There's a preoccupation with memory and the operation of memory and a rather rapacious interest in history. — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
Men of great talents, whether poets or historians, seldom escape the attacks of those who, without ever favoring the world with any… — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
“If I give you an historical reference, am I dating myself? No, because the only way I could date myself is if… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
When I left university with a history degree, I had no idea what I wanted to do, and I was terrified of… — Jane Fallon Copy Share Image
“Having a deep sense of understanding is a huge burden for a mind that can’t directly influence things.” — Janvier Chouteu-Chando Copy Share Image
All history has been a history of class struggles, of struggles between exploited and exploiting, between dominated and dominating classes at various… — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
All the old history was written for the amusement of the ruling classes. The lower classes couldn't read, and their rulers didn't… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
“history only moves forward in a straight line when we learn from it. Otherwise it loops past the same mistakes over and… — Jennifer Latham Copy Share Image
“1897 edition How these papers have been placed in sequence will be made manifest in the reading of them. All needless matters… — Bram Stoker Copy Share Image
Why do long marriages occasionally endow their inhabitants with a rare kind of equilibrium otherwise almost unknown in human relations? My guess… — Carolyn Heilbrun Copy Share Image
“Art no longer cares to serve the state and religion, it no longer wishes to illustrate the history of manners, it wants… — Kasimir Malevich Copy Share Image
Personally, I would like to face Barcelona in every game because it gives you so much motivation and you learn a lot… — David Trezeguet Copy Share Image
Prop 8 did something that no other state in the history of this country has done. It took away the rights of… — Gavin Newsom Copy Share Image
“For Americans, Acts 16:9 is the high-fructose corn syrup of Bible verses--an all-purpose ingredient we'll stir into everything from the ink on… — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
“Through my history's despite and ruin, I have come to its remainder, and here have made the beginning of a farm intended… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“These great historical figures we admire for their conquests, their drive, their ambition, and the progress they are said to have been… — Adam Nevill Copy Share Image
Mathematics is a vast adventure; its history reflects some of the noblest thoughts of countless generations. — Dirk Jan Struik Copy Share Image
“Author complains about "the further submergence of irrecoverable history into a perpetually churned present.” — George will Copy Share Image
I have thoroughly gone through the subject of the Incarnation; and if it served you, could at any time give you the… — Edward Irving Copy Share Image
“Although most Americans believed in Manifest Destiny, few could agree on exactly which lands the United States was supposed to govern.” — Charles W. Carey Jr Copy Share Image
When it comes to providing aid, developing innovations, and making bold steps that change the course of history, the United States is… — Seth Berkley Copy Share Image
I am a machine, condemned to devour them and then, throw them, in a changed form, on the dunghill of history. — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
[Readers] who like facts will be better off with a straight history that spares them all the forelock tugging and teacup tinkling. — Rhoda Koenig Copy Share Image
Benaras is older than history, older than tradition, older even than legend, and looks twice as old as all of them put… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
When you look at the history of wars, they ultimately revolve around one claim: "My god is better than yours." — Yair Lapid Copy Share Image
That's what History teaches us, I think, that life goes on, even though individuals die and whole civilizations crumble away: The simple… — Philip Reeve Copy Share Image
I had to make my history quick because there would be no future, merely a gossamer world blown about on the zeitgeist,… — Rene Ricard Copy Share Image
“The raconteur knows too well that, if he investigates the truth of the matter, he is only too likely to lose his… — Herbert Butterfield Copy Share Image
Have you ever found in history, one single example of a nation, thoroughly corrupted, that was afterwards restored to virtue? And without… — John Adams Copy Share Image
The main thing is, you just want to have your place in history. You hope that people will look back on it… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
Making every allowance for the errors of the most extreme fallibility, the history of Catholicism would on this hypothesis represent an amount… — William Edward Hartpole Lecky Copy Share Image
“The geographical and historical facts of Hebrew place it within the Northwest Semitic group of languages.” — Angel Sáenz-Badillos Copy Share Image
Black history is a series of missing chapters from British history. I'm trying to put those bits back in. — David Olusoga Copy Share Image
You cannot afford to confine your studies to the classroom. The universe and all of history is your classroom. — Stella Adler Copy Share Image
Ingeniously plotted and executed, Print the Legend is an epic masterpiece from Craig McDonald. Beginning to end, I was riveted by this… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
There is no history of mankind, there are only many histories of all kinds of aspects of human life. And one of… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
“faith gaped at him"how the hell did you do this?" He looked at her as if she'd asked the dumbest question in… — Dianne Sylvan Copy Share Image
The power of historical fiction for bad and for good can be immense in shaping consciousness of the past. — Antony Beevor Copy Share Image
The law reports in newspapers contain perhaps the only real history of England that has any relation to truth. — Robert Baldwin Ross Copy Share Image
If those people in power never made any mistakes, we'd be done for as a democracy. But people keep making mistakes. History… — Zephyr Teachout Copy Share Image