My heart goes out to victims and survivors of the Hurricane Katrina tragedy and to their families. This disaster will go down… — Ellen Tauscher Copy Share Image
In the history of education, the most striking phenomenon is that schools of learning, which at one epoch are alive with a… — Ted Sizer Copy Share Image
There is a golden thread which runs through British history of the individual, standing firm against tyranny and then of the individual… — Gordon Brown Copy Share Image
You're not being paid by how hard you work, but by what you accomplish. If you can't hack it, pack it. Our… — William A. Connelly Copy Share Image
“It was the greatest loss of life in the history of the British military, and many in the West began to portray… — David Grann Copy Share Image
If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Mayweather has been hit the least out of every world champion in history and that is the art of the sport; to… — Anthony Yarde Copy Share Image
He stared at me with bitter understanding. We both knew there was no room in this for friendship. Nothing left but childhood… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
“If I am alive this is my book, and my father lives now in the afterlife that is a book, a thing… — Niall Williams Copy Share Image
We [Americans] have a historical trauma when it comes to the past relationships when it comes to Native Americans and the history… — Adam Beach Copy Share Image
If the Book of the Law could be forgotten for so many years, who knows what was done to it during those… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
When I looked at her, she appeared to be a different person from the one I'd known... She had rewritten everything, our… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
Instructed by history and reflection, Julian was persuaded that, if the diseases of the body may sometimes be cured by salutary violence,… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
President Obama is one of the great political knife-fighters in modern history. He is a failed president - his economy is bleak,… — Ben Shapiro Copy Share Image
If, in schools, we keep teaching that history is divided into American history and Chinese history and Russian history and Australian history,… — David Christian Copy Share Image
History is reticent about women who were common soldiers, who bore arms, belonged to regiments, and took part in battles on the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Academy of Architecture in Mendrisio comes from afar. Our land has a millennial history of emigrations: master masons, architects, builders, decorators,… — Mario Botta Copy Share Image
World War II ended the Great Depression with one of the great public-private industrial collaborations in the history of man. — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
Railing against the past will not heal us. History has happened. It's over and done with. All we can do is to… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
In exchange for power, influence, command and a place in history, a president gives up the bulk of his privacy. — Roger Mudd Copy Share Image
I always had a great history of comics. I've been buying them since I was six years old. I was a student… — Rob Liefeld Copy Share Image
Then I realized my early work did have something special that audiences adored apart from what I humbly thought about them. They… — Dario Argento Copy Share Image
History has shown that a government's redistribution of shrinking wealth, in preference to a private sector's creation of new sources of it,… — Victor Davis Hanson Copy Share Image
The whole point about historians is that we are really communing with the dead. It's very restful - because you read. There's… — Niall Ferguson Copy Share Image
“God still has a way of wringing good out of evil. History has proven time and time again that unmerited suffering is… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
“So holding many factors constant, we find that living in a civilization reduces one’s chances of being a victim of violence fivefold.” — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“It was because historians made it sound so coherent, so purposeful, so complete. They'd take an entire century and impose a meaning… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
Far from being magisterial in its objectivity, science was conditioned by history, society, and the prejudices of scientists. — Thomas Kuhn Copy Share Image
“What a school of politeness is such a contemplation of the past! To take everything objectively, to be angry at nothing, to… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Food might be more immediately important than history but if you don't understand what's been done to you - by your own… — Henry Hampton Copy Share Image
I had the longest judicial vacancy in the history of the United States - on the Eastern District of North Carolina. Not… — Richard Burr Copy Share Image
“she had taught a class in oral history at the community college, and Elner Shimfissle had attended with her friend Irene Goodnight.” — Fannie Flagg Copy Share Image
It somehow became an article of faith on the right that Obama is the most extreme president in American history. Although, when… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
Knowing more about family history is the single biggest predictor of a child's emotional well-being. Grandparents can play a special role in… — Bruce Feiler Copy Share Image
“History was easy: the past with all loss burned out of it, all sorrow worn out of it—all that was merely personal… — Alice McDermott Copy Share Image
It's said that history inevitably marches toward democracy, but it only leaves the possibility of democracy, and the constant threat that it… — Zephyr Teachout Copy Share Image
Presidents always want to do nice, noble, long-run things, and Congress is less keen to do so. We've seen that throughout the… — Tyler Cowen Copy Share Image
After pop art, graffiti is probably the biggest art movement in recent history to have such an impact on culture. — Jeffrey Deitch Copy Share Image
The thirst for equality can express itself either as a desire to draw everyone down to one's level, or to raise oneself… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
History is for all of us to discuss. All history is our common heritage to discuss and analyze. The founding of the… — Ken Loach Copy Share Image