The perpetual stream of human nature is formed into ever-changing shallows, eddies, falls and pools by the land over which it passes.… — Mary Renault Copy Share Image
“To be honest, the future doesn’t look too bright. You were born at a pretty crappy time in history. And it looks… — Ernest Cline Copy Share Image
I don't want to overvalue Donald Trump as some historical rupture, and to admit that I do think Trump is an indication… — Joshua Clover Copy Share Image
The volumes, the surfaces, the lines-in one word, the structures that build a tectonic construction-do not represent the whole picture: there is… — Emile Argand Copy Share Image
We are living in the machine age. For the first time in history the comedian has been compelled to supply himself with… — Fred Allen Copy Share Image
History, the winnowing wind, never halts. We see the chaff rise, forget the waiting grain, seed of the future, fallen to the… — Han Suyin Copy Share Image
There are two things in Indian history - one is the incredible optimism and potential of the place, and the other is… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Up to our own day American history has been in a large degree the history of the colonization of the Great West.… — Frederick Jackson Turner Copy Share Image
Protest to be effective, must be followed by resolute action and at this crisis in world history when materialistic energy aims at… — Vida Goldstein Copy Share Image
“And does history repeat itself, the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce?No, that’s too grand, too considered a process.… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
Their humble dwellings were of their own rearing; it was they themselves who had broken in their little fields; from time immemorial,… — Hugh Miller Copy Share Image
I'm not all dolled up. We tried to keep it as real as we could. We're telling you something that happened. It's… — Michel'le Copy Share Image
“I know what the world has done to my brother and how narrowly he has survived it. And I know, which is… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
“In the late 1970s, growth in Western economies began to slow down and returns on capital began to decline. Governments came under… — Jason Hickel Copy Share Image
What frustrated me was the thought that with three thousand years of history someone in China, some monk in a monastery halfway… — Ben Aaronovitch Copy Share Image
“Those who are ignorant of history and the evolution of taste are apt at every turn to make the present age their… — Anthony Ashley Cooper Shaftesbury Copy Share Image
We are inescapably the result of a long heritage of learning, adaptation, mutation and evolution, the product of a history which predates… — Fred Hoyle Copy Share Image
We're at a point in history were we have to become a part of the neighborhood of inhabited planets, like a neighborhood… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
My intention, certainly, is to create something which is aesthetic but many things are implicit in the work that I do. For… — Graciela Iturbide Copy Share Image
We were surrounded by influences and interests that came between Stephen and me. The nurse who became his wife was seeking to… — Jane Hawking Copy Share Image
“For, as Professor Turner has pointed out, “history originated as myth” and becomes a “social memory” to which men can appeal, “knowing… — Barbara W. Tuchman Copy Share Image
“At the edge of the field Silva and Stefan witnessed heartrending images in greyscale as thousands of desperate refugees streamed down the… — John Payton Foden Copy Share Image
It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for… — Robert Francis Kennedy Copy Share Image
“The Catholic Church was derived from three sources. Its sacred history was Jewish, its theology was Greek, its government and canon law… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“It is not “scientism” to concede the objectivity and precision of good science, any more than it is history worship to concede… — Daniel C. Dennett Copy Share Image
Elvis Presley was the big bang. He was the most influential single figure in the history of American pop culture. He changed… — Jimmy Iovine Copy Share Image
It seems to me, that this, too, is how memory works. What we remember of what was done to us shapes our… — Rebecca Walker Copy Share Image
“I have seen many amazing things in my long and troubled life history. I have seen a series of corridors built entirely… — Lemony Snicket Copy Share Image
“If you want to love him, you have to wash away the past. Only you can do this, my dear. You must… — Jasinda Wilder Copy Share Image
A great man is a gift, in some measure a revelation of God. A great man, living for high ends, is the… — George Stillman Hillard Copy Share Image
I have always thought that these two ways of talking, one is the fantastic, the fable, the fairy tale, and the other… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
And it may be that a crowd at a particular moment of history creates the object to justify its gathering, as it… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
You know, my mom, she's a little older than me. Her history in watching, you know, police violence and violence, period, over… — Rodney King Copy Share Image
“I do not mean to exclude books of history, poetry, or even fables from our schools. They may and should be read… — Benjamin Rush Copy Share Image
“History will have its say one day. Not the history they teach in Brussels, Paris, Washington or the United Nations but the… — Patrice Lumumba Copy Share Image
I went back and researched the history of gospel; where it came from, slavery times, communicating with each other without their master… — Boris Kodjoe Copy Share Image
My best wishes, in the joys, and festivities, and the solemn services of that day on which will be completed the fiftieth… — John Adams Copy Share Image
“I got incerdibly heavy boots about how relatively insignificant life is, and how, compared to the universe and compared to time, it… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“Reading history is good for all of us. If you know history, you know that there is no such thing as a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's extraordinary to me - you cannot name a presidential candidate in history who has singlehandedly, through bad trade deals, destroyed more… — Peter Navarro Copy Share Image