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
“blatant, intentional discrimination against women is far from being something merely to be read about in history books.” — Cordelia Fine 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
I find that the history books that we teach our kids with are not fully truthful, in my opinion. — Jesse Ventura Copy Share Image
Since the dawn of time every one will die, Let the history books note my death with loyalty at heart. — Wen Tianxiang Copy Share Image
Most Native Americans will say happy thanksgiving. Its just a matter of time before slavery is no longer part of childrens history… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The White House used to belong to the American people. At least that's what I learned from history books and from covering… — Helen Thomas Copy Share Image
“Val," said Mother, "goodness trumps greatness any day." "Not in the history books," said Valentine. "Then the wrong people are writing history,… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“What is the purpose of history? It seeds only hate. All the history books should be burnt, so that we are no… — Claire North Copy Share Image
The mountain of history books under which we all stand leans so heavily in the other direction-so tremblingly respectful of states and… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
“It might very well be that literally every word in the history books, even the things that one accepted without question, was… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Coolidge was a pragmatist. He didn't start out with a tax theory. But he observed over time that lower tax rates sometimes… — Amity Shlaes Copy Share Image
We used to root for the Indians against the cavalry, because we didn't think it was fair in the history books that… — Dick Gregory Copy Share Image
History is always written by the winners. When two cultures clash, the loser is obliterated, and the winner writes the history books-books… — Dan Brown 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
“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
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
“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
“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
“Raping a planet involves considerable expense. Enormous blasters and slicers and sluicers and refiners are required to reduce a world back almost… — Roger Zelazny 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
“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
“In the year Ten Million, according to Koradubian, there would be a tremendous house-cleaning. All records relating to the period between the… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Neville Chamberlain, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, honestly believed that he could reason with Adolf Hitler in good faith. Now,… — Captain Hank Bracker, "Seawater One Copy Share Image
“...he never so much as looks at me. He just sits there reading his old history books, that really gets me. I… — Sophie Divry Copy Share Image
“I see things in windows and I say to myself that I want them. I want them because I want to belong.… — Dave Matthes Copy Share Image
“In past ages, a war, almost by definition, was something that sooner or later came to an end, usually in unmistakable victory… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Some kings of England could not read or write; some died of illness which would keep us in bed only for a… — P.J. Sidey Copy Share Image
“His hand was a claw, sharp enough to open her. She would be like all the others—Ruta Badowski, in her broken dancing… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
I want to go down in the history books as one of the greatest female boxers of all time, and I think… — Katie Taylor Copy Share Image
“History books celebrate people who overcome great challenges, they do not celebrate critics.” — Ryan Chamberlin Copy Share Image
There are more valid facts and details in works of art than there are in history books. — Charlie Chaplin Copy Share Image
A promise, a bond, a joy, a love for the ages, for the history books.…But what was love but pain? — Melissa de la Cruz Copy Share Image
I read science books, chemistry books, history books. I read that stuff for fun. — Rick Harrison Copy Share Image
The problem is that my generation was pacified into believing that racism existed only in our history books. — Chance The Rapper Copy Share Image
Remember, it's the winners write the history books, and the losers get the leavings. — Joanne Harris Copy Share Image
“History books are a record of events which bring us to the world in which we live today.” — Ian Davies Copy Share Image
