Barcelona is a very old city in which you can feel the weight of history; it is haunted by history. You cannot… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
“Don’t carry the world around or your history around like a burden. In fact, don’t carry it around at all. One step… — Art Hochberg Copy Share Image
Our country vanished from the map of Europe after the attack of the Soviet Union against Poland. That is our history. It… — Andrzej Duda Copy Share Image
“At this point, I see the unfortunate recipient of this impromptu history lecture begin to doze and I move on to my… — Tom Parker Bowles Copy Share Image
“The advance of knowledge deludes us into thinking we are different from other animals, but our history shows that we are not.” — John N. Gray Copy Share Image
I'm not the best player in the history of tennis. I think I'm amongst the best. That's true. That's enough for me. — Rafael Nadal Copy Share Image
“So there existed fathers who dealt in the present, who didn't drag ancient history around like a ball and chain. So there… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
To picture world history as advancing smoothly and steadily without sometimes taking gigantic strides backward is undialectical, unscientific and theoretically wrong. — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
When you realize that your history books and your science books and your literature books are not the result of experts sitting… — Diane Ravitch Copy Share Image
I'm interested in dissecting the manipulative qualities that always come when you combine sound with images. We have seen this exploited to… — Josephine Meckseper Copy Share Image
I was among the people in the Superdome. I knew what was going on every minute. I did not have air conditioning… — Ray Nagin Copy Share Image
I joined a gym recently. I don't have the best history in the world of sticking with my fitness regimens, but I… — Christian Finnegan Copy Share Image
“We cannot erase the past, but we can accept it as history. We can choose to live today free from the failures… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I sort of mind living in a time when most of the literature is terribly personal. I suppose it's because I grew… — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
“Being really good at something you shouldn't be doing doesn't make it any better," Mom said. "It's a history class," I said,… — Dan Wells Copy Share Image
I think deep down, this planet yearns for the days of the British Empire again. They long once more to be treated… — John Oliver Copy Share Image
“True complexity can only be understood through history, not by looking at the present state of some seemingly complicated construct.” — E.M. Foner Copy Share Image
throughout human history people have scarred, painted, pierced, padded, stiffened, plucked, and buffed their bodies in the name of beauty. — Nancy Etcoff Copy Share Image
For the first time in history we can work backward from our imagination rather than forward from our past. — Gary Hamel Copy Share Image
History and experience show that lumbering monopolies mired in red tape and bureaucratic inertia cannot deliver the breakthrough technological advancements that hungry… — Lina Khan Copy Share Image
Being a woman has always been a powerful thing, where history has sometimes dictated otherwise, but I believe that a woman can… — Jessica Chastain Copy Share Image
I have begun the 'History of England' by Mr. Hume. It seems to me very interesting, though it is necessary to recollect… — Marie Antoinette Copy Share Image
White men in North America are the beneficiaries of the single biggest affirmative action program in world history. It's called world history. — Michael Kimmel Copy Share Image
It's an engrossing look at the way the flow of information shapes history-as well as a rare glimpse into the soul of… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
“I am not a properly trained historian. I am a lawyer by trade, and an inquisitive, practical woman by character.” — Liza Picard Copy Share Image
“Thomas à Kempis lived in the fifteenth century. His classic work, entitled The Imitation of Christ, has been one of the most… — David Timms Copy Share Image
Just like what Nazi Germany did to the Jews, so liberal America is now doing to the evangelical Christians. It's no different...… — Pat Robertson Copy Share Image
The rights of Englishmen are derived from God, not from king or Parliament, and would be secured by the study of history,… — John Adams Copy Share Image
It is not often that nations learn from the past,even rarer that they draw the correct conclusions from it. — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
It's still funny for me to think of myself as someone who writes historical fiction because it seems like a really fusty,… — Susan Choi Copy Share Image
France is delighted at this new opportunity to show the world that when one has the will one canI have worked with… — Francois Mitterrand Copy Share Image
I have written too much history to have faith in it; and if anyone thinks I'm wrong, I am inclined to agree… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
Books tap the wisdom of our species -- the greatest minds, the best teachers -- from all over the world and from… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Nothing like being with people you’ve known almost your entire life. Having a shared history is something you just can’t create with… — Jane Green Copy Share Image
History, we know, is apt to repeat itself, and to foist very old incidents upon us with only a slight change of… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I dare hope that all the peoples who have lived through communism will understand that communism is to blame for the bitter… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
In the past few decades, Earth's natural systems have endured more pressure than in all preceding human history. — Sylvia Earle Copy Share Image
“There’s no record in the history of the Galaxy of any society being so foolish as to use nuclear explosions as a… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Mandela has played a crucial part in history. He's done some extraordinary things, not only for his country but also for the… — Zinedine Zidane Copy Share Image
“It seems that, once introduced into public life, evil easily perpetuates itself, whereas good is always difficult, rare, and fragile. And yet… — Tzvetan Todorov Copy Share Image
