The disadvantage of men not knowing the past is that they do not know the present. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
When you pick up an inch of the present to move it, you also pick up several thousand years of history. — Gordon R Dickson Copy Share Image
Sometimes, history sneaks up on you. And sometimes you know it's coming. — Bill de Blasio Copy Share Image
“Some historians hold that history is just one damned thing after another.” — Arnold Toynbee Copy Share Image
“He wanted to meet history face-to-face. He wanted to be the blood in its veins, as it was in his” — Ryan Graudin Copy Share Image
“What drives history is the human ambition to alter one’s condition to match one’s hopes.’3” — Andrew Marr Copy Share Image
History is indeed the witness of the times, the light of truth. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
In Norway, we have a community of people who prefer to use a version of Norwegian that looks very much like lutefisk:… — Erik Naggum Copy Share Image
In the history of the United States, there is no continuity at all. You can cut through it anywhere and nothing on… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
It takes more to make one sage today than it did to make the seven of Greece. And you need more resources… — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
Indiana's ninth congressional district isn't historically known as a fount of congressional contributions. That said, if you look at my fundraising history,… — Todd Young Copy Share Image
We are people with all the hopes, dreams, passions, and faults of everyone else. Eighty percent of us are born into families… — Billy Barty Copy Share Image
I don't believe that a transgender fighter should have to disclose her personal medical history to other female fighters before they fight. — Fallon Fox Copy Share Image
You who have read the history of nations, from Moses down to our last election, where have you ever seen one class… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
“To fly strong with broken wings, to wax eloquent with but a pinch of words, to race into hearts and history with… — Agona Apell Copy Share Image
“flaunting the Kohinoor on the Queen Mother’s crown in the Tower of London is a powerful reminder of the injustices perpetrated by… — Shashi Tharoor Copy Share Image
“TO BE HOPEFUL in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
I couldn't speak though. When he turned to face me his face was consorted with anger. He wiped blood off my chin.… — Jade Copy Share Image
I can't imagine something being beautiful at this point in history if it's destroying the planet or causing children to get sick.… — William McDonough Copy Share Image
“Future historians, pondering changes in British society from the 1980s onwards, will struggle to account for the following curious fact. Although British… — Stefan Collini Copy Share Image
The Champions League is the one thing missing from my career. When I look at the history of the competition and the… — Eden Hazard Copy Share Image
My particular historical vantage point is a product of my upbringing as that odd duck, a native Washingtonian whose parents were not… — Frank Rich Copy Share Image
“But history is that rare woman who doesn't like to look at herself in the mirror. History, when she finds herself in… — Yevgeny Yevtushenko Copy Share Image
History shows that it is not only senseless and cruel, but also difficult to state who is a foreigner. — Claudio Magris Copy Share Image
But in the secret history of anger--one man's silence / lives in the bodies of others. — Ilya Kaminsky Copy Share Image
“Rakyat kami tidak takut mati. Lebih baik mati untuk kemerdekaan daripada hidup dalam kematian.” — Cindy Adams Copy Share Image
There's a lot more historical baggage to deal with as a wife than as a partner. — Alison Pill Copy Share Image
I predict that this will be the greatest book ever and it will sell more than any other book in history — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
Yesterday is history.Tommorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. Thats why its called present!!! ;-) — Mckenzie Copy Share Image
History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Black history is American history. You cannot tell one story without telling the other. — William Barr Copy Share Image
I do love violets; they tell the history of woman's love. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
“He is dark as history, origin of the word native: the weight of blood” — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
“On weekends his idea of rest was to read military history aloud to his daughters.” — Joseph E. Persico Copy Share Image
Schools don't teach American history that well, especially a lot of black American history. — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
