“Road marks and maps decorate and adorn the history of our ancestral cultures. The preservation of distinct culture is therefore a a… — VD Copy Share Image
We have no obligation to make history. We have no obligation to make art. We have no obligation to make a statement.… — Michael Eisner Copy Share Image
“...Raleigh was later to write, after a duel the hangman was the one who bestowed the garland on the victor.” — Raleigh Trevelyan Copy Share Image
“All that we call sacred history attests that the birth of a poet is the principal event in chronology.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“it is a fine sunny day and great matters loom across the horizon of history. Carthage in my rearview mirror, I blend… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
In The Sellout I tried to capture how we can talk and see race, how we see urbanity, and how we see… — Paul Beatty Copy Share Image
I think one of the great historical contributions of science is to weaken the hold of religion. That's a good thing. — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
One key lesson of history is that virtually anything, including afternoon or evening thundershowers, causes Germany to invade Belgium. — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
The history of Chechnya is one of imperialism gone terribly wrong. In the 13th and 14th centuries, Chechens were among the few… — Stephen Kinzer Copy Share Image
“But I don’t understand. Why do you want me to think that this is great architecture? He pointed to the picture of… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Citizens United, I believe, will be regarded by history as one of the worst decisions this Supreme Court - or any Supreme… — Brad Schneider Copy Share Image
“Have you ever reached to a point where you asked God if the assignment is really from Him. In your account you… — Patience Johnson Copy Share Image
Future historians, I hope, will consider the American fast food industry a relic of the twentieth century--a set of attitudes, systems, and… — Eric Schlosser Copy Share Image
Men get tired of everything, of heaven no less than of hell; and that all history is nothing but a record of… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
History shows that attacks on general freedoms often begin with an attack on the freedom of a minority. It teaches us that… — George Monbiot Copy Share Image
'As Long As I Know I'm Getting Paid' is a satire. Lyrically, I want to be direct. With my history in Fall… — Patrick Stump Copy Share Image
May 4th is a particularly memorable day in American history because 84 years to the day before May 4, 1970, there was… — William Kunstler Copy Share Image
“Have men always been terrified of their true nature? Is all history a record of their denials of themselves?” — James Broughton Copy Share Image
I do not teach history in my films. I don't have a linear point of view or argument. What I do in… — Elia Suleiman Copy Share Image
The novelist must look on humanity without partiality or prejudice. His sympathy, like that of the historian, must be unbounded, and untainted… — Goldwin Smith Copy Share Image
Anybody who knows something about the history of the human race knows that there is no civilization which has condoned homosexual marriage… — Todd Akin Copy Share Image
For me, to celebrate the twelfth of October is the absolute expression of triumphism, occupation and presumptuousness, and I think that history… — Rigoberta Menchu Copy Share Image
The history of our country is not the history of any other country in the world which is either practicing advanced democracy… — Ibrahim Babangida Copy Share Image
The history of this country was made largely by people who wanted to be left alone. Those who could not thrive when… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
“A transference of memory was occurring as she, the vessel, the source, wrung every small, muffled detail into me, the depository. And… — Aanchal Malhotra Copy Share Image
I regard this conclusion as coming in the same sort of category, of historical probability so high as to be virtually certain,… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
History is an illogical record. It hinges on nothing. It is a story that changes, and has accidents, and recovers with scars. — Gretel Ehrlich Copy Share Image
There are periods in history when change is necessary, and other periods when it is better to keep everything for the time… — Oswald Mosley Copy Share Image
“History is who we are right now. I mean, just because a chapter of life is over, it isn't gone...(Page 303)” — Holly Schindler Copy Share Image
Sleep was the greatest invention in the history of mankind. When I was sleeping, I wasn’t feeling guilty, or miserable, or sad. — Jenna Black Copy Share Image
I always try to put something personal on my albums just to give people out there a little piece of my history… — Randy Houser Copy Share Image
History teaches that grave threats to liberty often come in times of urgency, when constitutional rights seem too extravagant to endure. — Thurgood Marshall Copy Share Image
The history of our country is cruel. We have to face those issues or, should I say, we had to. Not anymore… — Novak Djokovic Copy Share Image
The prophets and the writers of the Psalms were clear that God was continuing to work in the universe and in all… — Kenneth Scott Latourette Copy Share Image
One only has an adventure when one makes a mistake, but [as] my grandmother used to say: "You don't have to get… — Richard S. Wheeler Copy Share Image
As contemporary history reminds us we are human to the extent that we are able to chose between alternatives. — John G. D. Clark Copy Share Image
Remember this although timing in life is everything, memorable moments in history don't just happen! Do something...stay positive! — Amy Dumas Copy Share Image
History is everything in gardening: With a site, weather, a particular plant. It solves mysteries. And it's why, when others say, "You… — Janet Macunovich Copy Share Image
I thought that all of the sacrifices and blessings of the whole history of mankind have devolved upon me. Thank you, God. — Ben Stein Copy Share Image
“Faithfulness to the truth of history involves far more than research, however patient and scrupulous, into special facts. The narrator must seek… — Francis Parkman Copy Share Image