When I was nine I spent a lot of my time reading books about the history of comedy, or listening to the… — Paul Merton Copy Share Image
If I could have anything - you know, and this is across the board for any presidential candidate - I would have… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
For the first time in human history, society has the capacity, the knowledge and the resources to eradicate poverty — Thabo Mbeki Copy Share Image
History is gossip that's been legitimized, and that's really the case when you get into some of the Roman historians. Wow! They'd… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“For a man is justly despised who has one opinion in history and another in politics, one for abroad and another at… — John Emerich Edward Dalberg Copy Share Image
Whatever an artist's personal feelings are, as soon as an artist fills a certain area on the canvas or circumscribes it, he… — Willem de Kooning Copy Share Image
The first and highest law must be the love of man to man. Homo homini Deus est - this is the supreme… — Ludwig Feuerbach Copy Share Image
No, she did not have a history of twins, and we had discussed all of this before she got pregnant. What if… — Cheryl Tiegs Copy Share Image
Scientific practice is above all a story-telling practice. ... Biology is inherently historical, and its form of discourse is inherently narrative. ...… — Donna J. Haraway Copy Share Image
The theologian may indulge the pleasing task of describing Religion as she descended from Heaven, arrayed in her native purity. A more… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I thought of that lost book and all the memories it held and how it was just one of millions of objects… — Glenn Haybittle Copy Share Image
“So when you study history, you must always ask yourself, Whose story am I missing? Whose voice was suppressed so that this… — Yaa Gyasi Copy Share Image
“It can be argued that the history of the United States is an uninterrupted cavalcade of such transformative moments. Walt was a… — Leslie LeMon Copy Share Image
As a child, I always wanted to be an actor. But as I grew older, the acting dream kind of faded away,… — Yami Gautam Copy Share Image
W. H. Auden once suggested that to understand your own country you need to have lived in at least two others. One… — Ian Mortimer Copy Share Image
“All true histories contain instruction; though, in some, the treasure may be hard to find, and when found, so trivial in quantity,… — Anne Brontë Copy Share Image
Just as a tree without roots is dead, a people without history or cultural roots also becomes a dead people. — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
“To this day, good English usually means the English wealthy and powerful people spoke a generation or two ago.” — Jack Lynch Copy Share Image
I might even be at heavyweight one day; I don't know. You guys know our eating habits is bad down in Hawaii,… — Max Holloway Copy Share Image
Rugby league has this great history at Wembley through taking the Challenge Cup final there, and the lack of a statue is… — Lindsay Hoyle Copy Share Image
“Nothing is infinitely reducible. You can split an atom but you can't vaporize it. Stuff sticks around. It clings to you, even… — Lauren Beukes Copy Share Image
The greatest and most momentous fact which the history of the world records is the fact of-Christ's birth. — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
It may be doubted that there are many other animals which have played so important a part in the history of the… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
I love all history because it’s storytelling. But, I will always have a special place in my heart for the Tudor dynasty. — Natalie Copy Share Image
That's the one thing I have over any twenty-one-year-old: a proud history of accumulated neuroses. That's the game in which I'm da… — Ray Romano Copy Share Image
In October, 1865, occurred what was, in my eyes, the greatest event in the history of the observatory. The new transit circle… — Simon Newcomb Copy Share Image
According to the scientific naturalist version of cosmic history, nature is a permanently closed system of material effects that can never be… — Phillip E. Johnson Copy Share Image
Every good historian is almost by definition a revisionist. He looks at the accepted view of a particular historic episode or period… — Paul Johnson Copy Share Image
The history of African-American repression in this country rose from government-sanctioned racism. Jim Crow laws were a product of bigoted state and… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
I've traveled to Brazil, Europe, Asia - all in preparation to defeat Demetrious Johnson, to defeat the pound-for-pound best fighter in history. — Henry Cejudo Copy Share Image
Dates are convenient hooks on which we can hang our memories of events. But history is all about people - people like… — Joan Lowery Nixon Copy Share Image
I majored in history and political science at the College of Charleston in South Carolina, and I have always loved researching how… — Matt Czuchry Copy Share Image
Whosoever, in writing a modern history, shall follow truth too near the heels, it may happily strike out his teeth. — Walter Raleigh Copy Share Image
“That brings me back to Monday, March 10, 1783, in Newburgh, New York, and the extraordinary events that followed over the next several days.” — John Ripin Miller Copy Share Image
Everyone's life is a page in the human history irrespective of the position he or she holds or the work he or… — Abdul Kalam Copy Share Image
All ancient history was written with a moral object; the ethical interest predominates almost to the exclusion of all others. — Tacitus Copy Share Image
Know your history. It can teach you who you are, where you have come from, and how to be a better person… — Emayatzy E. Corinealdi Copy Share Image
“History does not record anywhere a religion that has any rational basis. Religion is a crutch for people not strong enough to… — Robert Heinlein Copy Share Image
“You get to tour some of the historic homes and listen to ghost stories." "This is what people do in small towns?"… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
Never give up on your effort to change the world. The people who made the greatest impacts in history were hardly recognised… — Terry Mark Copy Share Image
