The unexpressed aim of every politician is to influence events that history books will record his name - and spell it right. — Judy LaMarsh Copy Share Image
“The war that killed my grandfather and great-uncles and thousands of other blacks is only a footnote in our history books.” — Cristina García Copy Share Image
“We're all just moments and most of us don't matter. We study less than one percent of all humanity in our history… — Emily Lloyd-Jones Copy Share Image
When I was a little boy in Worcestershire reading history books I never thought I should have to interfere between a king… — Stanley Baldwin Copy Share Image
I much prefer writing fiction. History books, for me, are very hard work, very serious. — Simon Sebag Montefiore Copy Share Image
When I was a teenager, I read the bible cover-to-cover, and I found the Old Testament, it's a pretty bloody history book. — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share Image
Whites were the winners, blacks were the losers, we wrote the history books, and they didn't feature. — Phillip Noyce Copy Share Image
“History books are filled with lies. Whoever wins the war tells the story.” — Stephanie Perkins Copy Share Image
“The invariable question, asked only half-mockingly of reporters by editors at the Post (and then up the hierarchical line of editors) was… — Carl Bernstein Copy Share Image
Unless we change our ways and our direction, our greatness as a nation will soon be a footnote in the history books,… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
I am delighted to be joining Paris Saint-Germain, a club where so many Brazilians have played and helped write the club's history.… — Marquinhos Copy Share Image
It's in the history books, the Holocaust. It's just a phrase. And the truth is it happened yesterday. It happened to my… — Gene Simmons Copy Share Image
When kids don't learn about their own heritage in school, they just don't care about school... But you won't see it in… — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
As you grow older and young people come up to you with their history books, you realize that some of the things… — Jackie Joyner-Kersee Copy Share Image
When you realize that your history books and your science books and your literature books are not the result of experts sitting… — Diane Ravitch Copy Share Image
As a historian, I love every little detail, but whole long passages about wood paneling and journeys on horseback and every stop… — Deborah Harkness Copy Share Image
I am not one to generalize, but cartoonists, as a group, exhibit a level of social sophistication generally associated with pie fights.… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
“THE PILGRIM MOTHERS AND FATHERS Provincetown’s first settlers were, in fact, the Pilgrims, who sailed the Mayflower into Provincetown Harbor in 1620.… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
“Wasn't modernism's greatest coup to destroy the notion of progression? And yet it still comes back in history books, in dialectical materialism,… — Chris Kraus Copy Share Image
“Willow sees her before any of the others. A walking skeleton, the victim of some terrible wasting disease, like something out of… — Julia Hoban Copy Share Image
“The 'ulama', by tightly controlling what went into the history books, were able to propagate an understanding of their own dazzlingly rich… — Tom Holland Copy Share Image
“History books call it the Underworld. Or even hell. But I know it’s neither. It is really called the Everneath, and it’s… — Brodi Ashton Copy Share Image
According to energy medicine, we are all living history books. Our bodies contain our histories- every chapter, line and verse of every… — Caroline Myss Copy Share Image
“People like these have done more to relieve human misery than any prophet with a manifesto ever will. They number in the… — Kage Baker Copy Share Image
“Through all the years of considered opinion and thoughtful contribution that offers to explain the human condition, we are yet to see… — Steve Carlsson Copy Share Image
“Don't exist. Live. Get out, explore. Thrive. Challenge authority. Challenge yourself. Evolve. Change forever. Become who you say you always will. Keep… — Brian Krans Copy Share Image
“Don't exist. Live. Get out, explore. Thrive. Challenge authority. Challenge yourself. Evolve. Change forever. Become who you say you always will. Keep… — Brian Krans Copy Share Image
“That was my story. Or at least the way I remember it. What happened to those characters and the places that had… — María Dueñas Copy Share Image
“★ BOOK OF THE WEEK ★ SWITCHED FORTUNES John Rabe £7.99 Austin Macauley Making a change from the manuals and the marque… — John Rabe Copy Share Image
“We tend to hear much more about the splendors returned than the ships that brought them or the shipwrights. It has always… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“In history, in a movie, in a book, you can always tell who the heroes are; they're the ones rushing into a… — Kathe Koja Copy Share Image
“The history books say that life before the Revolution was completely different from what it is now. There was the most terrible… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Look for us in history books and you’ll find us in the margins. Look for us in legends, and you might just… — Scott Lynch Copy Share Image
I knew always that Holland gave away the most Jews of all the countries. We are not the heroes that are in… — Carice van Houten Copy Share Image
Be lord of a day, through wisdom and justice, and you can put up your history books. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“...in my wildest, most indulgent dreams, we only hear about sexual assault & abuse in history books.” — Lisa Factora-Borchers Copy Share Image
History is written by winners, so most history books are about people who win. — Harold S. Kushner Copy Share Image
I love to read history books, which is where I get my ideas. I also read historical romance for pleasure. — Virginia Henley Copy Share Image
Life is a wonderful thing to talk about, or to read about in history books - but it is terrible when one… — Jean Anouilh Copy Share Image
You can't rewrite the history books; you can't eliminate the impact of my work and my characters. — Rob Liefeld Copy Share Image
