“At times I see them as if I were walking through the streets of Pompeii before the eruption of Vesuvius. This is… — Ernst Jünger Copy Share Image
Roman history was kind of unavoidable where I was growing up. It was everywhere - all the place names and ruins and… — Neil Marshall Copy Share Image
“To me, history ought to be a source of pleasure. It isn't just part of our civic responsibility. To me, it's an… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
History is one of the only fields where contributions by amateurs are taken seriously, providing you follow the rules and document your… — George Dyson Copy Share Image
“Certainly it's a rare glimpse into the lives of the Secular Ancients. They don't seem as bad as the Dominion histories make… — Robert Charles Wilson Copy Share Image
If you look at the history of great quarterbacks, from Joe Montana being picked late to Tom Brady being picked late to… — Geno Smith Copy Share Image
“Sherman and his men revealed what intellectual historian Joseph Kett has described as a singular American ability to remain creatively insubordinate within… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There's a thing at the Museum of Natural History in New York, where I live: they have a stairwell where you follow… — Peter Dinklage Copy Share Image
Hope, the best comfort of our imperfect condition, was not denied to the Roman slave; and if he had any opportunity of… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“I think the universe is improbably biased toward consciousness, that it rewards intelligence in part because the universe enjoys its elegance being… — John Green Copy Share Image
“For the pedant, dates are deities, worthy of worship, but for the true social historian, they are minutiae only, a shorthand, convenient… — William Goldman Copy Share Image
Theories of history used to be supernatural: the divine ruled time; the hand of God, a special providence, lay behind the fall… — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
My obsessions stay the same - historical memory and historical erasure. I am particularly interested in the Americas and how a history… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
Historians still often see the end of the war as meaning nothing more for Germany than lost territories, lost participation in colonization,… — Gustav Stresemann Copy Share Image
“It is good to recall that three centuries ago, around the year 1660, two of the greatest monuments of modern history were… — Abdus Salam Copy Share Image
We're just people from everywhere, looking for identity. New York, with the history of freedom, and dreams, and realized dreams, people come… — Pawel Althamer Copy Share Image
That is what the highest criticism really is, the record of one's own soul. It is more fascinating than history, as it… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I'm a student of history and know that civilizations get lost - they are born and die - and so I recognize… — Gangaji Copy Share Image
From arts, to literature, to science, to the founding of Christian institutions, all of that has its roots in a biblical worldview,… — Hank Hanegraaff Copy Share Image
“It is supposed to be true that those who do not know history are condemned to repeat it. I don't believe knowing… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
I used to live in an old historic shipyard town called Trenton, Michigan, and a month after I moved in, I started… — Zak Bagans Copy Share Image
“The statue of Justice, symbol of the law, as she holds aloft her balance scale, is blindfolded. Justice is blind to race,… — Leonard J. Arrington Copy Share Image
“It was said that one of them, either the actor or the history teacher, was superfluous in this world, but you weren't,… — José Saramago Copy Share Image
“It has been often said that the winners write history. Cooperatives have been widespread and important in many periods of American history,… — John Curl Copy Share Image
After the $700 billion bailout, the trillion-dollar stimulus, and the massive budget bill with over 9,000 earmarks, many of you implored Washington… — Michele Bachmann Copy Share Image
Sir, allusion has been made, in an early stage of this debate, to the history of the excitement which once pervaded a… — Caleb Cushing Copy Share Image
Without history we are infants. Ask what binds the British Isles more closely to America than to Europe and only history gives… — Simon Jenkins Copy Share Image
RuPaul might not broadcast herself as political, but I think she tries to make moves in American history by catching more flies… — Trixie Mattel Copy Share Image
The whole history between Haiti and the Dominican Republic is complicated. We share the island of Hispaniola, and Haiti occupied the Dominican… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
“It is easy to sanctify policies or identities by the deaths of victims. It is less appealing, but morally more urgent, to… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
“Don’t,” Nik said, stepping closer to her. “Don’t reduce our history to a five-second dismissal when I haven’t seen you in nearly… — Scarlett Cole Copy Share Image
“This is where the capitalists got it right: they were better than the communists at learning from history, because they never bought… — John Lewis Gaddis Copy Share Image
While historians may go on attempting grand, sweeping and defining narratives, they work in a time when readers know that another narrative… — Colm Toibin Copy Share Image
I've found that using historical material and being rooted in historical material is liberating because I always think to myself, 'Well, this… — Michael Hirst Copy Share Image
I feel that it's very important for young people to have a sense of history and do research and don't re-invent the… — Ana Castillo Copy Share Image
I think we are living in an era of being hyper-concerned about, Is it us? Because we have this historical awareness. People… — Lucy Corin Copy Share Image
College was pivotal for me. It broadened my horizons, taught me to think and question, and introduced me to many things -… — John E Ferling Copy Share Image
If you look at the history of the Ford Foundation and Rockefeller, in Latin America, in Indonesia, where almost a million people,… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
“When was the last time that someone was criticized for not "respecting" another person's unfounded beliefs about physics or history? The same… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“To be present in history, even as nothing more than a chuckle, was a universe away from being absent from it, from… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
![“To me, history ought to be a source of pleasure. It isn't just part of our civic responsibility. To me, it's an enlargement of the experience of being alive, just the way literature or art or music is." [ The Title Always Comes Last ; NEH 2003 Jefferson Lecturer interview profile]” quote by David McCullough](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/03b/david-mccullough-1091_art_to-me-history-ought-to-be-a-source-of-pl_505018.jpg)
