I might be the most injured athlete in the history of sports. I've had 31 operations. An endless string of stress fractures. — Bill Walton Copy Share Image
A thousand years of uninterrupted British sovereignty has taught us one thing. If change isn't allowed to be a process, it becomes… — Penny Mordaunt Copy Share Image
Imagine a part of the U.S.A., from which the U.S.A. started - where is the cradle of your history? This is Kosovo… — Novak Djokovic Copy Share Image
There's always some kind of blacklist throughout history. But the difference is, in America they usually let you live. — Rip Torn Copy Share Image
Marriage is a core institution of societies throughout the world and throughout history. Its something that has provided permanence and stability for… — David Vitter Copy Share Image
Future historians trying to determine what it was like to be alive in fin de millennium America should read the last two… — Gary Krist Copy Share Image
Recent history is the record of one vast conspiracy to impose one level of mechanical consciousness on mankind. — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
But the BBC has made a big push to get women historians such as Amanda Vickery, Mary Beard and Bettany Hughes on… — Lucy Worsley Copy Share Image
Growing up, I heard a lot about strength. My dad - a Holocaust survivor - embodied it, though he would never say… — Daniel Lubetzky Copy Share Image
On one hand you have a string quartet, which is not a symphony. On the other hand is you have me sampling… — DJ Spooky Copy Share Image
In strategy the longest way round is often the shortest way there- a direct approach to the object exhausts the attacker and… — B. H. Liddell Hart Copy Share Image
Revisionist historians are about to get their hands on the Thatcher years, shes probably going to be looked at again because she… — Jonathan Coe Copy Share Image
“this is the crime of which I accuse my country and my countrymen, and for which neither I nor time nor history… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
Exploration belongs to the Renaissance, travel to the bourgeois age, tourism to our proletarian moment.The explorer seeks theundiscovered, the traveler that which… — Paul Fussell Copy Share Image
St Andrews is one of those places where you can be the only person around but you feel like people are watching… — Justin Rose Copy Share Image
The meaning of geography is as much a sealed book to the person of ordinary intelligence and education as the meaning of… — William Morris Davis Copy Share Image
I don't really have a historical overview of my work at all. I'm not an art historian. I don't see that there's… — Howard Hodgkin Copy Share Image
Puerto Rico is complicated. The people are complicated. The history is complicated. The story of the United States' relationship to Puerto Rico… — W. Kamau Bell Copy Share Image
I am of the opinion that there is more high-quality television being produced than at any time in the history of television. — Michael Schur Copy Share Image
“The castle will seem very quiet and strange without you here. The stone stairs and the chapel will miss your footstep, the… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
The study of history requires investigation, imagination, empathy, and respect. Reverence just doesnt enter into it. — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
As Members of Congress and people of conscience, we must work to overcome the indifference and distortions of history, and ensure that… — Jerry Costello Copy Share Image
“We are mosaics - pieces of light, love, history, stars -- glued together with magic and music and words.” — Anita Krishan Copy Share Image
I don't fly any awards at the house. Any award you get is usually for something you've done in the past. And… — Garth Brooks Copy Share Image
Activists measure progress against the standard of perfection, or at least the most perfect possible choice. Historians gauge progress against what came… — Jonathan Chait Copy Share Image
Government schooling is the most radical adventure in history. It kills the family by monopolizing the best times of childhood and by… — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
I shall cheerfully bear the reproach of having descended below the dignity of history if I can succeed in placing before the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“That you are a born again Christian does not mean you will automatically succeed except you follow God's principles. Never forget faith… — Patience Johnson Copy Share Image
“We’re the first generation, the only generation as far as we know, in the whole history of the White Knight Empire to… — Tim C. Taylor Copy Share Image
“That,’ said Benny, ‘is about as convincing an argument as the works of those historians who claim there was a fifth Teletubby.” — Justin Richards Copy Share Image
“I thought: This is not good. I though: I am not bad at kissing. Not at bad at all. I thought: I… — John Green Copy Share Image
I believe that the supreme duty of the historian is to write history, that is to say, to attempt to record in… — Steven Runciman Copy Share Image
For African-American people, I am in the business of inventing a reality that gives a different perspective - on history, on crime,… — John Edgar Wideman Copy Share Image
Most men have no purpose but to exist, Abraham; to pass quietly through history as minor characters upon a stage they cannot… — Seth Grahame-Smith Copy Share Image
“What is fact? What records did the church, in its misguided attempt to cleanse the past of perceived contradictions, rewrite to suit… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
Hillary Clinton has secured her place in history. She is the first woman to lead a major party's quest for the presidency. — Ari Shapiro Copy Share Image
“Who is this historian who can say that he's telling the whole truth and nothing but the whole truth. Nobody, because you're… — Teodoro A. Agoncillo Copy Share Image
If you believe people have no history worth mentioning, it's easy to believe they have no humanity worth defending — William Loren Katz Copy Share Image
That's one thing I like to do before going in for a read - doing research once I actually have been granted… — Amanda Warren Copy Share Image
The public history of all countries, and all ages, is but a sort of mask, richly colored. The interior working of the… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
