Give me one other part of history where everybody shows up to the same social space. Fragmentation is a more natural state… — danah boyd Copy Share Image
Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and… — Carter G. Woodson Copy Share Image
Birds, it must be admitted, are the most exciting and most deserving of the vertebrates; they are perhaps the best entre into… — Roger Tory Peterson Copy Share Image
As far as I'm concerned, the 20th century was performance-driven, but for some reason, the critics and historians didn't know how to… — Roselee Goldberg Copy Share Image
Even as a child, even as my blood-past was drained from me, I understood that if I were strong enough to accept… — Anne Michaels Copy Share Image
The institution of chivalry forms one of the most remarkable features in the history of the Middle Ages. — Horatio Alger Copy Share Image
I like to know what the gestation of the idea is, I like to know the foundation, and I do a lot… — Kieran Bew Copy Share Image
In all the history of the boxing game, you'll find no human interest story to compare with the life narrative of James… — Damon Runyon Copy Share Image
“Bear in mind, practice is more important than principle. Principles without practice is worthless. Humans of principles may get famous for a… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
I attended classes and taught classes, in Food Anthropology at Pace University, with an anthropology professor. You can trace history by the… — Lidia Bastianich Copy Share Image
scarcely a human being in the course of history has fallen to a woman's rifle; the vast majority of birds and beasts… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The chimpanzee and the human share about 99.5 percent of their evolutionary history, yet most human thinkers regard the chimp as a… — Robert Trivers Copy Share Image
In place of the old beliefs of a civilization based on godliness, judgment and historical loyalty, young people are given the new… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
It is merely an accident of history that it is considered normal in our society to believe that the Creator of the… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Great clubs have had one thing in common throughout history, regardless of era and tactics. They owned the pitch and they owned… — Arrigo Sacchi Copy Share Image
There are those who regard this history of past strife and exile as better forgotten. But, to use the phrase of Yeats,… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
It is up to us, to everyone at Celtic Park, to build up our own legends. We don't want to live with… — Jock Stein Copy Share Image
There's already a lot of self-exculpatory history being written. Right across the board. And it's my task to make sure that such… — Eric Reeves Copy Share Image
In the real world, nothing happens at the right place at the right time. It is the job of journalists and historians… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Of compelling consideration is the fact that words acquire scope and function from the history of events which they summarize. — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share Image
“This was the moment when history held its breath, and the present sheared asunder from the past as an iceberg splits from… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
“We are not designed to deal with the many stress-inducing situations of the twenty-first century. For most of human history, the stressors… — Jed Diamond Copy Share Image
We usually break the story first. For instance, on The Monuments Men, and this one is more complicated because there's a lot… — Grant Heslov Copy Share Image
The Negro League had some of the best players in history. Satchel Paige was probably one of the best pitchers in the… — Mark Kurlansky Copy Share Image
I'm the treasurer of the state of Ohio, where, when the United States credit rating was downgraded for the first time in… — Josh Mandel Copy Share Image
I think a Person who is thus terrified with the Imagination of Ghosts and Spectres much more reasonable, than one who contrary… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
“The Ark Encounter will help us do that in a powerful, non-threatening way by simply sharing the truth of God’s Word with… — Ken Ham Copy Share Image
After using the 'good offices' of UN diplomacy (economic sanctions and weapons inspections) to ensure that Iraq was brought to its knees,… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
I was living in a terrible time when people were being accused of being communists, and they attacked the movie industry, especially… — Kirk Douglas Copy Share Image
What are the facts? Again and again and again – what are the facts? Shun wishful thinking, ignore divine revelation, forget what… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
History has taught us: never underestimate the amount of money, time, and effort someone will expend to thwart a security system. It's… — Bruce Schneier Copy Share Image
This is in us: a certain sense of denial, a certain sense of groupthink. This is not something that sits on one… — Craig Mazin Copy Share Image
“There is only One Intelligence,and this Intelligence has a splendid track record in the history of our solar system, guiding each of… — Louise L. Hay Copy Share Image
The word 'Italy' is a geographical expression, a description which is useful shorthand, but has none of the political significance the efforts… — Klemens von Metternich Copy Share Image
“The Bible is a collection of stories and myths based on hearsay transmitted from generation to generation and which were recorded by… — Brian Baker Copy Share Image
It's an honor for me to close out Mysteryland. In American music history this is hallowed ground. I think electronic music has… — Kaskade Copy Share Image
Why do I write historical fiction? Johnny Tremain, The Witch of Blackbird Pond, Island of the Blue Dolphins-that's why. I'll never forget… — Jennifer Armstrong Copy Share Image
Historians of the future will find it incredible that we mutilated babies by cutting off the end of their penises in the… — Dean Edell Copy Share Image
This, of course, has no chance of passing. But then Tuesday night's State of the Union address could be the first one… — John Podhoretz Copy Share Image
“Historians often minimize or discount the impact that any one individual can have on human destiny-and for good reason. Given the broad… — Kevin Fedarko Copy Share Image
