy Share Image
“To the woman in the restaurant today, the doll in her arms was the real child who still lived in her memories.” — Shogo Oketani Copy Share Image
I'm slightly obsessed with women's history, so I'd love to talk to Emily Dickinson or Louisa May Alcott. — Sandi Toksvig Copy Share Image
“For the next ten years, until 1251, she and a small group of other women controlled the largest empire in world history.” — Jack Weatherford Copy Share Image
My dad saw himself as part of a historic struggle for human liberation: he met my mum canvassing for the Labour party… — Owen Jones Copy Share Image
The uneasy ghost of Marx must suffer the torments of the damned at the truth glaring from the pages of history that… — Louis O. Kelso Copy Share Image
If you look back throughout history from the ancient Egyptians onwards, most cultures started making clothing from a very basic premise: a… — Issey Miyake Copy Share Image
The urge to discover, to invent, to know the unknown, seems so deeply human that we cannot imagine our history without it. — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
I don't have space to enter into the examples or the history of this, so I'm left with having to make the… — Vivienne Westwood Copy Share Image
