First black president ever, and to be living while it happened - that's a good part of history. That's probably the biggest… — Meek Mill Copy Share Image
Aside from Donald Trump, polls find [Hillary] Clinton to be the least-liked presidential candidate in recent history. — Tamara Keith Copy Share Image
Culture survives in smaller spaces - not in the history books that erect monuments to the nation's grand history but in cafes… — Amitava Kumar Copy Share Image
Turn over the pages of history and read the damning record of the church's opposition to every advance in every field of… — Upton Sinclair Copy Share Image
Some of the most important discoveries, innovations, and advances in our history have come from those seeking a new life in America. — Mikie Sherrill Copy Share Image
No one understands that the First Amendment is only important if you are going to offend somebody. If you're not going to… — Larry Flynt Copy Share Image
London had so much death in its history, it was hard to find a spot without spirits. They formed a safety net.… — Samantha Shannon Copy Share Image
“I’ve always felt that the greatest and most beautiful stories in the history of humanity were not sung by wandering bards or… — Liu Cixin Copy Share Image
“This is unsurprising. The history of the world is the history of people investing in dying trends to follow the crowd, whereas… — Sebastian Marshall Copy Share Image
It is impossible not to feel stirred at the thought of the emotions of man at certain historic moments of adventure and… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
When a society is really successful like America, throughout history there's been this trend for those societies to be obsessed about end… — Peter Molyneux Copy Share Image
“A number of years ago, when I was a freshly-appointed instructor, I met, for the first time, a certain eminent historian of… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“Facta! Yes, Facta ficta! - A historian has to do, not with what actually happened, but only with events supposed to have… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Beautiful blueberry nights fill my liver with morning and the nozzle of my heart spews forth an amalgam of blood. The sun… — Bohumil Hrabal Copy Share Image
“The secular are at this moment in history a great deal more optimistic than the religious – something of an irony, given… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Hanson is not the pop band that a lot of people think we are. I think we're a lot more rooted in… — Isaac Hanson Copy Share Image
A work should convey its entire meaning by itself, imposing it on the spectator even before he knows what the subject is. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
The end of my playing career was May 28, 2017. That, for me, was an historic day. I'll carry it with me… — Francesco Totti Copy Share Image
A new chapter in the history of international politics has begun, one in which the pursuit and control of energy resources would… — Michael Klare Copy Share Image
I'd hate to live where people knew my history. I love familiarity on holiday but not at home, as I'm sure my… — Sarah Millican Copy Share Image
But all history has taught us the grim lesson that no nation has ever been successful in avoiding the terrors of war… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
More good has been accomplished by simple people seeking their own honest ends than by all the philanthropists in history. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
The history of modern nutritionism has been a history of macronutrients at war: protein against carbs; carbs against proteins, and then fats;… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
We may pretend that we're basically moral people who make mistakes, but the whole of history proves otherwise. — Terry Hands Copy Share Image
The fact is, there is not now, nor has there ever been in the whole of history, a single country in the… — Sandi Toksvig Copy Share Image
“But the railroads are a new force. No hatred is in their history. They heal the wounds of the past, and they… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
“My Japanese isn’t much better today, but at least now I appreciate my duality more than when I was a punk kid.” — Gil Asakawa Copy Share Image
I've been dedicated to the proposition that there's been no greater wealth-creation system in the history of mankind than the American free-enterprise… — Jeb Hensarling Copy Share Image
Historical investigation and literary criticism have taken the magic out of the Bible and have made it a composite human book, written… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
Never in the history of fashion has so little material been raised so high to reveal so much that needs to be… — Cecil Beaton Copy Share Image
I'm all about the story. And the stories I remember tend to be the ones of sorrow, or family history, or revelation… — Fiona Bruce Copy Share Image
Statues and murals depicting historical figures, and even Jesus Christ himself, are being targeted by angry mobs of individuals looking to rewrite… — Jeff Van Drew Copy Share Image
“Normal people don't have to decide what's worth remembering. You are given a hierarchy, recurring characters, the help of repetition, of anticipation,… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
"Plastic moments" are those periods that overlap when the old has gone but the new has not yet arrived and when the… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
As an American people, what is greatest about our history are the many times we have led this world away from hate,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
History suggests that the disillusioned and the disaffected do not readily take to the streets nor man the barricades to defend a… — David Olusoga Copy Share Image
Madam President, speaking here in Dublin Castle it is impossible to ignore the weight of history, as it was yesterday when you… — Queen Elizabeth II Copy Share Image
“To hell with everything" — if these words have been uttered, even only once, coldly, with complete awareness of what they mean,… — Emil M. Cioran Copy Share Image
We've all faced the charge that our novels are history lite, and to some extent, that's true. Yet for some, historical fiction… — Saul David Copy Share Image
“There is an underside to every age about which history does not often speak, because history is written from records left by… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image