You know, songs often have a very coloured past. They might have something about them but it still doesn't work, so someone… — Kylie Minogue Copy Share Image
“Why are these historical observations interesting?...they suggest that we should be careful about attributing our distinction between philosophy and science to earlier… — Daniel Garber Copy Share Image
“roots of historical Babylon are given to us in Genesis 10 where we learn that one of Noah’s sons, Ham, had a… — John Price Copy Share Image
“If we are considering the history of our own country, we write at length of the periods when our ancestors were prosperous… — John Bagot Glubb Copy Share Image
“Within this historic and optimistic future in mind, I have made no value judgment of the destiny bestowed on each nation. For… — Patrick Mendis Copy Share Image
“Just as he did during the Slavery at Monticello tour, David did not mince words. "There’s a chapter in Notes on the… — Clint Smith Copy Share Image
Let me tell you what is coming. After the sacrifice of countless millions of treasure and hundreds of thousands of lives you… — Sam Houston Copy Share Image
In a one-hour documentary, you can tell maybe ten stories. That's how the documentary is structured. I wrote to forty of the… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
Grigsby's marvelous exploration-a deep, wide, and beautiful inquiry into Sojourner Truth's use of technology-features more of her photographs than have ever been… — Nell Irvin Painter Copy Share Image
“In what must surely be considered one of the great lost scripts of history (or a Saturday Night Live sketch), Chase brought… — Brett Martin Copy Share Image
It is not the literal past that rules us, save, possibly, in a biological sense. It is images of the past… Each… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
“Our generation will likely have the good fortune to experience two of the most amazing events in history: the creation of true… — Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee Copy Share Image
“This is the thing: If you have the option to not think about or even consider history, whether you learned it right… — Tommy Orange Copy Share Image
“Of the four worst K-12 school shootings in history, three have occurred in Europe. Germany was host to two of these—one in… — John R. Lott Jr Copy Share Image
“When I started researching airline stewardesses, I found that the topic made for amusing cocktail party banter. “You’re writing a book about… — Victoria Vantoch Copy Share Image
If you try to make interesting films, you're going to be disappointed most of the time. I choose just not to look… — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
“Our early history is lost in mist. It seems all we ever did was break rocks and beat each other with clubs.… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
At first I wanted to go to university, but I really didn't dare to. I was too self-conscious, being a working-class kid.… — Per Petterson Copy Share Image
I think that we have positive moments in our history and negative moments in our history. We incarcerated Japanese Americans in the… — Michael Bennet Copy Share Image
One reads the truer deeper facts of Reconstruction with a great despair. It is at once so simple and human, and yet… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A history of perceived humiliation, after all, lurks behind many acts of terror. And competing narratives of victimhood and insults sustain conflicts… — Serge Schmemann Copy Share Image
“It is not clear who will bring to the Whitehouse those useful commodities of vivid language, a sense of history and most… — Robert A. Caro Copy Share Image
“Of course, the political history of the United States is exactly the reverse. It is in large measure the history of a… — David Horowitz Copy Share Image
“Unfortunately it is not possible to destroy our history. It lives inside us, probably the more powerful for our attempts to bury… — Monica McGoldrick Copy Share Image
“The biggest revolution of the past 50,000 years of human history was not the advent of the Internet, the growth of the… — Spencer Wells Copy Share Image
“The official erasure of any existence before enslavement – as if black Americans did not exist before the yolk and the chains… — Bonnie Greer Copy Share Image
“I am not a fiction reader. If I already do, I read fiction always more like the illustration of a philosophical-political thesis… — Louis Tobback Copy Share Image
The Russian Revolution mobilized a popular passion across the world based on Marxism-Leninism, fueled by messianic zeal. It was, perhaps, after the… — Simon Sebag Montefiore Copy Share Image
Books of natural history aim commonly to be hasty schedules, or inventories of God's property, by some clerk. They do not in… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
America has no north, no south, no east, no west. The sun rises over the hills and sets over the mountains, the… — Sam Watkins Copy Share Image
And all times are one time, and all those dead in the past never lived before our definition gives them life, and… — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
“No mi kršćani upućeni smo po središtu našega Creda - 'mučen pod Poncijem Pilatom' - u povijest u kojoj je bilo razapinjanja… — Johann Baptist Metz Copy Share Image
“To expose the roots of liberal democracy in ethinic conflict is an act of destruction that is necessary to lay the foundations… — Mitchell Heisman Copy Share Image
“nobody was ever convicted for the “Saint Valentine’s Day Massacre,” the most famous gangland hit in American history. That said, Capone’s involvement… — Charles River Editors Copy Share Image
The world is very lucky to have America. It's got to be the first time in the whole history of the planet… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
History without the history of science, to alter slightly an apothegm of Lord Bacon, resembles a statue of Polyphemus without his eye-that… — I. Bernard Cohen Copy Share Image
I think one of the most important changes of our time has been our attitude to fear. Every civilisation defends itself by… — Theodore Zeldin Copy Share Image
One of the core ideas of the Bible is that meaning can be found in history. The sheer act of telling and… — Bruce Feiler Copy Share Image
“Throughout amerika's history, people have been imprisoned because of their political beliefs and charged with criminal acts in order to justify that… — Assata Shakur Copy Share Image
Any time you make an analogy to horrific people in history, Mussolini or Hitler, people say, 'Oh, you're exaggerating, you're talking about,… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
