The history of Christianity, therefore, must be of concern to all who are interested in the record of man and particularly to… — Kenneth Scott Latourette Copy Share Image
History does not move by leaps into unrelated novelty, but rather by the selective emphasis of aspects of its own immediate past. — Julian Jaynes Copy Share Image
It was one of those great miracles of history that they managed to smuggle an Enigma machines out to Britain just before… — Michael Apted Copy Share Image
Limitation is not a matter of justice. It is a rule of public policy which has its origin in history and its… — Alfred Denning, Baron Denning Copy Share Image
Imagination is more important than knowledge, myth more than history and dreams more than facts. Hope always triumphs over experience and that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I love watching old movies anyway - I grew up with my mom watching old movies and being immersed in the history… — Lily Collins Copy Share Image
Disneyland is often called a magic kingdom because it combines fantasy and history, adventure and learning, together with every variety of recreation… — Walt Disney Copy Share Image
History is the record of human progress, a record of the struggle of the advancement of the human mind, of the human… — Jawaharlal Nehru Copy Share Image
“I will go home and much of what I will have to say will seem strange to the people of my village...… — Lorraine Hansberry Copy Share Image
“...the past, like the future, is dark. There is so much we don't know, and to write truthfully about a life, your… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
I have a hippopotamus skull next to my bed, called Gregory. When I was six, my three sisters and I clubbed together… — Deborah Moggach Copy Share Image
“Your childhood," said Yackle coaxingly, as if she could smell his thoughts. As if she could sniff out those passages he hadn't… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
Nations! What are nations? Tartars! and Huns! and Chinamen! Like insects they swarm. The historian strives in vain to make them memorable.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“The intellectual is and only can be a militant, engaged as a singularity among others, embarked on the project of co-research aimed… — Michael Hardt Copy Share Image
The history of missions is the history of answered prayer. From Pentecost to the Haystack meeting in New England and from the… — Samuel Marinus Zwemer Copy Share Image
“Maybe it’s true that the people who live through the times that become history’s pivotal points are those least likely to understand… — Jean Hegland Copy Share Image
Nations without a past are contradictions in terms. What makes a nation is the past, what justifies one nation against others is… — Eric Hobsbawm Copy Share Image
I'm a firm believer that no matter how small an object is, you can find interesting things out about it and its… — Henry Petroski Copy Share Image
“If history has taught us anything, Arthur muses, it is that men with mustaches must never achieve positions of power.” — Tom Rachman Copy Share Image
Even as a teenager, I felt that for whatever reason that we were living very close to the end of human history.… — Anne Graham Lotz Copy Share Image
It's time for us to start teaching our children about the dirty, despicable, awful things that those communist and socialist despots did… — Mark Robinson Copy Share Image
When Zidane talks to you, you know you are being spoken to by one of the greatest players in the history of… — Lucas Vazquez Copy Share Image
The dogma of woman's complete historical subjection to men must be rated as one of the most fantastic myths ever created by… — Mary Ritter Beard Copy Share Image
If you don't recount your family history, it will be lost. Honor your own stories and tell them too. The tales may… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Carlyle uttered a pregnant truth when he said that the history of any country is in the biographies of the men who… — Andrew Dickson White Copy Share Image
I believe history and tradition is something solid and something we can rest on. I am not crazy about putting new spices… — Jacques Torres Copy Share Image
“The current danger for most of us is not the deprivation suffered bu our ancestors but an excess of nutrition.” — Randolph M. Nesse Copy Share Image
“The prophetic word is not intended as a minute history written in advance, but as a symbolic portrayal of what Christ has… — Desmond Ford Copy Share Image
I'm a basketball junkie and a real historian of the game, so for me to get a chance to express it and… — Paul Pierce Copy Share Image
I'm going to put people in my place, so when the history of this administration is written at least there's an authoritarian… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Back when we started this at the tail end of 'Eye of the North,' Ree Soesbee and I worked out 250 years… — Jeff Grubb Copy Share Image
Democratic nations must try to find ways to starve the terrorist and the hijacker of the oxygen of publicity on which they… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
A weak people and its equally debilitated leaders are bludgeoned by history. It maims them into the cripples that they are meant… — F. Sionil Jose Copy Share Image
I tend toward the pessimistic end of the spectrum, and unfortunately there's little in human history to convince me that pessimism is… — Ron Currie Jr Copy Share Image
Anytime we're talking about Thurgood Marshall, that's a good thing, I think, because it gives us an opportunity to go back, look… — Laurence Fishburne Copy Share Image
Our history shows that what we must do is assert domination over the machine, to guide it so that it works for… — Charles A. Reich Copy Share Image
Now, as God the maker play'd he taught the game to Nature whom he created in his image; taught her the selfsame… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
When United wanted me, I was like a horse with blinkers on. I was not interested in anyone else. City offered more… — Dimitar Berbatov Copy Share Image
“History may be just bones and ruins to you, but it is people, Janet. People loving, hurting, and dying.” — Cindy Tomamichel Copy Share Image
What would constitute useful history? That which should teach us our duties and our rights, without appearing to teach them. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
