History, in a democratic age, tends to become a series of popular apologies, and is inclined to assume that the people can… — Albert Pollard Copy Share Image
“The bookcase was filled with computer games, history books, and sci-fi novels in about equal proportions. Odd reading choices, maybe, but I… — Mike Mullin Copy Share Image
I don't know the history of art, but I got over intimidation from the art world when I realized that I was… — Marc Jacobs Copy Share Image
You were born at a pretty crappy time in history. And it looks like things are only gonna get worse from here… — Ernest Cline Copy Share Image
When you think of the great eight-wicket bowling figures in Test history, the names of Michael Holding, Shane Warne and Stuart Broad… — Jonathan Agnew Copy Share Image
Norway has a great history of women's football, but it's harder now. We've stopped talking about development, and other countries have overtaken… — Ada Hegerberg Copy Share Image
Indeed optimists rather than defeatists have produced the results for which serious genealogical research is best known. — Alex Haley Copy Share Image
“The presiding spirit of Welsh history has been the shape-shifter Gwydion the Magician, who always changed his shape and always stayed the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's something I'd find rather distracting in a historical piece, looking at characters that have obviously just gotten off their Ab Blaster.… — Tom Weston-Jones Copy Share Image
“the complexity and meaning of the Los Angeles revival still challenges historians. Its themes of eschatological expectancy and evangelistic power (Parham’s legacy)… — Stanley M. Horton Copy Share Image
The reason to deal with Social Security is that it is a system where we have a tradition and history of making… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I am speaking to you from the Cabinet Room at 10 Downing Street. This morning the British Ambassador in Berlin handed the… — Neville Chamberlain Copy Share Image
At this point, we are living one of the greatest experiments in humankind - to create something that has, throughout history, been… — Esther Perel Copy Share Image
The "sayings" of a community, its proverbs, are its characteristic comment upon life; they imply its history, suggest its attitude toward the… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
One of the frustrations of someone like Thomas Cromwell is that, before they step into the light of history, and become extremely… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
But I have to say this in defense of humankind: In no matter what era in history, including the Garden of Eden,… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
There are no bigger donkeys than these workers… Look at our 'craftsmen'; Sad that world history should be be made with such… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
“The story of the return of the Jewish people to its ancestral homeland became, in short, one of the great dramas in… — Daniel Gordis Copy Share Image
In the long run, the world is going to have the best, and any difference in race, religion, or previous history will… — Booker T. Washington Copy Share Image
I think that if Essien Udom had something he didn't take it back far enough in history to get at the proper… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
A world in which government is burdened by historic debt, philanthropy has limited resources, and the private sector is only interested in… — Simon Mainwaring Copy Share Image
A historian can never claim to have the last word on anything as he is limited by his sources and further so… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
While it has been mostly unreported, Mr. Trump has embraced the LGBT community like no other GOP nominee in history. — Richard Grenell Copy Share Image
Anger does not make history. Power does. And power may be supplemented by anger, but it derives from more fundamental realities; geography,… — George Friedman Copy Share Image
I was a history major at Princeton University; I took exams in war and diplomacy, and I find those things very fascinating. — Dean Cain Copy Share Image
It is in times of difficulty that great nations like great men display the whole energy of their character and become an… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
I got more mail than anybody on the history of The Today Show, but half of it was to get me off… — Willard Scott Copy Share Image
History has recorded nothing so dramatic in design, nor so skillfully manipulated, as this attempt to create the National Reserve Association, or… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
I realized that part of that anger was because I didn't know who I was and where I came from. I didn't… — Shola Lynch Copy Share Image
For all of higher civilization's recorded history, becoming a man was defined overwhelmingly as taking responsibility for a family. — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
The greatest advances in human civilization have come when we recovered what we had lost: when we learned the lessons of history. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Psychohistory, as a science, will always be problem-centered, while history will always remain period-centered. They are simply two different tasks. — Lloyd deMause Copy Share Image
You can't play history and you can't play historical characters. You just have to reduce it to the ordinary. — Lorraine Toussaint Copy Share Image
“But the lie often repeated becomes history, and the snake-oil pitchman's forgery of yore becomes the inspirational gospel of a posterity that… — Nick Tosches Copy Share Image
The bungalow had more to do with how Americans live today than any other building that has gone remotely by the name… — Russell Lynes Copy Share Image
If you think the shifting tectonics of world history might make for a juicy crime fiction backdrop, the last decade or so… — Sarah Weinman Copy Share Image
If we're going to continue to move forward as a nation, we can't allow concern about discomfort to displace knowledge, truth, or… — Ketanji Brown Jackson Copy Share Image
There are two national historic landmarks: the Madam Walker Legacy Center in Indianapolis and the Madam C.J. Walker House in Irvington, New… — A'Lelia Bundles Copy Share Image
In the U.S., highly selective renditions of its history have served in practice to impose blinkers on some of its citizens and… — Linda Colley Copy Share Image
Black History Month must be more than just a month of remembrance; it should be a tribute to our history and reminder… — Marty Meehan Copy Share Image
