There is only one history of any importance, and it is the history of what you once believed in, and the history… — Kay Boyle Copy Share Image
We always need to remember that behind almost every great moment in history, there are heroic people doing really boring and frustrating… — Gail Collins Copy Share Image
As far as we can look back into history, the downfall of any nation can be traced from the moment that nation… — Frederick Russell Burnham Copy Share Image
Records can ruin you. That's why it's important to be as intimately familiar as possible with the history of recorded music, I… — Keith Fullerton Whitman Copy Share Image
Art is the suitcase of history, carrying the essentials. Art is the life buoy of history. Art is seed, art is memory,… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
Being a broadcaster encompasses the business of sport, which is my life today, and it encompasses the skills of being a history… — Bill Walton Copy Share Image
Australia's treatment of her Aboriginal people will be the thing on which the world will judge Australia and Australians - Not just… — Gough Whitlam Copy Share Image
Globalization ... is the most important change in the history of mankind, and often just the latest name for the conspiracy of… — Anita Roddick Copy Share Image
“One in eight Cambodians – as many as 2 million people – were killed during the Khmer Rouge’s campaign to eradicate their… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
“Lamb & Flag 33 Rose St, Covent Garden, WC2E 9EB Lamb & Flag is an old London pub with a long history… — Elizabeth Westwood Copy Share Image
“As the historian Edward Grant explained, 'It is indisputable that modern science emerged in the seventeenth century in Western Europe and nowhere… — Rodney Stark Copy Share Image
“The direction of a big act will warp history, but probably all acts do the same in their degree, down to a… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Moved by the need for control, for an unchallenged top tier, the power elite in American history has thrived by placating the… — Nancy Isenberg Copy Share Image
“To quote Gary Taubes, “In fact, we can define this mild ketosis as the normal state of human metabolism when we’re not… — David Perlmutter Copy Share Image
Art is not ideology. It is completely impossible to explain art on the basis of the homological relation that it is supposed… — Alain Badiou Copy Share Image
“The willingness to undertake such action cannot be based on certainties, but on those possibilities glimpsed in a reading of history different… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
While history has its limitations in shaping contemporaneous and forward-looking strategic choices, it does shape popular perceptions. — Sanjaya Baru Copy Share Image
The highest percentage of African Americans own their own homes today than ever in our nation's history. — Ed Gillespie Copy Share Image
“In the business of scholarship, evidence is far more flexible than opinion. The prevailing view of the past is controlled not by… — Hugh Nibley Copy Share Image
I grew up around books - my grandmother's house, where I lived as a small child, was full of books. My father… — John Irving Copy Share Image
“It reinforced my sense of what was important—creating great things instead of making money, putting things back into the stream of history… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
Sometimes in the history of art it is possible to describe a period or a generation of artists as having been obsessed… — Alfred H. Barr, Jr Copy Share Image
There are singular moments in history, dates that divide all that goes before from all that comes after. — George H. W. Bush Copy Share Image
India has left a deeper mark upon the history the philosophy and the religion of mankind than any other terrestrial unit in… — George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston Copy Share Image
Revolution, in order to be creative, cannot do without either a moral or metaphysical rule to balance the insanity of history. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
It is unfortunate that so much of the history of Africa has been written by conquerors, foreigners, missionaries and adventurers. The Egyptians… — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
Revisionism is a healthy historiographical process, and no one, not even revisionists, should be exempt from it. — John Lewis Gaddis Copy Share Image
We believe that the history of the world is but the history of His influence and that the center of the whole… — Alexander MacLaren Copy Share Image
When you go back and look at American history, it's not terribly different from Canadian history. If you weren't self-reliant on the… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
Since Eve negotiated Adam, I am the most disadvantaged negotiator in history of mankind. I have no army, no navy, no air… — Saeb Erekat Copy Share Image
For a long period of history, you were what people said about you, and if your reputation was stained, you were in… — James Lasdun Copy Share Image
America is the greatest nation in history, and I join all Tennesseans in supporting our country's continued strength and success. — Bill Hagerty Copy Share Image
“Love is the most abused word in history. It is, simply, caring more for others than you do for yourself.” — Jack L. Chalker Copy Share Image
It's funny, when you look back in history books or American cookery books, one of the reasons that the quinces and cranberries… — Alton Brown Copy Share Image
Yesterday, December seventh, 1941, a date which will live in infamy, the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by… — Franklin D Roosevelt Copy Share Image
No Christian and, indeed, no historian could accept the epigram which defines religion as 'what a man does with his solitude.' — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
No place is a place until things that have happened in it are remembered in history, ballads, yarns, legends, or monuments. Fictions… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
Im for the dreamers. The only really important things in history have been started by the dreamers. They never know what cant… — Bill Veeck Copy Share Image
“Individual identities and national destines were shaped by the tripod of history, geography, and philosophy.” — Patrick Mendis Copy Share Image
I believe no one can read the history of our country without realizing that the Good Book and the spirit of the… — Earl Warren Copy Share Image
