History is fond of her grandchildren, for it offers them the marrow of the bones, which the previous generation had hurt its… — Nikolay Chernyshevsky Copy Share Image
I like historical fiction. I fell in love with New Orleans the first time I visited it. And I wanted to place… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
Mary bring out your umbrella - The sun shines down on this fine, fine day But the ashes raining down forever Are… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
Great men are usually the products of their times and one of the men developed by these times takes rank with the… — John Moody Copy Share Image
Hillary Clinton wants to run on the historic nature of her candidacy. I will force her to run on accountability for the… — Carly Fiorina Copy Share Image
This country-right-or-wrong business is getting a little out-of-date.. History is moving pretty quickly these days and the heroes and villains keep on… — Ian Fleming Copy Share Image
“If I considered the Partition an archeological site, and the many experiences of those who witnessed it as the site’s structural sedimentation,… — Aanchal Malhotra Copy Share Image
Silences enter the process of historical production at four crucial moments: the moment of fact creation (the making of sources); the moment… — Michel-Rolph Trouillot Copy Share Image
After such knowledge, what forgiveness? Think now History has many cunning passages, contrived corridors And issues, deceives with whispering ambitions Guides us… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
The history of energy use is a sequence of transitions to sources that are cheaper, cleaner, and more flexible. — Vaclav Smil Copy Share Image
We should not be flying a flag of a group who wants to erase our history and bring mass destruction to our… — Marjorie Taylor Greene Copy Share Image
After such knowledge, what forgiveness? Think now History has many cunning passages, contrived corridors And issues. — TS Eliot Copy Share Image
Those Victorians: endlessly fascinating, broad in their learning, heroic in their achievements, in parts completely mad. — Simon Heffer Copy Share Image
The Bible-banned, burned, beloved-is more widely read and more frequently attacked than any other book in history. — Charles Colson Copy Share Image
History repeats itself. That's one of the things wrong with history. — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
Books should be cherished, like children, books are for the next generation, like children, like history. — Edna Ferber Copy Share Image
There are people who are trying to write history for the general reader who can be quite tedious. That said, I do… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
History can be helpful in making sense of the world we live in. It can also be fascinating, even fun. — Margaret MacMillan Copy Share Image
“Some people like the Jews, and some do not. But no thoughtful man can deny the fact that they are, beyond any… — Ellen Brazer Copy Share Image
“In any case, Cide Hamete Benengeli was a very careful historian, and very accurate in all things, as can be clearly seen… — Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Copy Share Image
Maybe it is not just social history - the belt buckles and soup ladles - that connects us to the past, but… — Bettany Hughes Copy Share Image
“Very occasionally, a simplified form of communion and of adult baptism for new members of the church would be enacted but no… — Adam Nicolson Copy Share Image
Religion is the worst enemy of mankind. No single war in the history of humanity has killed as many people as religion… — Bill Murray Copy Share Image
A helluva athlete, the best ever to play his position in the history of the game. — Al Davis Copy Share Image
As a Cherokee, I can attest to the fact that Native Americans have been on the losing side of history. Our rights… — Markwayne Mullin Copy Share Image
Every muscular rigidity contains the history and the meaning of its origin. — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
I am in the interesting position of being sometimes skimmed by the critics and called literature and sometimes called historical fiction. — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
I've seen my kids' work at school, and I think they're better than when I was young, 'cause I was brainwashed into… — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
However, we all share the firm belief in the triumph of humanist and progressive values that mankind has achieved during its long… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To trace the history of a river . . . is to trace the history of the soul, the history of the… — Gretel Ehrlich Copy Share Image
“Mafia landmarks are found everywhere in beautiful Sicily, an unfortunate byproduct of the island’s tragic history. By mapping theses strange sites and… — Carl Russo Copy Share Image
Truth: We are the present. We are now. We are the razor's edge of history. The future flies at us and from… — N.D. Wilson Copy Share Image
“The dead were just the dead, neither awful nor remarkable. History separated out these individuals and preserved their names where others were… — Rosie Thomas Copy Share Image
For me, art history is like a feather bed - you fall into it and it catches you. — David Salle Copy Share Image
The subject matter is very tricky. It's about the Munich massacre and what Mossad did afterwards with the assassination squads. I think… — Daniel Craig Copy Share Image
I feel like D.C. is one of the places in America that really holds on to history. The monuments inspire me, especially… — Skylar Grey Copy Share Image
