America is the greatest nation ever founded. The ideals are the greatest ever espoused in human history, and we just need the… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
In history as it comes to be written, there is usually some Spirit of the Age which historians can define, but the… — Joseph Wood Krutch Copy Share Image
Our time here on the earth is short, and our chance to make a difference is tiny. For me the grinding blocks… — Paul Rusesabagina Copy Share Image
At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom. A moment comes, which… — Jawaharlal Nehru Copy Share Image
“It’s important to honor your ancestors. Bringing in a piece of furniture or an object you’ve inherited from a loved one not… — Jeffrey A. Wands Copy Share Image
This time, we're living in such a crazy moment in history. People still write and talk about Watergate, which was such a… — Patterson Hood Copy Share Image
There is time, and there is beyond time. History belongs to time, but truth belongs to what is beyond time. In writing… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
History is a strange experience. The world is quite small now; but history is large and deep. Sometimes you can go much… — Gilbert Highet Copy Share Image
The nation's largest savings and loan, Washington Mutual, has become the biggest bank failure in history. See, the problem with the savings… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
Nothing's new since Genesis. And so everybody in their life thinks history began when they were born. Most people's historical perspective happened… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
“Congressional oversight: When a congressional representative forgets to do something. (Historical note: this phrase once had another meaning, but since 9/11, years… — Tom Engelhardt Copy Share Image
“ Don't. I understand. I knew going into this that a story about us was also going to be a story about… — S.C. Stephens Copy Share Image
“In political affairs illusions are usually the product of a failure to appreciate change; but such failure-usually a necessary and perhaps salutary… — Laurence Lafore Copy Share Image
“Here we are on top of the world. We have arrived at this peak to stay there forever. There is, of course,… — Graham Allison Copy Share Image
We have never in human history seen a run-up in credit of the kind we have just witnessed in advanced economies since… — Alan M. Taylor Copy Share Image
We need to develop respect for our history, despite all of its flaws, and love for the Fatherland. We need to pay… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
Who does not know history's first law to be that an author must not dare to tell anything but the truth? And… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
“Not just Negroponte, who doesn't like to read, but even Birkerts, who thinks that history is ending, underestimates the instability of society… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
“The record of anarchist ideas, and even more, of the inspiring struggles of people who have sought to liberate themselves from oppression… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
And out of that hopeless attempt has come nearly all that we call human history—money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery—the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I didn't think it sounded so much different than anyone else's voice until I got to the broadcasting school, and I raised… — Robin Quivers Copy Share Image
Ours was the first revolution in the history of mankind that truly reversed the course of government, and with three little words:… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Shut my eyes and when I can hear our breathing go in sync I dirft into sleep. Chapter 5 -Dirty secrets and… — Jade Copy Share Image
I think history repeats itself. There's a constant conversation between the oppressed and the oppressor. No matter what your field is, whether… — Michael B. Jordan Copy Share Image
“The number of his wives is uncertain. Abulfeda, who writes with more caution than other of the Arabian historians, limits it to… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
You Can't Kill the Spirit resonates with the voices and power of women around the globe who have refused to be either… — Charlotte Bunch Copy Share Image
Hulk will always be a part of sports entertainment/professional wrestling history, and there's nothing that's gonna change that. His relationship with the… — Eric Bischoff Copy Share Image
History is often the tale of small moments—chance encounters or casual decisions or sheer coincidence—that seem of little consequence at the time,… — Scott Anderson Copy Share Image
If one is going to offer children stories that underneath the story must be something that will inform, stimulate and guide, I… — Ben Kingsley Copy Share Image
“Fincher was the kind of Southerner who will try to address you through a web of deep and antic southernness, and who… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
“The paradox of our time in history is that we have taller buildings but shorter tempers, wider Freeways, but narrower viewpoints. We… — Bob Moorehead Copy Share Image
“To be the child of a conficted or reputed witch was inherently dangerous; in one pathetic case in Lorraine a young couple… — Robin Briggs Copy Share Image
“The work had its own history of struggle. Originally intended as a showpiece for pianist Nikolai Rubinstein, it was dismissed by that… — Stuart Isacoff Copy Share Image
“If you want to draw some advantage from your history, you must accept not only this miracle but also many others. In… — Alejandro Jodorowsky Copy Share Image
“Myths and legends, either about divinities or the formation and history of peoples and races, began to look like pictures on a… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
Anyone who clings to the historically untrue-and thoroughly immoral-doctrine that, 'violence never settles anything' I would advise to conjure the ghosts of… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
So, at one extreme you have indigenous, tribal societies trying to stem the race to disaster. At the other extreme, the richest,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There's a long history in the Middle East of "bread intifadas," starting with 1977 in Egypt, when Anwar Sadat tried to lift… — Annia Ciezadlo Copy Share Image
“History is, above all else, the creation and recording of that heritage; progress is its increasing abundance, preservation, transmission, and use. To… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
Look at the history of civil laws in our world and the source from which they emerged, and you will see that… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
