“In general the assumption of all of us, child or adult, was that this was a new country and that a new… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
“The real significance of Magellan's voyage was not that it was the first to circumnavigate the planet, but that it was the… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
“History is not a map to be read, nor a path to be followed. It is a landscape of contours and textures,… — Tom Lloyd Copy Share Image
If you really want you people to innovate, buy a science fiction book, tear off the covers, and tell them it's history. — Nolan Bushnell Copy Share Image
I'm for the dreamers. The only really important things in history have been started by the dreamers. They never know what can't… — Bill Veeck Copy Share Image
“If God give you a status, don't turn yourself to a statue. Don't become a monument. God still want to reside inside… — Patience Johnson Copy Share Image
The history of atomism is one of reductionism – the effort to reduce all the operations of nature to a small number… — Leon M. Lederman Copy Share Image
We live in a time where there's a great deal of navel-gazing with the devices that we have that occupy so much… — Ng Chin Han Copy Share Image
“There is a confusing dual structure in the relationship of the individual to history. Even the sensory certainties of suffering follow a… — Andreas Bernard Copy Share Image
There's always a temptation, I think, among some historical writers to shade things toward the modern point of view. You know, they… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
If Google decided at any point to publish my search history, or your search history, or anyone's search history, there's a litany… — Ashton Kutcher Copy Share Image
“(Running out of Night) ...is a story that respects this pivotal era of American history, a story that reveals the pain, the… — Sharon Lovejoy Copy Share Image
“It's the kind of story we learn over and over again about everything in the world: your life starts out as a… — Wendy McClure Copy Share Image
The 20th century saw far greater catastrophes than September 11th, as bad as it was, and they didn't render literature or art… — Jay McInerney Copy Share Image
“There are many narratives from documented histories that are based on real events, of course, but they were fantastically embellished by the… — Leah Reise Copy Share Image
“The reason to have history is to be able to say, ‘This is where you came from. This is what it cost.… — Glenn Beck Copy Share Image
Aberrations in monsoon behaviour are not uncommon, having been with us throughout our agricultural history. — M. S. Swaminathan Copy Share Image
From the Soviet gulag to the Nazi concentration camps and the killing fields of Cambodia, history teaches that granting the state legal… — Pete du Pont Copy Share Image
It was possibly the most circumspect advance in the history of military maneuvers, right down at the bottom end of the scale… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
In the darkest days of European history, America stood close by us and today we stand close by America. Nothing will ever… — Romano Prodi Copy Share Image
History has demonstrated time and again the inherent resilience and recuperative powers of the American economy. — Ben Bernanke Copy Share Image
It was always tough, but today we are in the throes of something we have never seen in our history. It's clear… — Sumner Redstone Copy Share Image
You always get a special kick on opening day, no matter how many you go through. You look forward to it like… — Joe DiMaggio Copy Share Image
The history of the British empire, the chapter of our national story that would have explained to my classmates why a child… — David Olusoga Copy Share Image
There is a history of footballers in my family; my granddad played for Notts County and my dad played at county level. — Matt Smith Copy Share Image
“Without people hurting one another, there’s no such thing as story. There’s no such thing as history. The entire record of human… — Van Badham Copy Share Image
When I first read Barbara Tuchman's 'The Guns of August' in the autumn of 1963, it was as though history went from… — Margaret MacMillan Copy Share Image
Architecture and war are not incompatible. Architecture is war. War is architecture. I am at war with my time, with history, with… — Lebbeus Woods Copy Share Image
I don't employ Talleyrand when I want a thing done, but only when I want to have the appearance of wanting to… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
If we don't empower families to be able to have a quality education, then their children - for the first time in… — Jeb Bush Copy Share Image
Early on, I said to myself that I would like to write a kind of moral and spiritual history of a place.… — Horton Foote Copy Share Image
History is a compass that you locate yourself on the map of human geography, politically, culturally, financially. — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
I think if you accept the Left's premise of a living Constitution, then you accept the Left's premise of a living America,… — Andrew Breitbart Copy Share Image
“As we were told about others, so others will be told about us. that is "HISTORY". and the most painfull thing about… — hamzat haruna ribah Copy Share Image
In human history a moral victory is always a disaster, for it debauches and degrades both the victor and the vanquished. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
I was an art history major and I really love art. I wanted to give them artist names. 'The Ninja Turtles' happen… — Hilaria Baldwin Copy Share Image
“If you don't read books, and if you don't get consumed by the physical and moral life of men and women in… — David Denby Copy Share Image
“That was the nature of history, of course: notional, partial, unknowable, a record made by the victors.” — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
“was significant that every historic decision of the Truman Cabinet was debated by Congress only after it had been made irreversible.” — T. R. Fehrenbach Copy Share Image
There is always some accident in the best things, whether thoughts or expressions or deeds. The memorable thought, the happy expression, the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
