“[T]he greater the sense of awe with which a text was regarded, the more complete might be the amnesia as to the… — Tom Holland Copy Share Image
“Kehormatan dapat diperoleh baik di luar maupun di dalam dinding tembok PBB,” — Cindy Adams Copy Share Image
I'm someone who can create critiques of individuals based on their economic history. That's one way I look at people in terms… — Ira Sachs Copy Share Image
Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“Most histories are written by the winners of conflicts, but those written by the losers—if they survive—are often more interesting.” — Brian Herbert Copy Share Image
“He’d seen for the first time how easily one might neglect those one loved by chasing the big story, the big lie… — Alex Christofi Copy Share Image
Every February, we reflect on and honor the achievements, struggles, and icons that comprise Black history. As a proud, Black man running… — Jaime Harrison Copy Share Image
America is a melting pot for all different groups of people, historically. And it's rare that the story of all of these… — Nas Copy Share Image
Floyd Paterson? Boy, he's the complete opposite to me. He no way like me. They go down in history for just being… — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
“Lord Bolingbroke, who was an eighteenth-century political philosopher, called history “philosophy taught with examples.” — David McCullough Copy Share Image
As nations we should also commit afresh to righting past wrongs. In Australia we began this recently with the first Australians -… — Kevin Rudd Copy Share Image
A woman's biography - with about eight famous historical exceptions - so often turns out to be the story of a man… — Catherine Drinker Bowen Copy Share Image
I think history has shown that the worst way to [try to] bring people over and actually change public opinion is by… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
The idea of a judgment of history is secularism's vain, meaningless, hopeless, pathetic attempt to devise a substitute for what the great… — Robert P. George Copy Share Image
It's possible to be satisfied with a day's work or a cake, but a life... what is a life but a history… — Kevin McCloud Copy Share Image
“history is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging.” — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
When the real history of mankind is fully disclosed, will it feature the echoes of gunfire or the shaping sound of lullabies?… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
It's extraordinary how self-obsessed human beings are. The things that people always go on about is, 'tell us about us', 'tell us… — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
“All of history has pointed its refining focus to your life this moment.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
“We are all in the era that will be remembered by historians as the 'Silent Corporate Government War On Humanity” — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
“One of its (civilisations) most powerful weapons has always been 'barbarity': 'we' know that 'we' are civilised by contrasting ourselves with those… — Mary Beard Copy Share Image
I feel very honoured to be joining the Ferrari family and becoming a part of the most prestigious team in the history… — Jean-Eric Vergne Copy Share Image
History was made the day Chubby Checker went on 'Bandstand' with 'The Twist.' — Chubby Checker Copy Share Image
We've actually named asteroids for other famous women in history, like Rosa Parks, Harriet Tubman, and Sojourner Truth. But it's really this… — Carrie Nugent Copy Share Image
There have always been readers throughout history who have been drawn to villains. — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
If you look at slavery across all human history, and you sort of strip away the packaging, whether it's racialized or religious-based,… — Kevin Bales Copy Share Image
The countless number of influential figures in American history who are of Caribbean heritage indicates the need to set aside a designated… — Eliot Engel Copy Share Image
Enshrined in a language is the whole of a community's history and a large part of its cultural identity. The world is… — David Crystal Copy Share Image
Most of the time, teachers who talk about the Middle East do not know the history, culture or present context of the… — Lawrence Davidson Copy Share Image
Throughout the entire course of history, warfare is always changing. — Andre Beaufre Copy Share Image
I don't think neurobiology is going to replace aesthetics or art history. It's a parallel discipline that adds a new dimension. I… — Eric Kandel Copy Share Image
The art of beautiful motion is far and away the oldest. Before man learned how to use any instruments at all, he… — Gerard van der Leeuw Copy Share Image
We must work together, across nations and sectors. Only then will we consign the hideous crime of slavery to the history books. — Penny Mordaunt Copy Share Image
But the severe rules of discipline which the prudence of the bishops had instituted were relaxed by the same prudence in favour… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“Disaster is rarely as pervasive as it seems from recorded accounts. The fact of being on the record makes it appear continuous… — Barbara W. Tuchman Copy Share Image
The Civil War was fought in 10,000 places, from Valverde, New Mexico, and Tullahoma, Tennessee, to St. Albans, Vermont, and Fernandina on… — Bruce Catton Copy Share Image
I was born with this wanderlust to move, constantly, as far as I could. It's more than I have a very hard… — Steven Rinella Copy Share Image
“Laughing,I poked him for his embarrassingly accurate imitation of my southern accent. He continued in my voice, "Then one day my boyfriend… — Jennifer Echols Copy Share Image