I knew that a historian (or a journalist, or anyone telling a story) was forced to choose, out of an infinite number… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
“There is no nation in the history that has not experienced bloodshed and murdering. We all have committed the same mistakes in… — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
There's a bunch of cities I'm not crazy about, but I love Chicago. I love the musical history - the mid-'90s indie… — James Ransone Copy Share Image
In these momentous hours of our history we call on every Hungarian worker who is led by devotion to the people and… — Janos Kadar Copy Share Image
The greatest moments of Native History lie ahead of us if a great spiritual renewal and wakening should take place. The Native… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
The history of food has never had a better biographer. Required reading for anyone who eats. — Dan Barber Copy Share Image
I'm of the glamorous ladies At whose beckoning history shook. But you are a man, and see only my pan, So I… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
Sometimes you need to be alone in order to reflect on life. Take time out to take care of yourself. You deserve… — Robert Tew Copy Share Image
The same president who has insisted that core moralism drives him has brought America to its lowest moral standing in history. — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
“If writers only dared to dare, a Suetonius or a Tacitus of the Novel could exist, for the Novel is essentially the… — Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly Copy Share Image
All migrants leave their pasts behind, although some try to pack it into bundles and boxes-but on the journey something seeps out… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
My feeling is that it's a misreading of history to say that, as the Reagan supporters do, that Reagan won the Cold… — Robert Dallek Copy Share Image
“As Jewish historian Yuri Slezkine noted, modernity has turned us all into Jews. ("The Jewish Century," 2004.) Modernism is the dysfunction that… — Henry Makow Copy Share Image
History is moving pretty quickly these days, and the heroes and villains keep on changing parts. — Ian Fleming Copy Share Image
In Israel's short history, army commanders and the heads of the intelligence agencies have often advocated the use of force and in… — Ronen Bergman Copy Share Image
You can't anticipate history. It's only when you look back you see what the Romans did, and what various other empires did,… — Roma Tearne Copy Share Image
“Because history is the soap opera that hurts, the kabuki with real knives.” — Kim Stanley Robinson Copy Share Image
“Eating connects us to our histories as much as it connects our souls to our bodies, our bodies to the earth.” — Evan D.G. Fraser Copy Share Image
“In my card catalogue, the Dewey Decimal System had placed him firmly under Ancient History.” — S.E. Harmon Copy Share Image
Well, I'm not sure, but of one thing I am certain: History judges one differently than contemporary observers, and so I think… — David Dinkins Copy Share Image
My work since the late '80s specifically questioned what was presented as the 'natural' order of things in the history of post-war-N.Y.… — Deborah Kass Copy Share Image
“If there’s one thing that stands out above all others in my research, it’s that history doesn’t sit still. Doesn’t sit silent.… — Josh Malerman Copy Share Image
Every frame of a Coen brothers movie is filled with history and meaning, and the deeper you go, the deeper you get.… — Oscar Isaac Copy Share Image
“After his failed political career, Lincoln often pondered the question of the purpose of the meaning of life. In 1850 [ten years… — Ronald C White Copy Share Image
