As an author of narrative history, I read a lot of history books. — Nathaniel Philbrick 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
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
I read science books, chemistry books, history books. I read that stuff for fun. — Rick Harrison 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
When I was in school, all our history books were American, so we learned American history, not Canadian history. — Dave Foley 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
Remember, it's the winners write the history books, and the losers get the leavings. — Joanne Harris Copy Share Image
“All of the ills of mankind, all of the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books ...have arisen merely from a lack… — Molière Copy Share Image
We all draw inspiration from women whose names make the headlines and whose stories are in the history books, but often our… — A'Lelia Bundles Copy Share Image
If you're starting to lose your faith in the general intelligence of the American populous, there's nothing like them mistaking pop culture… — Ben Feldman Copy Share Image
“The people who live happily ever after - they don't appear in the history books. They just fade away. I reckon that's… — Sharyn McCrumb Copy Share Image
It was, according to the history books, the fastest coronation since Bubric the Saxon crowned himself with a very pointy crown on… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
As long as there are history books, Neil Armstrong will be included in them, remembered for taking humankind's first small step on… — Charles Bolden Copy Share Image
The progress of science is much more muddled than is depicted in most history books. This is especially true of theoretical physics,… — David Gross Copy Share Image
Think of Florence, Paris, London, New York. Nobody visiting them for the first time is a stranger because he's already visited them… — Alasdair Gray Copy Share Image
“here’s the thing about being a hero: Only a few ever make it into the history books. Every day, people do heroic… — Yasmine Galenorn Copy Share Image
“There are three kind of history. The first is what really happened and that is forever lost. The second is what most… — Michael Gruber Copy Share Image
I suppose I ought to think up some dramatic, quotable phrase for Public Information and the history books, but I'm damned if… — David Weber Copy Share Image
War never accomplishes anything. It's never going to look good in the history books. People are never going to look back and… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
Fortunately, I come from an activist mother, so I didn't have to rely on the history books. The history books teach us… — Jurnee Smollett Copy Share Image
As a young man, I was very interested in how people lived in earlier times; how they got from place to place,… — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
It became a question of taste. I have a certain taste in art history. And that - I had a huge library… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
Every day people are born and people die. Human beings come into this world and leave it - most without their names… — Ash Sweeney 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
“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
“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
“You're all Helen talks about. She's been reading Welsh history books and plaguing the family with accounts of Owain Glynd and something… — Lisa Kleypas 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
“★ 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
“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
