So many of the wars in history, thousands and thousands of them for the past five, six, seven thousand years, have been… — Wayne Teasdale Copy Share Image
I think that often in the United States we're very blind to the ways that history lives in the present. — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
“Because bread was so important, the laws governing its purity were strict and the punishment severe. A baker who cheated his customers… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
“Perhaps we are, somewhere, the deep impulse which generates semiosis, And yet we recognize ourselves only as semiosis in progress, signifying systems… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
If certain Jewish communities had distinctive qualities, they were due to history, not biology. — Shlomo Sand Copy Share Image
I'm not looking to write the great American novel, win a Pulitzer or teach history. I write to entertain my readers. — Dorothy Garlock Copy Share Image
“The greatest changes in history have come because people were able to shake off what others told them to do.” — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
As the British Constitution is the most subtle organism which has proceeded from progressive history, so the American Constitution is the most… — William E. Gladstone Copy Share Image
History has its truth, and so has legend. Legendary truth is of another nature than historical truth. Legendary truth is invention whose… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The advantage of the Genesis is that it's a rock-solid camera, made by a company with an enormous history and a huge… — Dean Devlin Copy Share Image
I am not a representative of anything. When art historians or critics or the public put somebody in a drawer like this,… — Georg Baselitz Copy Share Image
I want to become a student. I want to read Chinese history and go on a dig. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We discussed the history of postwar Japan and how Japan had missed an opportunity to build a more functional democracy because of… — Joichi Ito Copy Share Image
“History and experience tell us that moral progress comes not in comfortable and complacent times, but out of trial and confusion.” Gerald… — Max Allan Collins Copy Share Image
I have a long history in fighting for civil rights. I understand that many people in the African-American community may not understand… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
“An important book for understanding the history of our economic boom & bust cycles. It's an eye-opening account of how we are… — Thom Hartmann Copy Share Image
“Many of today's most obstreperous critics of Christianity know nothing more of Christendom's two millennia than a few childish images of bloodthirsty… — David Bentley Hart Copy Share Image
In the twelfth century the Basque fishermen of Biarritz used to hunt whales with deadly efficiency. When the whales sensibly moved away,… — Clive James Copy Share Image
For most of the history of the American empire, government has been a tool for preserving and furthering the power and might… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
“Wilier races had interbred with human race during immemorial. Therefore no need to look for them on anywhere but in ourselves.” — Toba Beta [Betelgeuse Incident Copy Share Image
The artists must be sacrificed to their art. Like the bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Too many writers are trying to write with too shallow an education. Whether they go to college or not is immaterial...a good… — James Kisner Copy Share Image
There has never been a book like this. At once a poetics of place, a work of deep history, a bildungsroman, and… — Melissa Holbrook Pierson Copy Share Image
When the drama of history is over, Jesus Christ will stand alone on the stage. All the great figures of history ...… — Helmut Thielicke Copy Share Image
