“It is my opinion that education is a key component to peace and progress. Despite their arrogant claims to have all the… — Tommy Rodriguez Copy Share Image
Now, a good education is about so much more than just learning geometry or memorizing dates in history. All of that is… — Michelle Obama Copy Share Image
“Nobody can understand the greatness of the thirteenth century, who does not realize that it was a great growth of new things… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Issues over same-sex marriage and LGBT people in the PCUSA are not new: there is a 40-plus year history of arguments and… — Anthea Butler Copy Share Image
It's important to interrogate history, it's important to document history, because as a society we need constant reminders of the things that… — Matana Roberts Copy Share Image
Although... the Chief Magistrate must almost of necessity be chosen by a party and stand pledged to its principles and measures, yet… — James K. Polk Copy Share Image
I agree that we should regard all books of the Bible as equally inspired - and important. But some come into sharp… — Christopher J. H. Wright Copy Share Image
What happens from about 1954 to the late 1980s, is that we see a huge wave of optimism that school desegregation is… — Dana Goldstein Copy Share Image
A perfect historian must possess an imagination sufficiently powerful to make his narrative affecting and picturesque; yet he must control it so… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
At the same time the folk boom was happening, the civil rights movement was happening, the anti-war movement was happening, the ban… — Arlo Guthrie Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, both my mom and my dad worked night shifts, so we would spend a lot of time… — Katie Hill Copy Share Image
Long a student and admirer of the American West, its history, its art, its culture, its cast of personalities, I'm aware that… — Philip Anschutz Copy Share Image
I was brought up in a family which valued natural history. Both my parents knew the names of all the British wildflowers,… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“Politics is a story about the relationship between the past and the future; history is a story about the relationship between the… — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
I've heard it said that those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it. To that end, I think it's worth… — Steve Stoute Copy Share Image
We call 'Slavery is wrong' a moral truth because there is a specific history of theoretical investigation of a particular kind of… — Catherine Wilson Copy Share Image
“We do not teach history; we recreate the experience. We follow the chain of consequences - the tracks of the beast in… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Darwinism is under official protection throughout the world. No other ideology in history, no other idea, has ever been kept under such… — Harun Yahya Copy Share Image
“Their lives were precarious and they knew it. They were trying their best to fit themselves into a country which would never… — Steven Runciman Copy Share Image
Big History's not going to replace existing educational courses. It's not an attack on specialisation. It is simply the argument that specialisation… — David Christian Copy Share Image
The emergence of Uber X was really the most important pivot maybe in the history of Silicon Valley. It's a vast majority… — Brad Stone Copy Share Image
The Big Trump is a historic figure. The Big Trump beat 16 other people for the nomination. The Big Trump is creating… — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
My own sense as an American is that we have begun to experience the disadvantages of framing virtually all moral issues in… — David Wong Copy Share Image
Science would not be what it is if there had not been a Galileo, a Newton or a Lavoisier, any more than… — Norman Robert Campbell Copy Share Image
[T]he "home" represents the most precious human treasures, that of encounter, that of relations among people, different in age, culture and history,… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
No woman who is a woman says of a human body, 'it is nothing' ... On this one point, and on this… — Olive Schreiner Copy Share Image
“What seems strained - a mere triumph of perverse ingenuity - to one age, seems plain and obvious to another, so that… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“The pro-life cause originated at a far earlier date than historians have previously thought, and its origins were not tied to a… — Daniel K. Williams Copy Share Image
“Tolkien came to regard the tale of Beren and Tinuviel as 'the first example of the motive (to become dominant in Hobbits)… — John Garth Copy Share Image
Every American from Orlando to Los Angeles should have an understanding of our country's history. We should know how our government works… — Michael Waltz Copy Share Image
“In her usual manner, Merkel spoke in German. It is worth pointing out, however, that before the translator had an opportunity to… — Claudia Clark Copy Share Image
“Zach's eyelids flutter and droop, his mind a pleasant jumble—things said tonight, last year, last month, things said in dreams. He sees… — Emma Richler Copy Share Image
I'm one of those persons who think that watching black people suffer is not an idea of entertainment. I know a lot… — Harry Lennix Copy Share Image
“Even mighty states and kingdoms are not exempted. If we look into history, we shall find some nations rising from contemptible beginnings… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
Just as the historian can teach no real history until he has cured his readers of the romantic delusion that the greatness… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The 1960s was probably the first time in history that young people were recognized as a big group of consumers and as… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
... in going over the history of all the inventions for which history could be obtained it became more and more clear… — Reginald Fessenden Copy Share Image
History is always written by the winners. When two cultures clash, the loser is obliterated, and the winner writes the history books-books… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
If somebody's going to earn citizenship, with whatever other hurdles are put in the way, at the end of the road they… — Rudy Giuliani Copy Share Image
Mention the name George W. Bush in mixed company, and you're likely to spark a lot of debate and emotion - hot… — Mark McKinnon Copy Share Image