“I love learning. I love history. But there's history in everything. Every building, everybody you talk to. It's not limited to libraries… — Becky Chambers Copy Share Image
As a filmmaker coming from one of the youngest lands in the world, New Zealand - safe, green and democratic - I… — Pietra Brettkelly Copy Share Image
I think I regard any history in quotes, because just like science, we're constantly revising science, we're constantly revising history. There's no… — David S. Goyer Copy Share Image
John Lewis has great history as a civil rights fighter.As a young man, he was one of the guys out there who… — Jim Brown Copy Share Image
If you are a plane-spotter, and you are interested in the history of a particular aircraft, you know there are many documents… — Trevor Paglen Copy Share Image
I talk about Africa and its meaning, being the birthplace of man and all that great history that's been erased and even… — Nas Copy Share Image
“Yet historians still start their books with a ritual lament about 'the sources' and their inadequacy. The lament is not entirely insincere… — Mary Beard Copy Share Image
I think continually of those who were truly great . Who, from the womb, remembered the soul 's history Through corridors of… — Stephen Spender Copy Share Image
'An Octoroon' was written over about three years but premiered in 2014. I'm writing about America's relationship to its own history. Race… — Branden Jacobs-Jenkins Copy Share Image
Boxing on Long Island - there is history there. It's been a while since Buddy McGirt and Gerry Cooney, but you know,… — Chris Algieri Copy Share Image
“She had liked once to think of herself as passionate, in love with her books, drunk on history, enamored of the wide… — Meredith Duran Copy Share Image
“We've been sold a dream of savings and investing that had no basis in any history or reality. We were participants in… — Helaine Olen Copy Share Image
In the 1970s, family history wasn't yet thought of a serious field for study. I was terrified of being laughed at by… — Stephanie Coontz Copy Share Image
The year 1896 ... marked the beginning of what has been aptly termed the heroic age of Physical Science. Never before in… — Ernest Rutherford Copy Share Image
I recall asking the late eminent liberal historian Arthur Schlesinger, in a public forum in Los Angeles in the late 1970s, if… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
The past is so often unknowable not because it is befogged now but because it was befogged then, too, back when it… — Adam Gopnik Copy Share Image
I do not have a history in set design. I have a history in art. I draw. But I learned set design… — Dawn Richard Copy Share Image
“People quickly forget their pasts, often speculate about future, and too busy to think about today. However, we all forget that the… — John Taskinsoy Copy Share Image
Music is neither old nor modern: it is either good or bad music, and the date at which it was written has… — Peter Warlock Copy Share Image
“Far from being Eurocentric, my analysis "exoticizes" Europe. Europe is historically aberrant. In some ways this was a historical accident, not entirely… — Immanuel Wallerstein Copy Share Image
The historian Arthur Schlesinger has pointed out that people tend to get interested in politics again every 30 years. The universe moves… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
“my career in public life, I have had the rare privilege of being a participant in many of the defining moments of… — Pranab Mukherjee Copy Share Image
“[F]or all its reputation for conservatism, cricket in its history has demonstrated a remarkable capacity for innovation. What game has survived subjection… — Gideon Haigh Copy Share Image
The Declaration of Independence is the all-time masterpiece of ideological simplification. There in a single sentence of self-evident truth, the founding Fathers… — Clarence Manion Copy Share Image
“Every morning I wake up to have the same hope, that mankind had survived its own greed, its own desire to self-destruct,… — Husam Wafaei Copy Share Image
“Latino history is like a river dividing the United States and Mexico. It is shared by several different cultures and called by… — Ilan Stavans Copy Share Image
Throughout American history, the political leaders have always exhorted the American people to be nice and quiet and leave things to them.… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
I'm convinced the true history of our time isn't what we read in newspapers or books...True history is almost invisible. It flows… — Félix J. Palma Copy Share Image
If people like to read their books, it is all very well, but to be at so much trouble in filling great… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“My identity as Jewish cannot be reduced to a religious affiliation. Professor Said quoted Gramsci, an author that I’m familiar with, that,… — R.F. Georgy Copy Share Image
History will always regard Florida as the state that decided the Bush-Gore contest, but if Gore had carried Tennessee, Arkansas, Missouri, West… — Steve Kornacki Copy Share Image
India is, the cradle of the human race, the birthplace of human speech, the mother of history, the grandmother of legend, and… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Reframe Your Past as a Teacher, Not a Prison. Seraphina used her painful memories as a strategic map. Do not let your… — Paulson Gracie Copy Share Image
“The historian William Cronon explains that packing plants 'distanced their customers most of all from the act of killing… The more people… — Steven Wise Copy Share Image
My dad wanted me to be a scientist and I was set to study science A-levels. But after the first term I… — Lucy Worsley Copy Share Image
For the first time in the history of Bihar, I provided a stable government. Despite being denied funds by the Centre, Bihar… — Lalu Prasad Yadav Copy Share Image
“In these random impressions, and with no desire to be other than random, I indi�erently narrate my factless autobiography, my lifeless history.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“There had been a time, until 1422, when a number of both Gaelic and Anglo-Irish students attended Oxford and Cambridge in England.… — Emily Hahn Copy Share Image
What I found was when I started my first study, and then in subsequent studies, is here you have people under some… — Robert Jay Lifton Copy Share Image
I was a pretty angry kid, and I got into military history largely as a way to vent my own anger. As… — Caleb Carr Copy Share Image