The East is marvellously interesting for tracing our steps back. But for going forward, it is nothing. All it can hope for… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Some people perceive 'Ghost Adventures' to just be a ghost show on TV, but things are getting very serious, and we are… — Zak Bagans Copy Share Image
“History isn't all fact--it's just the story the victors tell to keep themselves in power. And it's been a slow revision. The… — Heather Anastasiu Copy Share Image
Literature makes history come to life. It is maybe the most accurate depiction of history, especially literature that was written in the… — Amy Harmon Copy Share Image
In all the areas within which the spiritual life of humanity is at work, the historical epoch wherein fate has placed us… — Edmund Husserl Copy Share Image
I think I regard any history in quotes, because just like science, we're constantly revising science, we're constantly revising history. — David S. Goyer Copy Share Image
There are a lot of very brilliant people who believe that the nation-state is fast becoming a relic of the past, — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
The fourth landing of the Columbia is the historical equivalent of the driving of the golden spike which completed the first transcontinental… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
I actually started working in Chicago while I was still a student; I did the Chicago premiere of 'The History Boys' at… — Alex Weisman Copy Share Image
There are a lot of problems involved in comparative history. You never know if you're getting the comparisons weighted rightly, you're bound… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For the best part of my childhood I visited the local library three or four times a week, hunching in the stacks… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
John Adams and Thomas Jefferson were political enemies, but they became fast friends. And when they passed away on the same day,… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
Jane Austen has often been praised as a natural historian. She is a naturalist among tame animals. She does not study men… — Robert Wilson Lynd Copy Share Image
I am a taxonomist, I work in the descriptive, narrative sciences of natural history. Unfortunately there is this status ordering from physics,… — Richard Lewontin Copy Share Image
If you want to avoid criticism, then you shouldn't be a historian, because historians are trying to understand and explain. If you're… — Timothy D. Snyder Copy Share Image
“The master of the house was an elf-friend—one of those people whose fathers came into the strange stories before the beginning of… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“History is important because it teaches us about the past. And bylearning about the past, you come to understand the present, so… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
I have had this longstanding interest in going back to school to get a Ph.D. in art history. I was especially interested… — Jandy Nelson Copy Share Image
At times in life you need to walk the oceans just to claim back what's yours, and live the history of what… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Maybe it is not just social history - the belt buckles and soup ladles - that connects us to the past, but… — Bettany Hughes Copy Share Image
Perhaps more than English or history, STEM subjects require an enormous amount of foundational learning before students can become competent. — Priyamvada Natarajan Copy Share Image
Perhaps history is a thing that would stop happening if God held His breath, or could be imagined as turning away to… — Herbert Butterfield Copy Share Image
History is only a tiresome repetition of one story. Persons and classes have sought to win possession of the power of the… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
Outside sleep's open window, between the drops of rain, history is writing a recipe book for every earthly pain. — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
“History may well be written by the victors, but victors change and if we do not unwrite history then the propaganda from… — Gordon White Copy Share Image
Chicago is complicated and complex and very violent but also very rich with history and tradition and art and culture - it's… — Vic Mensa Copy Share Image
Everybody needs history but the people who need it most are poor folks - people without resources or options. — Henry Hampton Copy Share Image
Every year, Black History Month presents an opportunity to honor the legacy, contributions, and rich history of Black Americans and how they… — Laphonza Butler Copy Share Image
“I am, at this moment, what I have always been to him: an object of beauty. He has never loved me as… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
Are we amateurs and not professionals? We know the lessons of history, we know the mistakes and we either act accordingly or… — Thomas S. Power Copy Share Image
History is not our guide, it is not our friend. It is a passing stranger, one which shadows legend, sprinkling it with… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Those who don’t know history may be bound to repeat it. But even people who know it may follow the same fate… — Yanko Tsvetkov Copy Share Image
So I have cultivated the vast garden of human experience which is history, without troubling myself overmuch about laws, essential first causes,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“As the historian Jocelyn Penny Small pointed out, GODISNOWHERE comes out a lot differently when rendered as GOD IS NOW HERE versus… — Joshua Foer Copy Share Image
To delve into history entails, besides the grievance of hard work, the danger that in the depths one may lose one’s scapegoats. — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
If journalism is the first draft of history, then the Internet simply has provided a new means for delivering that draft far… — Tom Daschle Copy Share Image
I live off a motto that says, 'yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery'. I have goals and agendas. Where ever I'll… — Vanilla Ice Copy Share Image
History is wonderful. We have so much we can learn if we would quit making ideology out of history, and just deal… — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
The history of God's people is not a record of God searching for courageous men and women who could handle the task,… — Erwin McManus Copy Share Image
Better still - your history has shown how powerful a moral catharsis expressed through popular resistance to injustice can sometimes be; I… — Breyten Breytenbach Copy Share Image
