“There is a moment in the history of every beaten child when his mind parts with hopes of dignity — pushes off… — Sebastian Barry Copy Share Image
The Greeks really believed in history. They believed that the past had consequences and that you might be punished for the sins… — Christopher Bollen Copy Share Image
By the end of my BA, I was still not good in English, but I went on to enroll for an MA… — Ravish Kumar Copy Share Image
Throughout America's history, the start of adult life for women - whatever else it might have been destined to include - had… — Rebecca Traister Copy Share Image
I think of an intellectual as just being bookish, being interested in history books, utopian ideas, that kind of thing. — Richard Rorty Copy Share Image
If you get the basics right, you can freshen things up, you don't want to just regurgitate the past. But we gotta… — Philip Bailey Copy Share Image
“With you... I can understand why men have waged wars over women in history.” — Melissa Petreschock Copy Share Image
What's four years in our long American history? Remember when I asked that wheelchair-bound politician to "stand up." It turns me off… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
I don't write fantasy; I write historical novels about an imaginary place. — Raymond E. Feist Copy Share Image
Money is great, but history is something that you can never get rid of and act like it didn't happen. — Bernard Hopkins Copy Share Image
In the 21st century, we must teach and learn from our history and swear never to repeat it, but we cannot use… — Byron Donalds Copy Share Image
“The solution, Britain and its colonial leaders decided, was to import people who were loyal - but not necessarily inventive or talented… — Doug Saunders Copy Share Image
I'm allergic to over-promising. I'm allergic to exaggeration, because I've been in schools for a large part of my life, and I… — Larry Cuban Copy Share Image
Obviously, over the history of certainly the last 300 years, it was that men went out and worked, and women stayed home.… — Donna Strickland Copy Share Image
Often the lines that define the traditional European arrangement of fiction, non-fiction, history, etc. are not useful. These lines can distort the… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
Everything that civilisation has to offer is a product of human intelligence; we cannot predict what we might achieve when this intelligence… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
There is one thing about knowing history, and another in recreating it. — Octavia Spencer Copy Share Image
Anytime you have anyone who thinks he or she has God in their pocket, you have the potential for disaster, ... Throughout… — Charles Kimball Copy Share Image
The young earth-solution to reconciling the order of creation with natural history makes good exegetical and theological sense. Indeed, the overwhelming consensus… — William A. Dembski Copy Share Image
“In the history of ideas, it's repeatedly happened that an idea, developed in one area for one purpose, finds an unexpected application… — Patrick Grim Copy Share Image
I was a pretty delinquent little kid. My folks and I didn't get along, so I basically moved out... put myself through… — Al Jourgensen Copy Share Image
“The schools we go to are reflections of the society that created them. Nobody is going to give you the education you… — Assata Shakur Copy Share Image
For 217 years, the whole history of the country has been based on conspiracies, coups, assassinations. We conspire to destroy it, never… — Jovenel Moise Copy Share Image
I'm just a normal guy and blue-collar historian, and people keep tuning in. — Rick Harrison Copy Share Image
“History looks queer when you're standing close to it, watching where it is coming from and how it's being made.” — Janet Flanner Copy Share Image
This time all the historical details and things were right. But I'd written it again in third person, and people found it… — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
Today is a big day in TV history. On this day forty-one years ago, the Beverly Hillbillies aired for the first time… — David Letterman Copy Share Image
Inaugurals conventionally start with a history lesson and finish with a prayer. — Jonathan Raban Copy Share Image
“In these random impressions, and with no desire to be other than random, I indifferently narrate my factless autobiography, my lifeless history.… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
The history of capitalism has been so totally re-written that many people in the rich world do not perceive the historical double… — Ha-Joon Chang Copy Share Image
If I had to write down the most important people in the history of this planet, No.1 would be (abolitionist) John Brown.… — Dick Gregory Copy Share Image
I don't think history is stupid.History ultimately rectifies a lot of these things. If you had to ask me what I think… — Lance Armstrong Copy Share Image
I'm sure that was the right step, even though, formally speaking, it may seem disadvantageous for a president to resign. But, looking… — Eduard Shevardnadze Copy Share Image
