I'm really interested in history and when I looked into the settlers who came to my home state, North Carolina, I found… — Rhiannon Giddens Copy Share Image
Psychotherapy is what God has been secretly doing for centuries by other names; that is, he searches through our personal history and… — Thomas Keating Copy Share Image
Fortunately, there's another handy driver that has manifested itself throughout the history of cultures. The urge to want to gain wealth. That… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“Last night I snuck an orchestra into the elevator at my apartment. We made elevator music history until Marvin got his oboe… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
One of the sad realities today is that very few people, especially young people, read books. Unless we can find imaginative ways… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
“I suppose history always did have in it a large bit of the perspective of those who wrote it. People tend to… — Na'ama Yehuda Copy Share Image
The missionary church is a praying church. The history of missions is a history of prayer. Everything vital to the success of… — John Mott Copy Share Image
Future lawyers should be more aware that law is not a system of abstract logic, but the web of arrangements, rooted in… — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share Image
I lost a girlfriend when I was in my 30s. She was 46. It all sounds so trite, but I put a… — Samantha Bond Copy Share Image
I believe human beings mark a threshold in the development of the planet, of course, but it is only part of the… — David Christian Copy Share Image
“But history is that rare woman who doesn't like to look at herself in the mirror. History, when she finds herself in… — Yevgeny Yevtushenko Copy Share Image
My particular historical vantage point is a product of my upbringing as that odd duck, a native Washingtonian whose parents were not… — Frank Rich Copy Share Image
The Champions League is the one thing missing from my career. When I look at the history of the competition and the… — Eden Hazard Copy Share Image
“Future historians, pondering changes in British society from the 1980s onwards, will struggle to account for the following curious fact. Although British… — Stefan Collini Copy Share Image
I can't imagine something being beautiful at this point in history if it's destroying the planet or causing children to get sick.… — William McDonough Copy Share Image
I couldn't speak though. When he turned to face me his face was consorted with anger. He wiped blood off my chin.… — Jade Copy Share Image
“TO BE HOPEFUL in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
In the history of each sport, the heroes who win the Olympic gold medal are the ones we remember. Nobody remembers the… — Lavinia Milosovici Copy Share Image
“flaunting the Kohinoor on the Queen Mother’s crown in the Tower of London is a powerful reminder of the injustices perpetrated by… — Shashi Tharoor Copy Share Image
“The movement to join Washington had a substantial following in the 1850s, centred in Montreal...It faced considerable resistance, though - in part… — Doug Saunders Copy Share Image
“The root of the black man's hatred is rage, and he does not so much had the white man as simply as… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
So in your discussions of the nuclear freeze proposals, I urge you to beware the temptation of pride - the temptation blithely… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
To hell with the truth! As the history of the world proves, the truth has no bearing on anything. It's irrelevant and… — Eugene O'Neill Copy Share Image
“The theories of the French revolutionaries, as summarized by historian Roger Hancock, were founded on "respect for no humanity except that which… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
One cannot be a good historian of the outward, visible world without giving some thought to the hidden, private life of ordinary… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Through the history of art we can see through the emotional life, and sometimes the financial security of some of the artists,… — Arman Copy Share Image
Director Ken Burns revealed that his next documentary is about Franklin Roosevelt, and it's fourteen hours long...which sounds like too much, until… — Jimmy Fallon Copy Share Image
Most readers of historical fiction are content to just get caught up in a good story, and that is what I want… — Melanie Benjamin Copy Share Image
In American history, it's about hard work and self-reliance. It's not about collecting giveaways or being on unemployment forever. That the economy… — Ryan Zinke Copy Share Image
I think ceramics are so amazing because they're incredibly educational - you can buy something made in the 14th century, and it… — Jonathan Anderson Copy Share Image
“Logically, this kind of atheism did not prove that there was no God… On the contrary, Southwell was typical in placing the… — Edward Royle Copy Share Image
“Far back in history, there is evidence that men who have attempted to solve the riddle of water have been bitterly attacked.… — Viktor Schauberger Copy Share Image
Black Panther is a historic opportunity to be a part of something important and special, particularly at a time when African Americans… — Joe Robert Cole Copy Share Image
“You see, I have been at revaluing myself in the last few days. I may have some value to historians because I… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“But why should 1299 CE be considered the founding date of the empire? – there were no famous battles, no declarations of… — Caroline Finkel Copy Share Image
We the undersigned, intend to establish an instruction and training institution which differs from the common elementary schools principally in that it… — C. F. W. Walther Copy Share Image
“...history is a selection process - it chooses moments and events, and even people - it hands them a situation that they… — Brad Meltzer Copy Share Image
In their censures of luxury the fathers are extremely minute and circumstantial; and among the various articles which excite their pious indignation,… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
I myself am convinced that the theory of evolution, especially to the extent to which it has been applied, will be one… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
“since historians must and ought to be exact, truthful, and absolutely free of passions, for neither interest, fear, rancor, nor affection should… — Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Copy Share Image
