I subscribe to William Faulkner's' view that history is not just about what we were before but who we are now. — Ken Burns Copy Share Image
I was interested in what was really going on in Salem at that time, and I resolved to investigate this seemingly unorthodox… — Carlisle Floyd Copy Share Image
“I have more wisdom than any books ever written in history of times, any scripture ever written which you rhyme but this… — Santosh Kalwar Copy Share Image
Brooklyn has a strong, historic relationship with both music and basketball, and I look forward to working with BSE Global to find… — Angela Yee Copy Share Image
Actors yearn for the perfect director, athletes for the perfect coach, priests for the perfect pope, presidents for the perfect historian. Writers… — Thomas Fleming Copy Share Image
I want to make my mark in the NFL. This is the highest level, and this is where it goes down in… — Edgerrin James Copy Share Image
There seems to be an interest in connecting the history of the past to the present and asking whether things have really… — Rod Lurie Copy Share Image
Rome is ... an impossible compounding of time, in which no century has respect for any other and all hit you in… — Eleanor Clark Copy Share Image
“I write to breath life back into memory to remind African-Americans of our rich and textured history. I also see myself as… — Bernice L. McFadden Copy Share Image
There has never in the history of the civilized world been a cohort of kids that is so little affected by adult… — William Damon Copy Share Image
“The inner history of the Magian religion ends with Justinian’s time, as truly as that of the Faustian ends with Charles V… — Oswald Spengler Copy Share Image
“Vast historical changes in the last 500 years in the West have slowly created a world in which the individual is commonly… — Philip Cushman Copy Share Image
“A diet based on quantity rather than quality has ushered a new creature onto the world stage: the human being who manages… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
When we look back on this time and we are going to see what the Internet brought us, and social media brought… — Greg Graffin Copy Share Image
“Where does it all begin? History has no beginnings, for everything that happens becomes the cause or pretext for what occurs afterwards,… — Louis de Bernieres Copy Share Image
The only way to end poverty, to make it history, is to build viable systems on the ground that deliver critical and… — Jacqueline Novogratz Copy Share Image
“That's the way history works. People forget so easily. You start telling yourself a new version of the past, and after a… — Peter Tieryas Copy Share Image
Like the invention of the printing press before it, the Internet has been the greatest instrumentality of free speech and the exchange… — Scott Pruitt Copy Share Image
I have said, and I repeat, at the risk of appearing sacrilegious, that the gas chambers are a detail of the history… — Jean-Marie Le Pen Copy Share Image
The 1950s to me is darkness, hidden history, perversion behind most doors waiting to creep out. The 1950s to most people is… — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
Not only the Archivist alone but all who work for NARA are designated custodians of America's national memory. — Allen Weinstein Copy Share Image
You can take things from the past, from the culture, from the immediate past and things that have not yet entered the… — Michael Craig-Martin Copy Share Image
“He used to say that he never felt the hardness of the human struggle or the sadness of history as he felt… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
When I first heard that Barack Obama was going to be the first black president, I wanted to do the smallest, biggest… — Willard Wigan Copy Share Image
The history of Europe over the last several centuries provides clear evidence of the transformative power of commerce. — Iqbal Quadir Copy Share Image
We fight to exist. Personally, I am not ashamed of fighting to exist. We are doing no very extraordinary thing to fight… — Donald Woods Winnicott Copy Share Image
Islamic tradition is full of examples of supporting the autonomy of women and the empowerment of women. Very few people know that… — Khaled Abou El Fadl Copy Share Image
I haven't studied history - I couldn't give a discourse in medieval literature - but I am a personal historian, and I… — Lucy Dacus Copy Share Image
We perceive that the schemers return again and again to common sense and labor. Such is the evidence of history. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“A life, a history, whole patterns of existence altered, simply by doing nothing. The silent lie. The act of omission.” — Aminatta Forna Copy Share Image
“These forty-nine God-inspired Old Testament books divided into four sections—books of the Law, of History, of Wisdom, and of Prophecy—which” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think history is inextricably linked to identity. If you don't know your history, if you don't know your family, who are… — Mary Pipher Copy Share Image
In all our efforts to provide advantages we have actually produced the busiest, most competitive, highly pressured and over-organized generation of youngsters… — Eda LeShan Copy Share Image
The closer you can get to your setting and to primary sources, the more authentic your history is going to be. — David B. Coe Copy Share Image
When I was in school, I conceptually didn't want black people to have context, to take it out of all that history.… — Toyin Odutola Copy Share Image
Ancient history, besides the still unequalled excellence of the writers, is the best instrument for cultivating the historical sense. — Goldwin Smith Copy Share Image
Postmodernism entices us with the siren call of liberation and creativity, but it may be an invitation to intellectual and moral suicide. — Gertrude Himmelfarb Copy Share Image
If there is a single trait in our character that has historically set us apart from other nations, it is our determination… — Billy Bragg Copy Share Image
Always it comes very slowly the completed understanding of it, the repeating each one does to tell it the whole history of… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
It's taken us a short time to change the nature of nature. In my lifetime, more change than during all preceding human… — Sylvia Earle Copy Share Image
