As for me, the grounds of my hope have always been that history is wilder than our imagination of it and that… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
That Jesus of Nazareth died upon a cross is mere matter of history; that He who did so die was the Christ… — Robert Anderson Copy Share Image
The history of America is to expand civil liberties in a responsible and civil manner. We need to remember that our wonderful… — James McGreevey 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
Not only the Archivist alone but all who work for NARA are designated custodians of America's national memory. — Allen Weinstein 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
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
My father was not only a planetary scientist and a great popularizer of science, but he thought very deeply about the world.… — Nick Sagan Copy Share Image
History has been male and the future is female. Leaning on women as a body and the female archetype, and not just… — Antony Hegarty Copy Share Image
“History has taught us that the nature of man is evil, sublimely so. Good is not perfectible, but evil is. Why should… — Elizabeth Kostova Copy Share Image
“What is history? What is its significance for humanity? Dr. J. H. Robinson gives us a precise answer: "Man's abject dependence on… — Alfred Korzybski Copy Share Image
There is romance, the genuine glinting stuff, in typewriters, and not merely in their development from clumsy giants into agile dwarfs, but… — J. B. Priestley Copy Share Image
“See him. You could say that he's sustained by his fellow men, like you. Has peopled the shore with them calling to… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
The fall of the Berlin Wall is very much a sequel, a continuation of the story about Eastern Europe emerging from war… — Serge Schmemann Copy Share Image
“When the Bible is understood in its literary and historical context; errors, contradictions, and inconsistencies pose no threat to spirituality, whether that… — Valerie Tarico 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 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
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 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
“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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
Women more than men can strip war of its glamour and its out-of-date heroisms and patriotisms, and see it as a demon… — Lillian Wald 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
It is worth starting with visions, though, because they establish hopes and fears. History then determines which prevail. — John Lewis Gaddis Copy Share Image
The ending of partition was inevitable because Ireland was one nation by history and tradition , by facts of race, geography, and economy — Seamus Costello Copy Share Image
Before he can speak I kiss Stark. He is still smiling. I snuggle up to him and he is so warm! Next… — Jade Copy Share Image
For most of Wall Street's history, stock trading was fairly straightforward: buyers and sellers gathered on exchange floors and dickered until they… — Charles Duhigg Copy Share Image
If history could teach us anything, it would be that private property is inextricably linked with civilization. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
“If everyone always knows what they’re doing and acts in a perfectly rational way, how did most of world history happen?” — M.R. Carey Copy Share Image
Sometimes the connection you made with other people sneak-up on you, you share experience, you have a history, you share a bond.… — Igwe Daniel Kelechi Copy Share Image
