Duke Ellington's career traces the entire history of jazz. The repertoire associated with him contains the most important elements in the music… — Billy Taylor Copy Share Image
“The idea that any one of our religions represents the infallible word of the One True God requires an encyclopedic ignorance of… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Never in the history of 'The Shield' was the word 'LAPD' ever mentioned. We would mention districts, like Wilshire and Hollenbeck and… — Kurt Sutter Copy Share Image
I have a cousin who is a spiritual advisor for Native veterans in Canada, so I'm very familiar with the history of… — Adam Beach Copy Share Image
I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something else -… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Good fiction is about asserting the beauties of the world, inventing a new, positive thing. Where am I going to get that?… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
Regarding Ronald Reagan: In point of fact, the image of Ronald Reagan, the man responsible for shaping that decade (the 1980s), should… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
That is the American story. People, just like you, following their passions, determined to meet the times on their own terms. They… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Few times in history do totalitarian or authoritarian regimes successfully repress their people for more than two generations, and zero times in… — Daniel Lubetzky Copy Share Image
“The heroic and often tragic stories of American whalemen were renowned. They sailed the world’s oceans and brought back tales filled with… — Eric Jay Dolin Copy Share Image
...let us recognize that extreme poverty anywhere is a threat to human security everywhere. Let us recall that poverty is a denial… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
“the world should ever return to barbarism and darkness, if instead of the constant progress for which we sometimes hope our hopes… — Charles Haddon Spurgeon Copy Share Image
The '80s were fabulous. The '90s sucked, and the '70s were just a sad, sad time in human history. Go 1980s! There's… — Jennifer Sky Copy Share Image
The most abundant hue in nature, the human eye sees more green than any other color in the spectrumas it has throughout… — Leatrice Eiseman Copy Share Image
With his back still to me Heath speaks up his voice sounding strange. He is still in his room. I pause for… — Jade Copy Share Image
A strange thing is memory, and hope; one looks backward, and the other forward; one is of today, the other of tomorrow.… — Grandma Moses Copy Share Image
Downloading and Web 2.0 have famously led to new ways of accessing culture. But these have tended to be parasitic on old… — Mark Fisher Copy Share Image
Not all that is presented to us as history has really happened; and what really happened did not actually happen the way… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The people who have impacted the world didn't live long. Martin Luther King. John F. Kennedy. These people who impact the world… — Myles Munroe Copy Share Image
“Chance and Destiny have between them woven two-thirds of all history, and of the history of Ireland wellnigh the whole. The literature… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
“The Jim Crow South,” writes Ira Katznelson, a history and political science professor at Columbia, “was the one collaborator America’s democracy could… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
The applause of his native land is the richest reward to which the patriot ever aspires. It is this for which 'he… — John Tyler Copy Share Image
“The creators of the Constitution were not purple-robed scholars, sitting in their ivory towers attempting to put abstract theories into play, but… — C.L. Gammon Copy Share Image
It would be naïve to think that peace and justice can be achieved easily. No set of rules or study of history… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
Removing Donald Sterling from the NBA solves nothing. It sets a precedent that will likely boomerang and harm the black players and… — Jason Whitlock Copy Share Image
Here in the United States, when the term "fascist" gets used, it's either talking about other countries, ancient history or it's used… — Rachel Maddow Copy Share Image
“Truth is, I don't know. I don't know... what I'm doing. Or why I'm doing it," he said. Which was the worst… — Megan Miranda Copy Share Image
We know enough of our own history by now to be aware that people exploit what they have merely concluded to be… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“I said you weren’t inconsequential. No one is. We change at least one person’s life just by being born. If you don’t… — Samantha Sotto Copy Share Image
I can no more explain why I like "natural history" than why I like California canned peaches; nor why I do not… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The occurrence of successive forms of life upon our globe is an historical fact, which cannot be disputed; and the relation of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Julia’s attitude toward British food—that it was inedible, that it had little relevant history apart from being inedible, and that a more… — Laura Shapiro Copy Share Image
The areas in which I teach are working-class history and African-American Studies and at its best the critical study of whiteness often… — David Roediger Copy Share Image
If the day should ever come when we must go, if some day we are compelled to leave the scene of history,… — Joseph Goebbels Copy Share Image
“If you are a member of a religion which has violence, killings and invading other countries in its history, it is a… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
So we've done science songs. We've done historical songs. A lot of people would like us to do more historical songs. Our… — John Flansburgh Copy Share Image
You need the past as a guideline. The history of music is a good basis, but to escape that stuff, that tortuous… — John Lydon Copy Share Image
Barca because of its history is already attractive, the club's aspirations every season make it attractive, and there were players who wanted… — Joan Laporta Copy Share Image
Every February, we celebrate the heritage and contributions of African Americans in North Carolina and around the country. North Carolina holds an… — Roy Cooper Copy Share Image
“The relationship between a dog and a human is always complicated. The two know each other in a way nobody else quite… — Jon Katz Copy Share Image
