My grandfather was a history teacher, one reason the subject has been an integral part of my life. — Sudha Murty Copy Share Image
I probably use more grays than any other artist in the history of art. — Sean Scully Copy Share Image
It is well indeed for out land that we of this generation have learned to think nationally. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I read daft history books. Sometimes the books I read are a bit crackers or strange. — Mark E. Smith Copy Share Image
Don't try and Be a great man, just be a man, and let history make it's own judgements — Young Siddiq Prince Copy Share Image
The value of history. ..is that it teaches us what man has done and thus what man is. — Robin G. Collingwood Copy Share Image
“Let us reject this decree. In matters of conscience the majority has no power."--Merle d'Aubigne, History of the Reformation, b. 13, ch. 5.” — Ellen White Copy Share Image
Caesar had his Brutus, Charles the First his Cromwell; and George the Third — ['Treason!' cried the Speaker] — may profit by… — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
“The past is our always-available counterculture, and it's a rich one. Every minute you spend attending to something not-immediately-present, you are helping… — Alan Jacobs Copy Share Image
“You are the culmination of all that ever was. You are the highest point of the vast pyramid of history and of… — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
For the average person, all problems date to World War II; for the more informed, to World War I; for the genuine… — Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn Copy Share Image
We've talked and written about the World War so much that it has almost been purged off. The bitterness is gone. The… — Gulzar Copy Share Image
I mean, every novel's a historical novel anyway. But calling something a historical novel seems to put mittens on it, right? It… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
In the ultimate analysis, all of us would have served Pakistan better if history and our future generations judge us positively. — Ashfaq Parvez Kayani Copy Share Image
“Naskar is when Naskar is not (Sonnet 2550) Ask the dust of my footsteps on sands, where no history sleeps, the truth… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Welcome to Barrayar, son. Here you go: have a world of wealth and poverty, wrenching change and rooted history. Have a birth;… — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
CHAPTER 8 I slept in my own bed that night. You could say.. I slept.. I dreamed about being like them. How… — Jade Copy Share Image
“Absolute knowledge is an all-inclusive knowledge. If it is to be absolute, it cannot leave anything outside itself, not even error. It… — Julián Marías Copy Share Image
We are all hostages, and we are all terrorists. This circuit has replaced that other one of masters and slaves, the dominating… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
We know of no spectacle more ridiculous—or more contemptible—than that of the religious reactionaries who dare to re-write the history of our… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Populism is the simple premise that markets need to be restrained by society and by a democratic political system. We are not… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
No history is mute. No matter how much they own it, break it, and lie about it, human history refuses to shut… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
History is a Pandora's box. We've opened it now, we can't pretend stuff doesn't exist. — Paterson Joseph Copy Share Image
The fastest manned vehicle in history was Apollo 10. It reached 25,000 mph. — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
“We scarcely dare to trust the truth of history, in some of its traits of human nature,” said Ellena.” — Ann Radcliffe Copy Share Image
In terms of the history of a far reaching movement, 20 years is not that long. — Aung San Suu Kyi Copy Share Image
My dear Smollett ... disgraces his talent by writing those stupid romances called history. — Mary Wortley Montagu Copy Share Image
You must always know the past, for there is no real Was, there is only Is. — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“Bebek berjalan beramai-ramai, tetapi burung elang terbang sendirian.” — Cindy Adams Copy Share Image
“America's civilization perturbs the trajectories of all other civilizations just by existing.” — Walter A. McDougall Copy Share Image
“History is not the past – it is the method we have evolved of organising our ignorance of the past” — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
The forms of art reflect the history of man more truthfully than do documents themselves. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
History has a point of view; it cannot be all things to all people. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image