no one has ever built them before in written history. (But…

It seems to me, that this, too, is how memory works. What we remember of what was done to us shapes our view, molds…

— Rebecca Walker

I think we fool ourselves and really negate a great deal of history if we think that the oral history of poetry is shorter…

— Saul Williams

During the whole period of written history, it is not the workers but the robbers who have been in control of the world

— Scott Nearing

“Three million years! The infinitely crowded panorama of written history, with its empires and its kings, its triumphs and its tragedies, covered barely one…

— Arthur C. Clarke

“History is supposed to be an accurate, and full, account of what actually happened. Politics is never about what actually happened. Politics is always…

— Neale Donald Walsch

I have never seen an adequate description anywhere of the amazement, the uncomprehending horror of the bulk of the American people which preceded the…

— Rebecca Harding Davis

here are the top three global resources getting scarcer in the twenty-first century: ozone layer, rain forest, people eager to read the fiction of…

— Sandra Tsing Loh

Written history may, in the course of its narrative, use some of the laws established by the various sciences, but its own task remains…

— Lloyd deMause

For thousands of years, men have written history, so it seems to me that most of what we've read is from the male point…

— Stacy Schiff

There is something eternal in the very nature of writing, as is so graphically illustrated by the scriptures themselves. In a very real sense,…

— John H. Groberg

But, sir, they have written me down upon the history of the country as worthy of expulsion, and in no unkindness I must tell…

— Preston Brooks

My whole written history is one big lie! I mean, I can't even believe my history.

— Dennis Hopper

Although it is tempting to imagine an ancient era innocent of biochemical weaponry, in fact this Pandora's box of horrors was opened thousands of…

— Adrienne Mayor

We did it. Make no mistake: We have written history. Today there's a change of guards in Denmark.

— Helle Thorning-Schmidt

“She has to be written out of history and written into myth.”

— Hal Duncan