For most of American history, of course, the important religious divides were between denominations - not just between Protestants and Catholics and… — Hanna Rosin Copy Share Image
I am a simple girl. My clothes are not fancy, my intelligence is not noteworthy, my talents are not many, and my… — Bernajoy Vaal Copy Share Image
The worsening of relations between a declining America and an internally troubled Mexico could even give rise to a particularly ominous phenomenon:… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
He says, you have to study and learn so that you can make up your own mind about history and everything else… — Frank McCourt Copy Share Image
Life is sacred? Who said so, God? Hey, if you read history you'll realize that God is one of the leading causes… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
Remove from the history of the past all those actions which have either sprung directly from the religious nature of man, or… — Mark Hopkins Copy Share Image
“And then...it wasn't just that we lost all those jobs, it was that people didn't have anything to be good at anymore.… — Philipp Meyer Copy Share Image
Problems come and go over time, and to understand why is a difficult historical task. If one wanted to find the origin… — Tim Crane Copy Share Image
The stamping out of the artist is one of the blind goals of every civilization. When a civilization becomes so standardized that… — Elie Faure Copy Share Image
The historical basis for the gap between the black middle class and underclass shows that ending discrimination, by itself, would not eradicate… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
When you're from the Bay Area, there's this chip on your shoulder that you inherently come up with, because us, as a… — G-Eazy Copy Share Image
But although we have noticed the ark as being the first ship, we cannot with propriety place it in the front of… — R. M. Ballantyne Copy Share Image
“So the badger poked up the fire, poured himself another cup of tea, and went back to the History to read the… — Susan Wittig Albert Copy Share Image
“Willow sees her before any of the others. A walking skeleton, the victim of some terrible wasting disease, like something out of… — Julia Hoban Copy Share Image
“The history of China’s “land reform” was written in the tears and blood of landowners like my great-grandfather. But the 300 million… — Helen Raleigh Copy Share Image
Fellow-citizens, we cannot escape history. We of this Congress and this administration, will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance,… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
We are not a warlike people. Nor is our history filled with tales of aggressive adventures and imperialism, which might come as… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
“He cupped my face between his hands, and when our lips touched, his skin felt soft and warm. It was the smallest,… — Antony John Copy Share Image
“Religion is a byproduct of fear. For much of human history, it may have been a necessary evil, but why was it… — George Washington Copy Share Image
“Calvinism, as we have seen, starts from a double decree of absolute predestination, which antedates creation, and is the divine program of… — Philip Schaff Copy Share Image
The history of the past is a mere puppet-show. A little man comes out and blows a little trumpet, and goes in… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
“I remember Mitchell Sanders sitting quietly in the shade of an old banyan tree. He was using a thumbnail to pry off… — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
“The direction of a big act will warp history, but probably all acts will do the same thing in their degree, down… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
As a person of color, as a woman, as a body moving through this particular space in time, I realize the streets… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
The American Dream is one of the greatest ideas in the history of human achievement . . . It thrives today in… — Dan Rather Copy Share Image
Spiritual power is a force which history clearly teaches has been the greatest force in the development of men. Ye. we have… — Charles Proteus Steinmetz Copy Share Image
The Dutch must be understood as they really are, the Middle Persons in Trade, the Factors and Brokers of Europe... they buy… — Daniel Defoe Copy Share Image
I am seized with an abiding fear regarding what these two instruments are doing to our society, our culture and our heritage.… — Edward R. Murrow Copy Share Image
The women of this country ought be enlightened in regard to the laws under which they live, that they may no longer… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
For thousands of years, we Jews have been nourished and sustained by a yearning for our historic land. I, like many others,… — Ehud Olmert Copy Share Image
“The central fact of biblical history, the birth of the Messiah, more than any other, presupposes the design of Providence in the… — Vladimir Solovyov Copy Share Image
Historically, there hasn't been a significant correlation between gold prices and U.S. elections. Furthermore, history has shown that gold prices tend to… — Fabrizio Moreira Copy Share Image
“Is it possible for white America to really understand blacks’ distrust of the legal system, their fears of racial profiling and the… — Philip Dray Copy Share Image
I think, certainly, in history, if you look back, a lot of people would go through their careers, build a business, or… — Dana Perino Copy Share Image
A man who risks his life in shooting big game in order to secure good specimens for natural history collections, or to… — Robert Baden-Powell Copy Share Image
“Though glorification of the self has been a central motif in human history since the Fall, the individual autonomy of the Enlightenment… — Gale Heide Copy Share Image
“You say “hold to your values” at the same time you say our values are all wrong. Help me with this. I… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
“Reference to the deadness of the past is a way of staking a claim on it. But historians must be open, as… — Robert A. Orsi Copy Share Image
“The ultimate source of power, here as in the whole course of Arab history, is the personality of the commander. Through him,… — Janet Wallach Copy Share Image
I didn't graduate high school, so I never got a teacher's education, I'm mostly self-read, self-taught. I always loved music, so I… — Billy Joel Copy Share Image
