“My walk through the cemetery was an acquaintance with local history.” — Christopher S. Wren Copy Share Image
There was a time in American history when almost every white person knew who Aretha Franklin was. — Peabo Bryson Copy Share Image
I guess I've played a lot of victims, but that's what a lot of the history of women is about. — Jodie Foster Copy Share Image
“Fact and myth are history’s bedfellows; it’s hard to wake one without disturbing the other.” — J.G. McKenney Copy Share Image
“Political judgment is the ability to hear the distant hoofbeats of the horse of history.” — Otto von Bismarck Copy Share Image
“Check the history, more people died for freedom than love, people need freedom before they need love.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
The greatest history book ever written is the one hidden in our DNA. — Spencer Wells Copy Share Image
History belongs to everyone. I don't think you have to give up scholarly standards. But I also don't think you want to… — Margaret MacMillan Copy Share Image
Apologetic explanations do not develop unless there is a reality that has to be explained and defended. Jesus was undeniably a figure… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
The parliamentary principle of decision by majorities only appears during quite short periods of history, and those are always periods of decadence… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Christian history looks glorious in retrospect; but it is made up of constant hard choices and unattractive tasks, accepted under the pressure… — Evelyn Underhill Copy Share Image
In fact, the history of North America has been perhaps more profoundly influenced by man's inheritance from his past homes than by… — Ellsworth Huntington Copy Share Image
A time will come when men will sit with history before them or with some old newspaper before them and ask incredulously,"Was… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
“There are two kind of people in the world those who wish to be remembered, and those who are always remembered.” — Kartik Mehta Copy Share Image
The historian has before him a jigsaw puzzle from which many pieces have disappeared. These gaps can be filled only by his… — Gaetano Salvemini Copy Share Image
“We are all on the same road, some ahead of us and some behind. We do not always recognize ourselves as being… — Nell Gavin Copy Share Image
“What we call happiness is sometimes the accordance between our life and circumstances,our biography and history ,our personal aspirations and historical currents… — Alija Izetbegović Copy Share Image
Ultimately, if people lose their willingness to recognize that there are times in our history when legality becomes distinct from morality, we… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
The lack of insight to reality, life and history as well as into God's ways, or sunan in His creation, some people… — Yusuf al-Qaradawi Copy Share Image
We stand now at the turning point between two eras. Behind us is a past to which we can never return The… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
“Laughing,I poked him for his embarrassingly accurate imitation of my southern accent. He continued in my voice, "Then one day my boyfriend… — Jennifer Echols Copy Share Image
But history will judge you, and as the years pass, you will ultimately judge yourself, in the extent to which you have… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
Muslims naturally saw Christendom as their arch rival. One point that is really important to bear in mind, particularly in addressing an… — Bernard Lewis Copy Share Image
If we are suppose to forget about the past, why do we have to take history class anyway? — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“It is better to give your path to a dog than to be bitten by him, contesting for the right.” — Abe Lincoln Copy Share Image
I like American history, so I was aware of the participants and a lot of it. — Kevin Costner Copy Share Image
You got to look at Jon Jones and what he's done - the long history of legends that dude's beat. — Jeremy Stephens Copy Share Image
History takes place between the Fall and the Apocalypse, with a narrow escape route called Salvation. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
I don't look back on history. I want to look forward to the future. — Vincent Janssen Copy Share Image
People have an annoying habit of remembering things they shouldn't. — Christopher Paolini Copy Share Image
I'm a history nerd. Actually acting's the best job for somebody who loves weird, different stuff. — Lauren Cohan Copy Share Image
I am addicted to arrivals, to those innocent dawn moments from which history accelerates. — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
I am convinced that climate change represents a historic opportunity on an even greater scale. — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
Diamonds are a key component in the campaign to make poverty history. — Nicky Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
