We cannot get by Auschwitz. We should not even try, as great as the temptation is, because Auschwitz belongs to us, is… — Gunter Grass Copy Share Image
“There is the familiar figure of Orosius, defending the barbarians with the argument that when the Roman empire was founded it was… — Eileen Power Copy Share Image
Like every country, North Korea has some very smart people. They could be contributing a lot more to science and other areas,… — Lee Hyeon-seo Copy Share Image
I'm trying to push for common-sense gun reform and mental illness reform so we can make sure that these individuals that have… — David Hogg Copy Share Image
I am interested in people living in the margins of society, and I do have a mission to tell the stories of… — Lynn Nottage Copy Share Image
“I know that everything is connected like a worldwide version of the six-degrees-of-separation game. I know that history is simultaneously a bloody… — A.J. Jacobs Copy Share Image
“By the Middles Ages it was a sin to have sex with a child. If an adult were guilty of such a… — Patrick J. Carnes Copy Share Image
“There was nothing special about humans. Nobody, least of all humans themselves, had any inkling that their descendants would one day walk… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“The idea of decline is no more, no less, correct than the idea of progress. History is neither progress nor decline alone.… — Robert A. Nisbet Copy Share Image
The whole history of these books (i.e. the Gospels) is so defective and doubtful that it seems vain to attempt minute enquiry… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I know that throughout their history, the people of the United States defended their freedom, their liberty, their justice, and their rights… — Lee Myung-bak Copy Share Image
Warsaw's historic heart was deliberately almost entirely destroyed towards the end of the Second World War by the German occupying troops. After… — Carol Drinkwater Copy Share Image
“The real comfort is that the history of the world contains so much grief that my small griefs are edged out, and… — Sebastian Barry Copy Share Image
“On various occasions, especially in trying to think of western American history in the context of the worldwide history of colonialism, it… — Patricia Nelson Limerick Copy Share Image
They didn’t have novels back then. (Tory) History says they didn’t have books, yet what’s this thing in my hand? It’s square,… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
The true historical genius, to our thinking, is that which can see the nobler meaning of events that are near him, as… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
“Gower is the first English writer to use "history" as an English word. He regularly rhymes the term with "memory," for to… — Russell A. Peck Copy Share Image
Throughout Yorkshire's history, the committee had not been known for its visionary approach. They just assumed that because Yorkshire had been fantastic… — Geoffrey Boycott Copy Share Image
From Jefferson to Jackson to Lincoln to FDR to Reagan, every great president inspires enormous affection and enormous hostility. We'll all be… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
“History was finite and contained within comprehensible limits. It began with the Creation and was scheduled to end in a not indefinitely… — Barbara W. Tuchman Copy Share Image
I'm allergic to over-promising. I'm allergic to exaggeration, because I've been in schools for a large part of my life, and I… — Larry Cuban Copy Share Image
From food trucks to hot dog stands to county fair favorites, 'street food' has enjoyed a rich and storied history in American… — Homaro Cantu Copy Share Image
And if you're going to criticize me for not finishing the whole thing and tying it up in a bow for you,… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
It's scary times for humanity, it seems. But as my octogenarian father tells me, "The world has seen harder times, and the… — Debbie Harry Copy Share Image
“Time has a different meaning for me, and these events that seem so monumental in the moment will one day be nothing… — Jessica Khoury Copy Share Image
Regardless of what anyone may personally think or believe about him, Jesus of Nazareth has been the dominant figure in the history… — Jaroslav Pelikan Copy Share Image
I was a pretty delinquent little kid. My folks and I didn't get along, so I basically moved out... put myself through… — Al Jourgensen Copy Share Image
“The forgotten of this country have a consistent history of turning on their champions, and I suppose the way working men and… — Ethan Canin Copy Share Image
“History is a drop in humanity’s bucket of time. The period we usually call “history” takes up the last five thousand years.… — David W. Tollen Copy Share Image
“But in them all, you and I are more than history. I have to believe these universes exist; it’s the only way… — Adam Silvera Copy Share Image
When the venture has been made of dealing with historical events and characters, it always seems fair towards the reader to avow… — Charlotte Mary Yonge Copy Share Image
You don't know me; you never knew my heart. No man knows my history. I cannot tell it: I shall never undertake… — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
“examination of its own history and of the forms of thought given the name “philosophy” indicates that “philosophy” has itself borne many… — Gregory B. Sadler Copy Share Image
In the history of mankind there are recorded two great Inversions. The first, set forth by the Nazarene to the effect that… — Louis Sullivan Copy Share Image
Anyway, the fascinating thing was that I read in National Geographic that there are more people alive now than have died in… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
I think that to a very great extent we are partners with the divine in this enterprise called history. That is an… — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
The wisest thing in the world is to cry out before you are hurt. It is no good to cry out after… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“He sounded flustered. Juliette watched him busy about the stove, his movements jerky and manic, and realized she was the one cloistered… — Hugh Howey Copy Share Image
I don't have regrets of being an architect. You are looking continuously - to the leaves of the trees, the shapes of… — Rafael Moneo Copy Share Image
“Narrative history fell out of fashion for many years in the 1970s and 1980s, as historians everywhere focused on analytical approaches derived… — Richard J. Evans Copy Share Image
