“Don’t you have a class this morning, Georgie?” Day mumbled something that sounded like “Ancient History of the Near East and Greece.”… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
I try to be as faithful as possible to the facts as I understand them, but any story is at least partly… — Jason Lutes Copy Share Image
There remains an experience of incomparable value . . . to see the great events of world history from below; from the… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
I was born in England and went to school there. That's when I discovered my undying passion for history - not just… — Virginia Henley Copy Share Image
Furthermore, the study of the present surroundings is insufficient: the history of the people, the influence of the regions through which it… — Franz Boas Copy Share Image
“Education continued to come under particularly strong fire...: If women learned how to manage in the world as well as men, if… — Lillian Faderman Copy Share Image
China has been on a historic commodities binge as it doubled the size of its economy in recent years to become one… — Kelly Evans Copy Share Image
As it can be maintained that all the great advances have come from men under forty, so the history of the world… — William Osler Copy Share Image
When I was growing up I loved reading historical fiction, but too often it was about males; or, if it was about… — Kathryn Lasky Copy Share Image
On the subject of the history of the American Revolution, you ask who shall write it? Who can write it? And who… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“To be honest, the future doesn’t look too bright. You were born at a pretty crappy time in history. And it looks… — Ernest Cline Copy Share Image
The perpetual stream of human nature is formed into ever-changing shallows, eddies, falls and pools by the land over which it passes.… — Mary Renault Copy Share Image
My intention, certainly, is to create something which is aesthetic but many things are implicit in the work that I do. For… — Graciela Iturbide Copy Share Image
We were surrounded by influences and interests that came between Stephen and me. The nurse who became his wife was seeking to… — Jane Hawking Copy Share Image
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It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for… — Robert Francis Kennedy Copy Share Image
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“And does history repeat itself, the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce?No, that’s too grand, too considered a process.… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
I'm not all dolled up. We tried to keep it as real as we could. We're telling you something that happened. It's… — Michel'le Copy Share Image
Their humble dwellings were of their own rearing; it was they themselves who had broken in their little fields; from time immemorial,… — Hugh Miller Copy Share Image
What frustrated me was the thought that with three thousand years of history someone in China, some monk in a monastery halfway… — Ben Aaronovitch Copy Share Image
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We are inescapably the result of a long heritage of learning, adaptation, mutation and evolution, the product of a history which predates… — Fred Hoyle Copy Share Image
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History fades into fable; fact becomes clouded with doubt and controversy; the inscription molders from the tablet: the statue falls from the… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
I've always felt that the poems I've written which have historical context are hopefully not just simply plucking something out of history… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
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“Alas, my child,’ he said, ‘human knowledge is very limited and when I have taught you mathematics, physics, history and the three… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
I am a lay historian by nature. I seek out an empirical reflection of what truth is. I sort of want dates… — Tom Hanks Copy Share Image
Walt Disney’s Mickey Mouse... by Floyd Gottfredson will be warmly received by comics aficionados but should also intrigue Disney animation buffs who… — Leonard Maltin Copy Share Image
“Isn't forgiveness a holy virtue? And if so, then why do we insist on keeping historical records of resentment? Is the Creator… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
If democracy were to be given any meaning, if it were to go beyond the limits of capitalism and nationalism, this would… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
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