All the entertainment and talk of history is nothing almost but fighting and killing: and the honour and renown that is bestowed… — John Locke Copy Share Image
“To be such a complicated, myterious piece of biological machinery! That is a special thing, unprecedented in all of evolutionary history. Our… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
“In a period of less than 150 years, to progress from slavery to Pennsylvania Avenue speaks volumes about this family and our… — Megan Smolenyak Copy Share Image
Exact science and its practical movements are no checks on the greatest poet, but always his encouragement and support ... The sailor… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Young people have been educated and raised to believe that that aspect of our history disqualifies America from ever being anything that… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
“A lifetime spent in the study of the history of societies since the dawn of mankind presumably inclined him to skepticism and… — Francois Maspero Copy Share Image
Britain cannot afford to cut itself off from what is going on in the world, we are too interconnected with what is… — George Osborne Copy Share Image
History teaches us no race, no people, no nation has ever been freed through cowardice, through cringing, through bowing and scraping, but… — Marcus Garvey Copy Share Image
I've always liked Southeast Asia a lot. It's a wonderful place, an easy place. People are great, there's a lot of history… — Matt Dillon Copy Share Image
I consider myself extremely lucky to have been born and raised in London, and to have had on my doorstep this most… — Jean Plaidy Copy Share Image
“What are the qualities of human greatness that create history? Every time, if we think far enough, it is an ability to… — Jane Adams Copy Share Image
If you've been preached to, if you've been educated, if you've been raised to believe that America is the most racist, the… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
I think 'Mudbound' reveals the interconnectiveness of our stories. You can't separate out threads of history and race as economic construct. 'Mudbound'… — Dee Rees Copy Share Image
For Krishna to be such an international icon, so to speak, means there are various perspectives on him. Saints, philosophers and historians… — Shobana Copy Share Image
“ Hey,Alex." I composed the words in my head. " I have your book..." D'oh.I would be standing there, holding his book.… — Melissa Jensen Copy Share Image
I think of animals more as spirits that come and go. They enter our lives at a particular time and they leave… — Jon Katz Copy Share Image
There are things about organized religion which I resent. Christ is revered as the Prince of Peace, but more blood has been… — Frank Sinatra Copy Share Image
I think I've got a peculiar disease. I call it the curse of history, and it has to do with the fugitive… — Gilles Peress Copy Share Image
“With the willingness of Time-Life and a team of historians, forensic anthropologists, photographic experts, and cutting edge technology, the means are at… — Lawrence Verria Copy Share Image
“In historical terms women, black people in general, were very attracted to very bright-colored clothing. Most people are frightened by color anyway...They… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
When I look at American history and I look at what history means to me, I look at it as if it… — Kadir Nelson Copy Share Image
I believe what really happens in history is this: the old man is always wrong; and the young people are always wrong… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Messiah comes not only as the redeemer, he comes as the subduer of Antichrist. Only that historian will have the gift… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
History is instructive. And what it suggests to people is that even if they do little things, if they walk on the… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
“History reminds us of the inherent weakness in the human condition and the very real possibility that our fellow human beings are… — John Fea Copy Share Image
“However, the most popular cultural response to the Wars of the Roses is not a work of history or historical fiction but… — Charles River Editors Copy Share Image
“For over a century, an evolving microcosm of Anthropology’s turbulent history has hidden behind the staid façade of the American Museum of… — Ian Tattersall Copy Share Image
I'll be honest with you. I'm a little bit of a loner. It's been a big part of my maturing process to… — Kerry Washington Copy Share Image
God of our fathers, you chose Abraham and his descendants to bring your name to the nations: We are deeply saddened by… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
It is long ere we discover how rich we are. Our history, we are sure, is quite tame: we have nothing to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The two Antonines (for it is of them that we are now speaking) governed the Roman world forty-two years, with the same… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Jewish history has been tragic to the Jews and no less tragic to the neighboring nations who have suffered them. Our major… — Samuel Roth Copy Share Image
In a few hundred years, when the history of our time will be written from a long-term perspective, it is likely that… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
There is no parallel in the history of the world. This mighty subcontinent with all kinds of inhabitants has been brought under… — Muhammad Ali Jinnah Copy Share Image
The same political parties which now agitiate the US have existed through all time. And in fact the terms of whig and… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
All human beings are entrepreneurs. When we were in the caves we were all self-employed . . . finding our food, feeding… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
Historians are apt to judge war ministers less by the victories achieved under their direction than by the political results which flowed… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
“History was a bitch sometimes. You couldn’t change where you were from. But still, you didn’t have to stay there. You didn’t… — Kami Garcia Copy Share Image
“Tolstoy’s interest in history began early in his life. It seems to have arisen not from interest in the past as such,… — Isaiah Berlin Copy Share Image
We talk about these legendary fighters, talk about how they had hundred-something fights, hundred-something victories... but when you look at the history… — Floyd Mayweather, Jr Copy Share Image
