These people have history and I crave history. I crave someone knowing me so well that they can tell what I'm thinking.… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
“…those were the subjects that Barber dealt with as a historian, and no matter how scrupulous and profession he was in treating… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“The facts with which I shall deal this evening are mainly old and familiar; nor is there anything new in the general… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
If you look at history, even recent history, you see that there is indeed progress. . . . Over time, the cycle… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Bush won the largest popular vote in history with a 3.5 million margin. Indeed, simply by getting a majority of the country… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
Throughout all of human history we have consumed the natural world. All creatures do. Birds do. Fish do. Earthworms do. We consume… — Sylvia Earle Copy Share Image
At the end of the day, 'Shuffle Along' is about people coming together and making something extraordinary - and history not necessarily… — George C. Wolfe Copy Share Image
I don't spend any time thinking about my place in history, ever. If people say I changed things, it's nice, and I… — Russell Simmons Copy Share Image
I had carefully read the Balfour Declaration. I had familiarized myself with the history of the question of a Jewish homeland and… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
“It means the liberation of one half of humankind, which would make its voice heard, challenging, for the first time in history,… — Carla Lonzi Copy Share Image
There is so much each one of us can do to make a difference. We are at a dangerous juncture in the… — Bianca Jagger Copy Share Image
Over the objections, where they sound like squealing pigs, over the objections of Romney and all his allies, we passed some of… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
For much of history it was possible to believe that the great diversity of life on Earth was a fixed creation, that… — Kenneth R. Miller Copy Share Image
Anyone can tell you that how you're raised as a child has a great deal to do with how you behave as… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
So many of the things we are doing right now as a country are things that lead to loss of a country.… — Louie Gohmert Copy Share Image
In terms of preparation, if there's some historical context that's needed, I do like to read a lot. Working on Joe Kennedy… — Matt Letscher Copy Share Image
We know from our own history, and that of our neighbors, that where conflicts and disagreements are not resolved peacefully, the suffering… — Mwai Kibaki Copy Share Image
Christianity affirms that at the heart of reality is a Heart, a loving Father who works through history for the salvation of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
All history is only one long story to this effect: men have struggled for power over their fellow-men in order that they… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
What dependence can I have on the alleged events of ancient history, when I find such difficulty in ascertaining the truth regarding… — Walter Raleigh Copy Share Image
History happened, but yet we quarrel over this so much we're in war about what happened yesterday. We seem to hold onto… — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
This is really what the White House is all about. It’s the “People’s House.” It’s a place that is steeped in history,… — Michelle Obama Copy Share Image
The events which transpired five thousand years ago; Five years ago or five minutes ago, have determined what will happen five minutes… — Dr. John Copy Share Image
“In the end the war was Hitler's war. It was not perhaps the war he wanted. But it was the war he… — Donald Cameron Watt Copy Share Image
Obama was quite serious when he said he was going to change the world. And now he has a national crisis, a… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
Fascism was part of the absolute evil. (...) We have to denounce the ashaming pages in the history of our past. (...)… — Gianfranco Fini Copy Share Image
“My mother, who would always buy her books new, hated it the vintage hardcovers with their cracked spines and threadbare cloth covers.… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Until the company believes in itself, AOL didn't have its own space and identity in the marketplace. The opportunity is to get… — Tim Armstrong Copy Share Image
I think that great poetry is the most interesting and complex use of the poet's language at that point in history, and… — Diane Wakoski Copy Share Image
Storytelling is how history is passed. It's what our ancestors did, it's what everybody's done. It has to come back into a… — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
To say that historical conditions made personal life possible, and with it the self-consciousness that allowed psychoanalysis to emerge, is to tell… — Ellen Willis Copy Share Image
We're talking about, essentially, the Roman historians, who wrote Cleopatra into the story mostly so that they could talk about the rise… — Stacy Schiff Copy Share Image
There comes a time, there comes a time in the history of nations when fear and complacency allow power to accumulate and… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
“It wasn't that he was a Confederate. Everyone in Gatlin County was related to the wrong side in the War Between the… — Kami Garcia Copy Share Image
I am thankful the most important key in history was invented. It's not the key to your house, your car, your boat,… — Elayne Boosler Copy Share Image
This concern for the poor is in the Gospel, it is within the tradition of the Church, it is not an invention… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
My first two kids were born in New York City, but there is a lot of exploration to be done just learning… — Steven Rinella Copy Share Image
I'm not going to say that the other people I worked with weren't artist. They were all very great, very talented people,… — Charlie Day Copy Share Image
Historians are left forever chasing shadows, painfully aware of their inability ever to reconstruct a dead world in its completeness however thorough… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
“What is the historical context in which the Psalter was compiled? What difference do the psalm titles make to canonical interpretation? How… — Anonymous Copy Share Image