History shows that the human mind, fed by constant accessions of knowledge, periodically grows too large for its theoretical coverings, and bursts… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
“The theological meaning of events in history is always filled with ambiguity, whether their significance is supported by centuries of tradition or… — Robert Louis Wilken Copy Share Image
“When William Johnson and slave walked down that long, winding American road toward freedom and justice, they didn't realize they would be… — Joy Hakim Copy Share Image
I am deeply grieved by the loss of the crew of Columbia. I express my sincere condolences to the families and friends… — Valentina Tereshkova Copy Share Image
You'd like to think we're past certain things, the way we treat people. I thought we were at a time where you… — Eric Reid Copy Share Image
“GOD IS SO WONDERFULLY GENEROUS in his self-disclosure. He has not revealed himself to this race of rebels in some stinting way,… — D.A. Carson Copy Share Image
“The world had reclaimed its own reality, and, just like after a catastrophe, my culture had ended: I was merely a historical… — Clarice Lispector Copy Share Image
“Very occasionally, a simplified form of communion and of adult baptism for new members of the church would be enacted but no… — Adam Nicolson Copy Share Image
My interest has always been in an architecture which reflects the modernity of our epoch as opposed to the rethinking of historical… — Jean Nouvel Copy Share Image
HISTORICAL SLUMMING: the act of visiting locations such as diners, smokestack industrial sites, rural villageslocations where time appears to have been frozen… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
I taught a lot of art history, especially Chinese, Japanese, and Indian. But the painting classes came back. The nudes came back.… — Ad Reinhardt Copy Share Image
We had one or another form of state capitalism during an extremely brief period of human history, which tells us essentially nothing… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Let us by all means teach black history, African history, women's history, Hispanic history, Asian history. But let us teach them as… — Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr Copy Share Image
“Tell me. You're a man who understands history," I said. "If you want to start a revolution, why not issue a manifesto?… — Nicholas Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“At every historical conjuncture, the present is not only present, it also encompasses a perspective on the past immanent to it—after the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Indeed, if these final decades of the millennium have taught us anything, it must be that oral tradition never was the ‘other’… — E. Anne Mackay Copy Share Image
“In every house, there was always one malcontent jealous prick out to destroy everyone else just for spite. The entire history of… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
We can make a little order where we are, and then the big sweep of history on which we can have no… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
I'll tell you...why Wonder Woman worked. Or Bionic Woman. Or any of those [shows] really. It was because it wasn't about brawn...it… — Lynda Carter Copy Share Image
Hold those things that tell your history and protect them. During slavery, who was able to read or write or keep anything?… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
That was when I noticed how close this guy was getting. He put his hands on either side of me. Wait when… — Jade Copy Share Image
“Conventional belief holds that after triumphing over a mid-career bout with polio, FDR went on to serve two vigorous terms as gov-… — Steven Lomazow Copy Share Image
History will help to remedy intellectual faults such as excessive concentration on one line of thought, absence of understanding for other points… — Geoffrey Elton Copy Share Image
It is a stern fact of history that no nation that rushed to the abyss ever turned back. Not ever, in the… — Taylor Caldwell Copy Share Image
We started America with the sin of slavery that led right into the post-reconstruction period which was the greatest period of domestic… — Cory Booker Copy Share Image
When we work with history, to a very great degree we are all guessing. But by using motifs of time and history… — Guy Gavriel Kay Copy Share Image
“Stories which have failed either to become popular folk lore or to be embalmed in old newspaper files are in great danger… — Ruby Elhult Copy Share Image
“This place where she worked certainly didn't make it look as if she continued to believe her calling was to change the… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
I can't deny that it will be a historic event for an African-American to become president. And should that happen, all Americans… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
The main duty of the historian of mathematics, as well as his fondest privilege, is to explain the humanity of mathematics, to… — George Sarton Copy Share Image
The freedom fighters in India's long struggle for independence from British rule, or members of the African National Congress, were once classed… — Neel Mukherjee Copy Share Image
“So by the beginning of the third century B.C. we find already arisen in the Western civilization of the old world three… — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image
All of my history as an African-American woman, as a Jewish woman, as a Muslim woman. I'm bringing everything I ever knew,… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
We live in a society where we're not taught how to deal with our weaknesses and frailties as human beings. We're not… — Iyanla Vanzant Copy Share Image
Women in the Arab world have a rich history in their active participation in political change from the Algeria revolution against the… — Zainab Salbi Copy Share Image
You know, Im directing a documentary about the history of Abbey Road Studios at the moment, so Ive been taken back to… — Mary McCartney Copy Share Image
I am a man of peace. I am longing and working and praying for peace, but I will not surrender the safety… — Stanley Baldwin Copy Share Image
“You know, I've been almost kidnapped and killed more times in the last thirty-six hours than anyone in history, and yet here… — SLJ Shortt Copy Share Image
“But there was a catalyst, an event, a moment which changed everything and not just for us. This is good for storytelling… — Laurie Frankel Copy Share Image
“During extraordinary historical moments—both world wars, the aftermath of the Great Depression, or the peak of the civil rights era—the usual categories… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image