“It’s not in the history books because if people knew the truth they wouldn’t be able to go about their day to… — M.D. Bowden Copy Share Image
Many people have told me that once they learn of Madam Walker's accomplishments they are surprised, even embarrassed, that they have never… — A'Lelia Bundles Copy Share Image
I do lament how many investors focus on all the short-term sugar buzz of some marginal improvement in something - nothing history… — Steve Jurvetson Copy Share Image
The fact is that we wouldn't have found out about Manzanar except in our story-telling because it was really never told in… — Tamlyn Tomita Copy Share Image
When I was growing up reading history books as a young student, it seemed all wars had a winner. Yet in today's… — Antonio Guterres Copy Share Image
You read about me in history books, but now I am dedicated to spreading the truth about preserving the dignity of all… — Norma McCorvey Copy Share Image
Pick up any history book, and I suggest you begin with studying the 20th century, and you will find that a large… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“These secrets came down my own ornately curved and twisting family line. For family stories are never as direct as history books,… — Liz Rosenberg 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
“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
“You see, boys forget what their country means by just reading The Land of the Free in history books. Then they get… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It’s like saying beauty is in the eye of the beholder: what appears to be beautiful today may not be judged beautiful… — Peter M. Brant Copy Share Image
It's funny, when you look back in history books or American cookery books, one of the reasons that the quinces and cranberries… — Alton Brown Copy Share Image
Revolutions existed in history, books were written about them, and lectures given: they were complicated phenomena, scientific, remote. While here, the riot… — Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia Copy Share Image
I never think of the word legacy. It doesn't mean anything. You do the right thing, in my judgment, and things will… — Raymond Kelly Copy Share Image
“I wonder how difficult it would be to just make a list of all the top blood purists and kill them. They'd… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
I'm an expert at killing time on planes now. I do a lot of reading. My secret sort of nerdy side is… — Jeremy Irvine Copy Share Image
I came back to this idea of telling the stories of women who aren't in all of the history books. Their names… — Anita Sarkeesian Copy Share Image
I'm always talking about how representation is such an important thing - it's not just a request, it's a requirement - it… — Bianca Belair Copy Share Image
White America has seen to it that Black history has been suppressed in schools and in American history books. The bravery of… — Huey Newton Copy Share Image
But if we come back, if German men come back, if British men come back, and Japs, and French, and all the… — J. D. Salinger Copy Share Image
The rabbit's not like us. It has no history books, no photographs, no knowledge of sorrow or regret. I mean, I'm sorry,… — Donnie Darko Copy Share Image
One of the most dangerous errors is that civilization is automatically bound to increase and spread. The lesson of history is the… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
If you will protest courageously, and yet with dignity and Christian love, when the history books are written in future generations, the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Bible is not a book like any other. It makes a claim that God spoke and speaks through its message. It… — Darrell Bock Copy Share Image
There were others, women with stories that were told in a quieter voice: women who hid Jewish children in their homes, putting… — Megan Chance Copy Share Image
“We’ve already got gays in the military. We always have had. World War Two, the Western Allies had fourteen million men in… — Lee Child Copy Share Image
“Tremble had a secret. Underneath his dreary exterior, he was quite interesting. When his penchant for investigating the area's past was indulged,… — Christopher Fowler Copy Share Image
My dark skin might not be satisfying for your preference, but it's the skin that my ancestors wore when they were working… — Brester Mishoe Copy Share Image
To be honest, the core reason why I became an actor was that I didn't want to go to school. That's where… — Ranbir Kapoor Copy Share Image
“There’s never been a noble war except in the history books and propaganda movies. It’s a bloody, dirty, cruel, costly mistake in… — Harold G. Moore Copy Share Image
As the great philosopher George Santayana would have said, 'those who cannot remember the past . . . should simply read Jan… — Mo Rocca Copy Share Image
Endnotes, often confused with footnotes that live at the bottom of a page, is that lump of text at the end of… — Mary Pilon Copy Share Image
