The old always think the world is getting worse; it is for the young, equipped with historical facts, to point out that,… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“The history of education is a seemingly endless parade of “new ideas” that are actually old ideas renamed.” — Diane Ravitch Copy Share Image
[During the Renaissance] the Italians said, "We are one in the Father: we will go back." The Northern races said, "We are… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
At university, I said to a girl, 'Before I met you all I could think about was history; now, all I can… — Joe Thomas Copy Share Image
I have such a personal life history with R&B - it's the first music I remember hearing, and it feels like a… — Giveon Copy Share Image
'The Dovekeepers' is a compelling, beautifully written novel that combines history and fiction into a timeless story of survival and heroism. — Nina Tassler Copy Share Image
“Why did people make such a fateful miscalculation? For the same reason that people throughout history have miscalculated. People were unable to… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
The most interesting comments, they don't come from people with Klout scores. They don't come from people with a history on our… — Nick Denton Copy Share Image
For a long time growing up, I thought that everything happens for a reason and it's kind of already written. But as… — Christen Press Copy Share Image
Of course we all know people who aren't cut out for college, but I know it's a mistake to think of education… — Rebecca Mead Copy Share Image
“Attempts to locate oneself within history are as natural, and as absurd, as attempts to locate oneself within astronomy. On the day… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
For anyone of a rational disposition, fashion is often nearly impossible to fathom. Throughout many periods of history – perhaps most –… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
The only time in the history of the world that we have had any extended periods of peace is when there has… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
When you look back on a historical period of music, it seems so obvious to you what the characteristics of it are,… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
I was having problems with depression and anxiety disorder, and it felt like not blogging about it was creating a false history.… — Jenny Lawson Copy Share Image
I do write long, long character notes - family background, history, details of appearance - much more than will ever appear in… — Anne Tyler Copy Share Image
“History has proved and will prove again with this case that another church revival will happen after this new wave of persecution.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Who I am as an architect and the history of my work - that's clear to anybody who hires me. But I… — Thom Mayne Copy Share Image
History Coming too close Is monstrous, like a doll That is alive and bigger than the child Who tries to hold it. — Babette Deutsch Copy Share Image
I'm from a very violent city. I'm from New Orleans, Louisiana, and it's good to see me be able to express my… — Jason Mitchell Copy Share Image
If the past has nothing to say to the present, history may go on sleeping undisturbed in the closet where the system… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
I have scary eyes. I look like the guy in 'American History X,' yes. I remember coming home from school and asking… — Tim Ferriss Copy Share Image
Rome - the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“The power of gradually losing all feeling of strangeness or astonishment, and finally being pleased at anything, is called the historical sense… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Nothing evinced so far justifies the catastrophic damage that the Snowden leaks have done to national security—the worst disaster in the history… — Edward Lucas Copy Share Image
“Today is elections day and I am stepping out to help write a chapter that will form a part of my unborn… — Precious Kerme Copy Share Image
People don't know the past, even though we live in literate societies, because they don't trust the sources of the past. — Daniel Pauly Copy Share Image
“To accept one's past - one's history - is not the same things as drowning in it. An invented past can never… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
We're at a point in history where everyone needs to pay attention to politics. Too much is at stake for us to… — Kevin Costner Copy Share Image
“And wasn't that a great moment in baseball history," Holly Grace replied with withering sarcasm. "Helen Keller pitching and Little Stevie Wonder… — Susan Elizabeth Phillips Copy Share Image
Pleas for white acceptance of black humanity have a long and terrible history in America, stretching back to the first slave narratives. — Thomas Chatterton Williams Copy Share Image
“Societies everywhere have a tendency to construct a genealogically useful past for themselves in which desirable versions of their history are favored… — Tudor Parfitt Copy Share Image
What is history but the story of how politicians have squandered the blood and treasure of the human race? — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Anne Romaine [ is ]folk singer and a skillful historian, even though she was not formally trained in the field [of Malcolm X]. — Manning Marable Copy Share Image
There is a history of mental breakdowns in my family. It will never happen to me but it has happened to others… — Brian Cox Copy Share Image
A massive new penal system has emerged in the past few decades - a penal system unprecedented in world history. It is… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
I'm slightly obsessed with women's history, so I'd love to talk to Emily Dickinson or Louisa May Alcott. — Sandi Toksvig Copy Share Image
“To the woman in the restaurant today, the doll in her arms was the real child who still lived in her memories.” — Shogo Oketani Copy Share Image
As to the old history of Ireland, the first man ever died in Ireland was Partholan, and he is buried, and his… — Lady Gregory Copy Share Image
From lies to forgeries the step is not so long, and I have written technical essays on the logic of forgeries and… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
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