The study of Nature brings into a harmonious whole the questions of the Infinite, the Historic, and the Microscopic as part of… — Robert Baden-Powell Copy Share Image
“Oh, it was 1775.” “What?” “1775. The Battle of Bunker Hill.” “Oh.” I laughed. “We learned about it the day we met,”… — J.M. Richards Copy Share Image
History, mythology, and folktales are filled with stories of people punished for saying the truth. Only the Fool, exempt from society's rules,… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
“Being broken isn't the worst thing. We can be mended and put together again. We don’t have to be ashamed of our… — Anna White Copy Share Image
As history has shown, pure science research ultimately ends up applying to something. We just don't know it at the time. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
We have a complete respect for history, we respect the experiences of other countries and we have our own, but the truth… — Alejandro Castro Espin Copy Share Image
When Eric Cantor lost, being the only majority leader in history to lose a primary, that was pretty - and still is… — Ken Cuccinelli Copy Share Image
In sum, U.S. history is no more violent and oppressive than the history of England, Russia, Indonesia, or Burundi - but neither… — James W. Loewen Copy Share Image
Agency is the power to think, choose, and act for ourselves. It comes with endless opportunities, accompanied by responsibility and consequences. It… — Sharon G. Larsen Copy Share Image
“It's all history out there, Clemens. Your history, my history. You and me, boy, not dates and things. You and me. That's… — David Wiseman Copy Share Image
I think publishing's strength is also its weakness. It's got such a rich and celebrated history as an industry. For the most… — Jennifer Gilmore Copy Share Image
Personally, my interest in social history ends around 1959, by which time I was an adolescent. I've always attributed this to my… — Laurie Graham Copy Share Image
People still knew me as Charles, so when I came across Charlemagne in a history book, that sounded good: Charles the Great,… — Charlamagne tha God Copy Share Image
“Never judge someone's character based on the words of another. Instead, study the motives behind the words of the person casting the… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
“Then I realized that the history of the world is largely a history of sustainable systems. Every so often a system comes… — Yudhanjaya Wijeratne Copy Share Image
Poetry carries its history within it, and it is oral in origin. Its transmission was oral. Its transmission today is still in… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
Nowhere, not at sea, does a man feel more lonely than when riding over the far-reaching, seemingly never-ending plains... — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
You bear the weight of the club's history on your shoulders, and you only become a true Red Devil once you understand… — Patrice Evra Copy Share Image
“The whole scene made Dan think of American history tests, which were almost as scary as exploding museums.” — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
The cross symbolizes a cosmic as well as historic truth. Love conquers the world, but its victory is not an easy one. — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
Only those who play win.Only those who risk win. History favors risk-takers. Forgets the timid. Everything else is commentary. — Iveta Cherneva Copy Share Image
“public park along the Merrimack River in the center of the historic downtown, voted unanimously to pay a private animal control agent… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
History is fickle. We know that. The good and bad come around and go around, and go around again. There are recessions… — Rachel Nichols Copy Share Image
Delving into history is not an escape for me. I'm like a detective, sniffing for clues with a terrier-like excitement. — David Starkey Copy Share Image
Our task is not to leave a record of what happened on this date for those who will inherit the Earth; history… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Art historical reference is like learning to drive a car - you always know how to drive even though you're not analysing… — Cornelia Parker Copy Share Image
Once you choose to run for president of the United States and succeed, your earlier life, your biography, is a major part… — David Garrow Copy Share Image
The only event in the history of our species that compares with this one is Genesis. And this is a new kind… — Gary Zukav Copy Share Image
“If it is the will of God for man to be sick, no one in history violated the will of God more… — Praying Medic Copy Share Image
What blinds us, or what makes historical progress very difficult, is our lack of awareness of our ignorance. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
What I'm interested in is the conversations going on about the Anthropocene and what it means to view ourselves as a part… — David Grinspoon Copy Share Image
Historical! Must it be historical to catch your attention? Even though historicity, like notoriety, denotes nothing more than thatsomething has occurred. — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
One has to understand what the enemy is all about: the enemy's history, the enemy's culture, the enemy's aspirations. If you understand… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
Because the acts or events of true history have not that magnitude which satisfieth the mind of man, poesy feigneth acts and… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
“History is a kind of introduction to more interesting people than we can possibly meet in our restricted lives” — Dexter Perkins Copy Share Image
“Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon. It is a weapon unique in history, which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man… — Martin Luther King Jr Copy Share Image
“So, interpretation must proceed wholly by fitting those authors into their social and historical environments. Anything else is alleged to be a… — Peter A. Lillback Copy Share Image
History is written by the victors--and when there is no victors, it all winds up in the corporate shredders. — Neal Shusterman Copy Share Image
Roll up your sleeves, set your mind to making history, and wage such a fight for liberty that the whole world will… — Carrie Chapman Catt Copy Share Image
Whether history will judge this war to be different or not we cannot say. But this we can say with certainty: A… — Henry Steele Commager Copy Share Image
