Every child growing up will look to their parents, my mother and my father. My grandmother lived with us. I picked up… — John Hume Copy Share Image
“Talk away. If you bore us, we have books." With this invitation Rickie began to relate his history. The reader who has… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
Throughout history the leaders of the countries have been very particular about what songs should be sung. We know the power of… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
“Either that information was not believed or inexplicably never passed on to the regional military command. When the attack finally came, Vienamese… — Nayan Chanda Copy Share Image
The story of dance in the Western world is as much an alternative vision of the events of history as is the… — Jamake Highwater Copy Share Image
My administration will be more supportive of the good works done here than any administration in the history of this country because… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
The brutality of communism was quickly swept under history's rug, in large part because so many on the left had embraced it… — Cal Thomas Copy Share Image
“The history of every dead and dying “growth” industry shows a self-deceiving cycle of bountiful expansion and undetected decay.” — Harvard Business School Press Copy Share Image
“The Women’s March was the biggest single protest in American history. Hundreds of thousands of people gathered in cities like New York,… — Hillary Rodham Clinton Copy Share Image
“The role of science is not to serve the demands of the moment and provide easy answers when society demands them. Its… — Barbora Jiřincová Copy Share Image
One of my favorite things, as a critic, was finding books by new writers who possessed a distinctive voice and vision, an… — Michiko Kakutani Copy Share Image
“The great historian of religion Martin Marty once said every religion serves two functions: First, it is a message of personal salvation… — Nancy Pearcey Copy Share Image
The history of American democracy, to say the least, has been checkered. Our nation was founded at a time when people of… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
Those who stand for different causes during different generations often experience the same oppositions and the same difficulties as those of the… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“The ufo is nothing more than an assertion of herself by the Goddess into history, saying to science and paternalistically governed and… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
I was at Edinburgh doing history of art, Spanish and Arabic. I was originally supposed to do Italian instead of Arabic but… — Sophie Cookson Copy Share Image
America now has more and better dancers than they have ever had in the history of the country, but that won't account… — Gene Kelly Copy Share Image
How beautiful that after 2,000 years, no one can outdo "God is love." It's the most perfectly concise, hopeful phrase in history. — Mark Hart Copy Share Image
There's a tradition of reenactment in documentary which is about sort of illustrating what the past might have been like. — Joshua Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
My mother's family migrated from Mexico to Colorado and then to the Salinas Valley of California. My father was based there, they… — Ron Rivera Copy Share Image
One who wins without problems,it is just 'VICTORY' but One who wins with lot of troubles that is 'HISTORY' — Abhishek Tiwari Copy Share Image
I went to my first dinosaur hall with my father and twin brother. We went to the American Museum of Natural History,… — David H. Koch Copy Share Image
We all grow up with the weight of history on us. Our ancestors dwell in the attics of our brains as they… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think perhaps of all the things a police state can do to its citizens, distorting history is possibly the most pernicious. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
...but I could not sleep without proper covering and spent the rest of the night rewriting lost arguments from my past, altering… — Patrick deWitt Copy Share Image
“David Stern might be the smartest executive in the history of professional sports. His obsession with the Vagrant Kings is one of… — R.E. Graswich Copy Share Image
Throughout its history, Islam has borrowed and adapted from other civilizations, both ancient and modern. — Shereen El Feki Copy Share Image
The 21st century is going to be the American century. Because we lead not only by the example of our power, but… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
“But this is just how the Lord delights to work--taking the sidelined and the overlooked and giving them quietly pivotal roles in… — Dane C. Ortlund Copy Share Image
In Thailand's history there have been dissensions from time to time, but in general, unity has prevailed. — Bhumibol Adulyadej Copy Share Image
I was very interested in history, but I also thought, you know, history is not that interesting sometimes, and it can feel… — Min Jin Lee Copy Share Image
President Barack Obama has stood watch over the greatest job loss in modern American history. And that, my friends, is one inconvenient… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
“You people snicker at me and my histories. But history is important. It can be a weapon --for both sides." -Grand Lord… — John Jackson Miller Copy Share Image
We Austrians know that in light of our own history, we have a special responsibility toward Israel and the Jewish people. — Sebastian Kurz Copy Share Image
Television is better than it's ever been in history. A lot of stories are being pushed - because of how complicated they… — Leonardo DiCaprio Copy Share Image
The study of history, it seems to me, leads to the conviction that all important events tend toward the same end -… — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
Throughout American history, there have been moments that call on us to meet the challenges of an uncertain world, and pay whatever… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“I have to say it's the most sizzling, delicious, sublime kiss ever. In the history of human beings. Possibly back to and… — Jody Gehrman Copy Share Image
I really love history. When I was a little kid in Brazil, it was my favorite subject in school. I always did… — Max Cavalera Copy Share Image
“Had all the world been a school and Wilson its principal, he would have been the greatest statesman in history.” — Barbara W. Tuchman Copy Share Image
