“What I find most mystifying in the arguments of the authors I have mentioned, and of others like them, is the strange… — David Bentley Hart Copy Share Image
At certain historic moments, grandparents took on childrearing responsibilities. In many cultures, they still do. Chinese grandparents who are able to retire… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
“Postmodernism involves the loss of any hope that some larger-than-human force—be it God or History or Progress or Science or Reason—is going… — Heath White Copy Share Image
“Write as many books as you want, but remember that literature is never about quantity. Even the most popular works fade into… — Mouloud Benzadi Copy Share Image
Perhaps the most telling witness against the claim of accurate history for the Bible comes when we read the earliest narrative of… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
Beyond [Barack Obama] having made history as the first African-American president, I hope that he gets re-elected for what he does while… — Lenny Kravitz Copy Share Image
“There are heroes and, emphatically, heroines enough in this history. Yielding to the temptation to focus on their courage, however, may miss… — Charles Payne Copy Share Image
“I cannot see the war as historians see it. Those clever fellows study all the facts and they see the war as… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
“For the first phase of American history, “hope was chiefly expressed through a Christian story that gave meaning to suffering and pleasure… — Timothy J. Keller Copy Share Image
“To study history means to watch the spinning and unravelling of these webs, and to realise that what seems to people in… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
History is a great painter, with the world for canvas, and life for a figure. It exhibits man in his pride, and… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story,… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
I suppose, in the end, we journalists try - or should try - to be the first impartial witnesses of history. If… — Robert Fisk Copy Share Image
For centuries, the Yangtze River - the longest in Asia - has played an important role in China's history, culture, and economy.… — Rebecca MacKinnon Copy Share Image
It was Muddy Waters who took the Delta blues north to Chicago, electrified the sound, and changed the course of popular music… — Tim Cahill Copy Share Image
Ronald Reagan was long thought to be the most conservative of Republicans. And by any standard today he is the most popular… — Mark McKinnon Copy Share Image
Alas! In vain historians pry and probe: The same wind blows, and in the same live robe Truth bends her head to… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
It's a struggle every day, to stay present, not to become that...eight year old who was bullied and chased home from school.… — Laverne Cox Copy Share Image
There are a whole lot of historical factors that have played a part in our being where we are today, and I… — Wilma Mankiller Copy Share Image
In Paris, there has to be a presence. History becomes the most interesting when it's compared to the present. I mean there's… — Thom Mayne Copy Share Image
Quite often in history action has been the echo of words. An era of talk was followed by an era of events.… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
“You make no sense! You went somewhere to discover your place in history? How can that be? History is what is done… — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
I think that that multiplatform development is what's on the mind of most high-end PC developers now... this is really the first… — Mike Wilson Copy Share Image
In all of the history of mankind there has never been a time when we have had a greater opportunity to increase… — L. Tom Perry Copy Share Image
“How do you build a history based on ceaseless self-slaughter and betrayal? Do you deny it? Forget it? But then you are… — Peter Pomerantsev Copy Share Image
“In one sense our campus is a topographical map of Nike's history and growth; in another it's a diorama of my life.… — Phil Knight Copy Share Image
I wouldn't even go into the history of the last days of the Soviet Union, the withdrawal from Europe, and what promises… — Sergei Lavrov Copy Share Image
As both a student of history and a man devoted to living in the present, I admit that I do not spend… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
“In History, stagnant waters, whether they be stagnant waters of custom or those of despotism, harbour no life; life is dependent on… — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
The history of jazz lets us know that this period in our history is not the only period we've come through together.… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
“There is a camaraderie that grows up among those who work with old books and old papers, largely, I suspect, because we… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
“Racial hatred in America still exists but never was it anything like the time immediately after the Civil War. The western history… — William Silverman Copy Share Image
“We should not be impressed when our leaders say firmly, "History teaches us" or "History will show that we were right." They… — Margaret MacMillan Copy Share Image
I have to bring to your notice a terrifying reality: with the development of nuclear weapons Man has acquired, for the first… — Joseph Rotblat Copy Share Image
I think what's so interesting for me is the different roles that I play. I love doing the research, and I love… — Kim Raver Copy Share Image
“Then to give the kids a historical perspective, Chacko told them about the earth woman. He made them imagine that the earth… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
“I’m not writing a book of Western history,' I tell him. 'I’ve written enough history books to know this isn’t one. I’m… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
“One of the major problems encountered in time travel is not that of becoming your own father or mother. There is no… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Rulers, Statesmen, Nations, are wont to be emphatically commended to the teaching which experience offers in history. But what experience and history… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
A mind devoid of prepossessions is likely to be devoid of all mental furniture. And the historian who thinks that he can… — Allen Johnson Copy Share Image