I've always been interested in history, but they never taught Negro history in the public schools...I don't see how a history of… — Jacob Lawrence Copy Share Image
America has become amnesiac, a country in which forms of historical, political, and moral forgetting are not only willfully practiced but celebrated. — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
I don't mean to burst anyone's bubble, but there is no scriptural or historical basis for December 25th actually being the day… — Charity Sunshine Tillemann-Dick Copy Share Image
We must strengthen the United Nations as a first step toward a World Government, patterned after our Own Government with a legislature,… — Walter Cronkite Copy Share Image
Proficiency in art is a contract with your self and the empowerment of your self. Not all of us demand or even… — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
I do photograph things for people to look at 100 years from now. But we're such a mediated society that things become… — Catherine Opie Copy Share Image
It is important to realize that whatever we do or design has iconographic references, it comes from somewhere; any form is always… — Ettore Sottsass Copy Share Image
Not infrequently, Southern food now unlocks the rusty gates of race and class, age and sex. On such occasions, a place at… — John Egerton Copy Share Image
To accept the story of the Arab destruction of the library of Alexandria, one must explain how it is that so dramatic… — Bernard Lewis Copy Share Image
The AMA puts the lives and well being of the American citizens well below it's own special interest...It deserves to be ignored,… — Edward Kennedy Copy Share Image
History--the product, not the raw material--is a bottle with a label. For many years now, the emphasis of historical discussion has been… — Neal Ascherson Copy Share Image
A mirror does not develop because an historical pageant passes in front of it. It only develops when it gets a fresh… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
In writing my historical novels, I have to rely upon my imagination to a great extent. I think of it as 'filling… — Sharon Kay Penman Copy Share Image
I sometimes subscribe to the belief that all historical events occur simultaneously, like a dream in the mind of God. Perhaps it… — James Lee Burke Copy Share Image
Bombing is not especially inhumane. War itself is inhumane and the bombing plane, which is used to paralyse industry and transport, is… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I taught English and history, so my education for that really helped prepare me for writing historical fiction. — Candace Camp Copy Share Image
History is opaque. You see what comes out, not the script that produces events, [...] The generator of historical events is different… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Fortifications, artillery, foreign aid - will be of no value, unless the ordinary soldier knows that it is HE guarding his country — Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim Copy Share Image
Though my books are written from a historical perspective, I have goon so far back that I am in the realm of… — Jean M. Auel Copy Share Image
Markets work best when there's lots of information available and a historical track record to go on; they excel at predicting things… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
I'd gone to Wellesley College, an amazing women's college where the students were encouraged to follow our dreams. However, after I graduated… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
For me archaeology is not a source of illustrations for written texts, but an independent source of historical information, with no less… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's never pleasant to have one's unquestioning beliefs put in their historical context, as I know from experience, I can assure you. — Kingsley Amis Copy Share Image
The United Nations is the greatest fraud in history. Its purpose is to destroy the United States. — John E. Rankin Copy Share Image
The blurring of fact and fiction has great commercial potential, which is bound to be corrupting in historical terms. — Antony Beevor Copy Share Image
