Older people may have always existed throughout history…

Only our memories allow that some people ever existed. That they mattered, or mattered too much.

— Joe R. Lansdale

“I was going to do something I'd never done, and see things I could not understand and never believed existed. This is history, and…

— Andrew Smith

I don't want to big myself up, but goals like mine leave a mark on history because they're rare.

— Olivier Giroud

The problem is that my generation was pacified into believing that racism existed only in our history books.

— Chance The Rapper

“But history is that rare woman who doesn't like to look at herself in the mirror. History, when she finds herself in front of…

— Yevgeny Yevtushenko

We had to depend on other institutions to do research on our behalf. We had to use the information that already existed to craft…

— Anonymous

Stasis is something that has marked my life since I was a boy growing up in Pittsburgh with my mother. It was the natural…

— Said Sayrafiezadeh

The interesting thing about history sometimes. is that you know these people existed, and you knew what jobs they did, but you don't know…

— Salman Rushdie

But I certainly know a lot of people that existed at that level and are always kind of pining for more, always thinking that…

— Thomas Haden Church

The Americans had not played a very prominent part in the war of 1914-1918, he (Adolf Hitler) thought, and moreover, had not made any…

— Albert Speer

“Mr Greenleaf was such a decent fellow himself, he took it for granted that everybody else in the world was decent, too. Tom had…

— Patricia Highsmith

“Still, whencesoever derived, the Egyptian people, as it existed in the flourishing time of Egyptian history, was beyond all question a mixed race, showing…

— George Rawlinson

I never could get on with representative individuals but people who existed on their own account and with whom it might therefore be possible…

— E. M. Forster

“People existed, however, who believed that closet racist were everywhere around them. They needed to believe this in order to have prupose and meaning…

— Dean Koontz

One particular aspect of Siddhartha’s revelation of the outside world has always struck me. Quite possibly he lived his first thirty years without any…

— Daniel Tammet