If students get a sound education in the history, social effects and psychological biases of technology, they may grow to be adults… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
The people in Japan know more about the history of jazz and the musicians than the people in the United States do. — Billy Higgins Copy Share Image
I'd never imagined I had the opportunity to play with Tom Brady, the greatest athlete in sports history. — Mike Evans Copy Share Image
Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and… — Carter G. Woodson Copy Share Image
Give me one other part of history where everybody shows up to the same social space. Fragmentation is a more natural state… — danah boyd Copy Share Image
Birds, it must be admitted, are the most exciting and most deserving of the vertebrates; they are perhaps the best entre into… — Roger Tory Peterson Copy Share Image
As far as I'm concerned, the 20th century was performance-driven, but for some reason, the critics and historians didn't know how to… — Roselee Goldberg Copy Share Image
Even as a child, even as my blood-past was drained from me, I understood that if I were strong enough to accept… — Anne Michaels Copy Share Image
“We’re the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our Great War’s… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Stark left me with the dishes and joined the guys in the living room. When I was done I walked in there… — Jade Copy Share Image
Historical records show that smallpox was a human scourge for thousands of years. The virus produces high fever, severe back pain and… — Scott Gottlieb Copy Share Image
“Even if the past exists as an independent reality outside the minds of those who write about it, we can never know… — John Zanetti Copy Share Image
Governments that use violence to stop democratic development will not earn themselves respite forever. They will pay an increasingly high price for… — William Hague Copy Share Image
True religion is a universal and (necessarily) ego-transcending psycho-physical motivation of human beings. However, up to the present stage in human history,… — Adi Da Copy Share Image
“According to history, he wrote of humans originally having four arms, four legs, and a single head made up of two faces.”… — K.A. Poe Copy Share Image
It's very important that all the supporting characters feel like they've existed in the world, that they've had a history, and they'll… — Andrew Haigh Copy Share Image
The institution of chivalry forms one of the most remarkable features in the history of the Middle Ages. — Horatio Alger Copy Share Image
I like to know what the gestation of the idea is, I like to know the foundation, and I do a lot… — Kieran Bew Copy Share Image
In all the history of the boxing game, you'll find no human interest story to compare with the life narrative of James… — Damon Runyon Copy Share Image
There's already a lot of self-exculpatory history being written. Right across the board. And it's my task to make sure that such… — Eric Reeves Copy Share Image
In the real world, nothing happens at the right place at the right time. It is the job of journalists and historians… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It is up to us, to everyone at Celtic Park, to build up our own legends. We don't want to live with… — Jock Stein Copy Share Image
Of compelling consideration is the fact that words acquire scope and function from the history of events which they summarize. — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share Image
“This was the moment when history held its breath, and the present sheared asunder from the past as an iceberg splits from… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
The planet will not survive another hundred years of the same state of consciousness that produced the external effects of recent history. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Skepticism has become a virtue. Cynicism and demand for proof has become enlightened thought. Is it any wonder that humans now feel… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
“History – An account mostly false, of events unimportant, which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers mostly fools.” — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“Do you think we can be friends?” I asked. He stared up at the ceiling. “Probably not, but we can pretend.” — Priya Ardis Copy Share Image
the beginning of my history is - love. It is the beginning of every man and every woman's history, if they are… — Marie Corelli Copy Share Image
There is no self-knowledge except historical self-knowledge. No one knows what he is if he doesn't know what his contemporaries are. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
Modi made history in 2014 by becoming the first non-Congress government at the Centre to get absolute majority. — N. Chandrababu Naidu Copy Share Image
Few of the great tragedies of history were created by the village idiot, and many by the village genius. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The Bible's historical accuracy is a reminder that while "the heavens declare the glory of God," there's also plenty of evidence among… — Charles Colson Copy Share Image
Humor, in one form or another, is characteristic of every nation; and reflecting the salient points of social and national life, it… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
“We're not words, Henry, we're people. Words are how others define us, but we can define ourselves any way we choose.” — Shaun David Hutchinson Copy Share Image
I believe history teaches us a categorical lesson: that once a people are determined to become free, then nothing in the world… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
“Some writers refuse to lay their heads peaceably on the pillow of literary history in order to give posterity good dreams." --… — of the works of Knut Hamsun (26 nov 1998 James Wood review in London Review of Books Copy Share Image
The early church didn’t say, ‘Look what the world is coming to!’ They said, ‘Look what has come into the world’! — Carl F. H. Henry Copy Share Image
Politics is my second passion, but as a historian, you have to be genuinely neutral. You have failed in your primary duty… — Amanda Foreman Copy Share Image
You can't just read the Koran to understand Muslim life. You have to look at history, at personalities, at economics, and so… — Daniel Pipes Copy Share Image
