I do tend to look at individuals and whether they do or do not matter in history. — Margaret MacMillan Copy Share Image
I have to constantly negotiate the tension between past neighborhood and present neighborhood. — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
Every president, as he nears the end of his final term in office, thinks about his place in history. — Kathleen Troia McFarland Copy Share Image
“for in history there is nothing more pleasing than clear and brilliant brevity.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
The history of the white man in India really jumped up and bit me in the neck. — Roland Joffe Copy Share Image
“... to say we would repeat history was unfair when that history was unknown to us.” — Jennifer L. Armentrout Copy Share Image
When you break a world record you're making history. It really lifts you in status in your sport at the time. — Colin Jackson Copy Share Image
“The historian is an indissoluble part of his history, as the poet is of his poem, as the shadowy biographer is of… — A.S. Byatt Copy Share Image
Probably the TV show I've watched the most is 'How It's Made' on the History Channel. I could watch 24 hours of… — Shane Carruth Copy Share Image
Who wouldn't want to be the all-time passing leader in FCS? Or in school history? At the end of the day, if… — Devlin Hodges Copy Share Image
Political and social history are in my view two aspects of the same process. Social life loses half its interest and political… — F. M. Powicke Copy Share Image
“Sagan is an astronomer with one eye on the stars, another on history, and a third—his mind’s—on the human condition.…” — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The United States is the most dishonest, ungodly, unspiritual nation that ever existed in the history of the planet. — Dick Gregory Copy Share Image
The truth is that tariffs have a long and storied history as both a revenue-raising tool and a way of protecting strategically… — Scott Bessent Copy Share Image
“The hero is a device which the historian has taken over from the layman. He uses it because he has no scientific… — B.F. Skinner Copy Share Image
America is a melting pot for all different groups of people, historically. And it's rare that the story of all of these… — Nas Copy Share Image
“A behavior has occurred that is good, bad, or ambiguous. How have cultural factors stretching back to the origins of humans contributed… — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
The notion of women being written out of history is as old as the Bible, but it always seems more galling when… — Emily Thornberry Copy Share Image
When over long periods of human history I scrutinized the activity of the Jewish people, suddenly there arose up in me the… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
He stands behind me and gives me little pushes. We sit there in silence watching the guys goof off and Heath take… — Jade Copy Share Image
“Hundreds of families throughout New England responded to appeals to donate either 12 shillings per family or a peck of grain to… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Hydroelectric dams remain the way many poor countries gain access to reliable electricity, and both solar and wind might be worthwhile in… — Michael Shellenberger Copy Share Image
