Throughout American history our presidents have invoked our nation's founding fathers. This is particularly true of recent presidents. — Paul Kengor Copy Share Image
No country in history ever sent mothers of toddlers off to fight enemy soldiers until the United States did this in the… — Phyllis Schlafly Copy Share Image
“…what I told them was 'a poem,' a thing made by a maker, a work of art, part history of long ago,… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
As has happened so often in history, victory had bred a complacency and fostered an orthodoxy which led to defeat in the… — B. H. Liddell Hart Copy Share Image
The use of natural history is to give us aid in supernatural history: the use of the outer creation, to give us… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The audiences are there as a result of my history with the band but also as a result of my being able… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
Helplessness induces hopelessness, and history attests that loss of hope and not loss of lives is what decides the issue of war. — B. H. Liddell Hart Copy Share Image
There are no pat answers - we're pushing through some new frontiers, and lessons of the past don't always apply. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I thought working in other universes that had a lot of history - and I had personal affection for, like 'Sherlock Holmes'… — Simon Kinberg Copy Share Image
“Try to think of it as though we are rewriting history––the first time this experience occurred you and I never kissed in… — Ross Caligiuri Copy Share Image
“Although he had changed his name, his history came with him, even to his writing. The rhythm of his rain-soaked childhood became… — Pam Muñoz Ryan Copy Share Image
I want to record history through the destiny of individuals who often belong to the least wealthy classes. I do not want… — James Nachtwey Copy Share Image
One of the things that has really hit home for me is that the world is how we decide it is going… — Deborah Ellis Copy Share Image
“The trouble with Malaysia is we are subconsciously trying to erase our past. The history beyond the prescribed narrative of The Alliance… — Brian Yap Copy Share Image
“modern U.S. history. For an American president to be this insensitive to the security needs of Israel at a time of such… — Reed Ralph Copy Share Image
The world has changed far more in the past 100 years than in any other century in history. The reason is not… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
I am very lucky and grateful to have this living link to a past era, the violin presumably having much more history… — Lara St. John Copy Share Image
I have a lot of history with Eric Young, he actually trained me in the very beginning of my career. We go… — Shawn Spears Copy Share Image
The resurrection is a fact better attested than any event recorded in any history, whether ancient or modern. — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
I had no idea of the historical evolution of the civilized world's music and had not realized that all modern music owes… — Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov Copy Share Image
I mean you look back at American history and American culture, it's pretty striking. I mean this has been the safest country… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“If you want rest, you have to take it. You have to resist the lure of busyness, make time for rest, take… — Alex Soojung-Kim Pang Copy Share Image
God will use whatever he wants to display his glory. Heavens and stars. History and nations. People and problems. — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
“Man lives consciously for himself but unconsciously he serves as an instrument for the accomplishment of historical and social ends.” — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
History teaches us that, whatever we say, racists will always distort the words of mainstream politicians to make themselves sound more respectable. — David Blunkett Copy Share Image
“Historical fiction is a hybrid, a blending of reported reality, reasonable speculation, psychological truth, and the author’s imagination.” — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
I don't tell everyone my life history because if everyone knows your inside-leg measurement, how can you surprise them? — Penelope Wilton Copy Share Image
I am terrified of restrictive religious doctrine, having learned from history that when men who adhere to any form of it are… — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
Clashes of values and the struggle for primacy constitute a constant in human history that accounts for that other constant - conflict… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
What happens, happens. It's permanent, forever lost in history. There's no turning back & time stops for no one. But the things… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The abundance of Roman historical mysteries contrasts with the surprising paucity of crime novels set in classical Greece. — Sarah Weinman Copy Share Image
“We have such a long history that when I look into his eyes that's all I can see. I forget the stupidity… — K.A. Linde Copy Share Image
There is as far as I know, no example in history, of any state voluntarily ceding power from the centre to its… — Charles Handy Copy Share Image
“What I want to know is, in the Middle Ages, did they do anything for Housemaid's Knee? What did they put in… — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image
Just because many modern academics are very secular does not mean that we should ignore those factors in earlier generations - and… — Philip Jenkins Copy Share Image
“Only twenty - nine years in the entire human history had been without warfare, and now here he was too, travelling between… — Nadeem Aslam Copy Share Image
“History doesn't remember gardens. … You forgot the wise administrators, those who kept the peace, those who brought prosperity. You needn’t feel… — Andrew Ashling Copy Share Image
What do you call it when two people have intense shared history? when nothing can separate them? Soul Sisters — Susane Colasanti Copy Share Image
So there is no new truth, but only a fresh revelation of ancient truth, as she testified in the Scriptures. — Biniam Yibaleh Copy Share Image
I'm not an overnight success. My early publishing history, through my first five books, was unfortunate in many respects, typified by a… — John Lescroart Copy Share Image
