“When the singing ended, I chatted with others in my pew, including a tall, aristocratic-looking man with pomaded gray hair. I told… — Tony Horwitz Copy Share Image
“It can certainly be misleading to take the attributes of a movement, or the anxieties and contradictions of a moment, and to… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
During the games of the Circus, he had, imprudently or designedly, performed the manumission of a slave in the presence of the… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
The great word Evolution had not yet, in 1860, made a new religion of history, but the old religion had preached the… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
“This is a place where books are treasured – books that hold the sweetly magical smell of history; books that crackle when… — Cassia Leo Copy Share Image
I love general history. That's all I read really. I don't read novels, I read history. I love it. I live in… — Steve Zahn Copy Share Image
“The historical anthropologist Gerald Sider once wrote, "We can have no significant understanding of any culture unless we also know the silences… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
I've often said that all poetry is political. This is because real poems deal with a human response to reality and politics… — Yehuda Amichai Copy Share Image
'Smart Funny and Black' is basically a live black pop culture game show that I created. We have a live band. We… — Amanda Seales Copy Share Image
The reason I moved to Nashville was because I was reading biographies of a lot of my country music heroes, and I… — Lindi Ortega Copy Share Image
“Bosnia's war had its visual hallmarks. Parks that were turned into cemeteries, refugee families piled onto horse-drawn carts, stop-or-die checkpoints with mines… — Peter Maass Copy Share Image
“Reach into your pocket, a few taps on your smartphone, and you can know anything. We are all omniscient. I have the… — Robert Brockway Copy Share Image
History is my passion. So I write what I love to read. I find that if I combine history with a strong,… — Virginia Henley Copy Share Image
“The history of our race and personal religious experience run so closely parallel as to seem to a modern observer almost the… — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image
The history of a city was like the history of a family—there is closeness and even affection, but death eventually separates everyone… — John Irving Copy Share Image
AMD's history is we've always had great technology. We've had periods of time where we've done really, really well, and we've had… — Lisa Su Copy Share Image
“Women enjoy a different history of madness. From witchcraft to hysteria we're just bad news. We know that women were condemned as… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“I saw the patterns of history and thought that a human might be eighty per cent chemicals, eighteen per cent his past,… — Gerard Donovan Copy Share Image
We need to encourage black women to know that they are authors of their own destiny, that they have important stories to… — Michaela Coel Copy Share Image
As a German, in view of the history of World War II and the terrible deeds of the Nazi period, I feel… — Helmut Kohl Copy Share Image
“Why do we need time travel, when we already travel through space so far and fast? For history. For mystery. For nostalgia.… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
If there is any hope that we in America might one day overcome our own history of genocide, slavery, discrimination, and oppression… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
“Ribbentrop brushed aside the Jewish extermination events. He said that in the long view, historically, the Jews' extermination would always be a… — Leon Goldensohn Copy Share Image
In relation to the political decontamination of our public life, the government will embark upon a systematic campaign to restore the nation's… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
“A parcel--taken from one place to another, handed from one owner to another, unwrapped and bundled up at will--is all that I… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
Look around you and look at history. You will see the achievements of man’s mind. You will see man’s unlimited potentiality for… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
History shows that when a state is intent upon making war against another state, even though not adjacent, it begins to seek… — Joseph Stalin Copy Share Image
My family kept its history to itself. On the plus side, I didn't have to hear nightmarish stories about the Holocaust, the… — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
“(1) War becomes a completely isolated act, which arises suddenly, and is in no way connected with the previous history of the… — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
My Faith, is unwavering. I believe in God, just not in any organized Religion, for surely, history has shown us, anything Humans… — Eric Nickel Copy Share Image
White America has seen to it that Black history has been suppressed in schools and in American history books. The bravery of… — Huey Newton Copy Share Image
The color, the shape, and the texture--none of it is accidental. Every item we wear has a glorious (or sometimes not so… — Tim Gunn Copy Share Image
If we look back into history for the character of the present sects in Christianity, we shall find few that have not… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“I linger near Galileo’s telescopes, then round the corner and stand transfixed: I did not expect this- a dark, cool room full… — Paul Bogard Copy Share Image
“No institution of learning of Ingersoll 's day had courage enough to confer upon him an honorary degree; not only for his… — Joseph Lewis Copy Share Image
“...to handicap a student by teaching him that his black face is a curse and that his struggle to change his condition… — Carter G. Woodson Copy Share Image
When a character has as wide an audience and as rich a history as Batman, it's truly exciting to see him introduced… — Jim Lee Copy Share Image
We tend in this country to talk about Democrats and Republicans, and think there's little group over there called Independents that's maybe… — Adam Davidson Copy Share Image
The amount of U.S. debt held by countries such as China and Japan is at a historic high, with foreign investors holding… — Evan Bayh Copy Share Image
“Like a flower pressed flat and dried, we try to hold it still and say, this is exactly how it was the… — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
