Warnings about children being overscheduled, racing from one enriching activity to the next, first surfaced in the early 20th century. — Carl Honore Copy Share Image
For me, the Dennis Wilson story is a quintessential You Must Remember This story because it's one of these stories that people… — Karina Longworth Copy Share Image
For those who reject it, the Victorian experience is something to feel embarrassed about, to apologise for, to escape from, and never… — David Cannadine Copy Share Image
You're alive, Bianca. You still can't appreciate what it means, to be alive. It's better than being a vampire - better than… — Claudia Gray Copy Share Image
Think of what big governments have gotten up to in this century : not one, but two world wars, the gulag, the… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Okay, gimmi a kiss and I’ll go. (Simi) Not in front of the Hunter, Simi. (Acheron) The Simi wants a kiss, akri.… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
In the 21st century our tastes buds, our brain chemistry, our biochemistry, our hormones and our kitchens have been hijacked by the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The 19th century was the great period of engineering, thanks to the railways, thanks to lots of discoveries in metallurgy. — Joe Harris Copy Share Image
The wonderful 17th Century poet, Robert Herrick, wrote a poem entitled, 'To Live Merrily and to Trust to Good Verses.' Easy to… — Robert Pinsky Copy Share Image
As an innovation... the establishment of Free Schools was the boldest ever promulgated, since the commencement of the Christian era... Time has… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
I have waited for this opportunity for more than half a century, to repeat to you once again my vow of eternal… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
Nine English traditions out of ten date from the latter half of the nineteenth century. — C.P. Snow Copy Share Image
James Watt patented his steam engine on the eve of the American Revolution, consummating a relationship between coal and the new Promethean… — Jeremy Rifkin Copy Share Image
In many places it is literally not safe physically for youngsters to go to school. And in many schools, and its becoming… — Boyd K. Packer Copy Share Image
It was unknowable then, but so much of the progress that would define the 20th century, on both sides of the Atlantic,… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The major advances in speed of communication and ability to interact took place more than a century ago. The shift from sailing… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I would teach how science works as much as I would teach what science knows. I would assert (given that essentially, everyone… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
So, if I'm no cheerleader of sports, why write a chapter about it? Sports do have some positive impact on society. They… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
People have murdered each other, in massive wars and guerilla actions, for many centuries, and still murder each other in the present,… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
The great discovery of the nineteenth century, that we are of one blood with the lower animals, has created new ethical obligations… — William Ralph Inge Copy Share Image
The 20th century was a turning point; it freed and emancipated women, broke the back of segregation, and began the struggle to… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
Snow-capped Snowdon has been an iconic Welsh image for centuries. It is shocking to think that in just 14 years, snow on… — Lembit Opik Copy Share Image
Congratulations! If I may be so bold Only 40 years to go Before you're a century old Just saying — John Walter Bratton Copy Share Image
Over the centuries, we've moved on from Scripture to accumulate precepts of ethical, legal and moral philosophy. We've evolved a liberal consensus… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
