Whites were the winners, blacks were the losers, we wrote the history books, and they didn't feature. — Phillip Noyce 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
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
“We do what we must to earn our place in the community, but we live for the hours at home. For each… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
During the Depression, or back when we were fighting Hitler, people didn't have time to sue a company if the coffee was… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
When real substantive change happens it's the people who watch your show, they're the ones that make it happen. It's people whose… — Tom Morello Copy Share Image
The white man made the mistake of letting me read his history books. He made the mistake of teaching me that Patrick… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
But the participants [in war] never forgot the details of their experience, and like the Wandering Jew, they were condemned to remain… — James Lee Burke Copy Share Image
But nothing is solid and permanent. Our lives are raised on the shakiest foundations. You don't need to read history books to… — Ron Rash Copy Share Image
The problem is there are people in this country - maybe 10%, I don't know what the number, maybe 20% on a… — Chris Matthews Copy Share Image
“For me to read a book is still And always will be quite a thrill. For me to read a book is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Writing fiction is very different to writing non-fiction. I love writing novels, but on history books, like my biographies of Stalin or… — Simon Sebag Montefiore Copy Share Image
“We never learn anything, never in the world, and in spite of all the history books written. They’re just the way we… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
Anyone can tell you that how you're raised as a child has a great deal to do with how you behave as… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
“I gave Wang a copy of Joseph Campbell’s great book The Hero with a Thousand Faces, because he is a classic hero… — Ray Dalio 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
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
“The bookcase was filled with computer games, history books, and sci-fi novels in about equal proportions. Odd reading choices, maybe, but I… — Mike Mullin Copy Share Image
I had these fashion history books that I really enjoyed looking at. I liked costumes and used to wear them to school… — Robert Eggers Copy Share Image
Being president means leaving one's name in the history book of which few men are authors. It is my fortune to be… — Grover Cleveland Copy Share Image
On this International Day for the Abolition of Slavery let us reaffirm the inherent dignity of all men, women and children. And… — Ban Ki-moon Copy Share Image
I want to be a champion. I want to be a long-reigning featherweight champion. I want to be known in the history… — Max Holloway Copy Share Image
“I didn’t know whether these pictures would end up in history books or be used against me in a court hearing, but… — Ethan Chatagnier Copy Share Image
Why would I talk about the past when I got a bright future? What kind of money is the past gonna make… — Riff Raff Copy Share Image
“Boys forget what their country means by just reading 'The Land of the Free' in history books. Then they get to be… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
On the announcement that signs of extra terrestrial life were found in a meteorite, August 6, 1996 A hundred years from now… — Richard E. Berendzen Copy Share Image
I'd always thought leadership was a CEO or president or person in a position of power. And honestly, to me, that meant… — Julie Foudy Copy Share Image
Herman Cain was unaware that China is a nuclear power. And I said to myself, 'Hey, Herman, how about making an unwanted… — David Letterman Copy Share Image
We talk about these legendary fighters, talk about how they had hundred-something fights, hundred-something victories... but when you look at the history… — Floyd Mayweather, Jr Copy Share Image
“There was nothing special about humans. Nobody, least of all humans themselves, had any inkling that their descendants would one day walk… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
We all had to learn Southern accents. It wasn't a big research show. With the 'Wounded Knee' project, I locked myself in… — Anna Paquin 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
Only when the war propaganda of the victors is entered into the history books of the vanquished, (and this is also believed… — Walter Lippman 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
“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
He [Michael Jackson] would choose specific moments. They were art history books that I prefer. They were paintings that he prefers. It's… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
A good writer preserves an air of freedom in his prose, so that the reader won't know how a story will end… — Thornton Wilder 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
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
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