But look, I was born in 1956, the peak year for births in US history. I think I'm very representative of many… — Tom Hanks Copy Share Image
There is a tragic kind of joke. You really can't keep a man down - good but often otherwise - because history's… — Wesley Morris Copy Share Image
If you go back and you look at the presidency over the course of history, presidents tend to do what they campaigned… — Evan Osnos Copy Share Image
“He stares at me. “So you’re telling me that you obey all my orders, because honestly that would be news to me?”… — Lily Morton Copy Share Image
Environmental history was . . . born out of a moral purpose, with strong political commitments behind it, but also became, as… — Donald Worster Copy Share Image
Our American history reflects a long-standing tension between people and power. In fact, all government everywhere does. But our American form of… — Sheldon Whitehouse Copy Share Image
Ultrasound is instrumental in the fight against abortion precisely because it allows women to make an informed choice by shedding light in… — Eric Metaxas Copy Share Image
IT is an astonishing thing that historians will look back and puzzle over, that in the 21st century, American women were such… — Maureen Dowd Copy Share Image
I want history to remember me... not as the first black woman to have made a bid for the presidency of the… — Shirley Chisholm Copy Share Image
“That’s what I believe. I believe the universe wants to be noticed. I think the universe is improbably biased toward consciousness, that… — John Green Copy Share Image
“He was more embarrassed and discreet about sex than about things I thought more difficult, like killing people, which pretty much defined… — Viet Thanh Nguyen Copy Share Image
“Actually I am a Christian, and indeed a Roman Catholic, so that I do not expect 'history' to be anything but a… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
It is very remarkable that while the words Eternal, Eternity, Forever, are constantly in our mouths, and applied without hesitation, we yet… — George Julius Poulett Scrope Copy Share Image
In a sense, Open City is a kind of Wunderkammer, one of those little rooms assembled with bric-a-brac by Renaissance scholars. I… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
“The ‘I’ that we confidently broadcast to the world is a fiction—a jerry-built container for the volatile unconscious elements that divide and… — Robert W. Fuller Copy Share Image
Liberals say this over and over and over again to hide the actual history, which is why I go through the specifics… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
Throughout the human experience people have read history because they felt that it was a pleasure and that it was in some… — Donald Kagan Copy Share Image
No matter how powerful our political and religious leaders think they are, they are as dust before the immense and implacable forces… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
I played softball at George Washington University, and then I played professionally for the Mid-Michigan Ice. I had a couple of tryouts… — Elana Meyers Copy Share Image
Phylogeny and ontogeny are, therefore, the two coordinated branches of morphology. Phylogeny is the developmental history [Entwickelungsgeschichte] of the abstract, genealogical individual;… — Ernst Haeckel Copy Share Image
All of human history is about the going from sudden fat years to the sudden lean years. We've always had good times… — Raj Patel Copy Share Image
When Saddam Hussein was overthrown, Iraqis resolved never to allow one man, one political party, or one segment of society to dominate… — Haider al-Abadi Copy Share Image
“For years, walking round London, I had been aware of the actual land, lying concealed but not entirely changed or destroyed, beneath… — Gillian Tindall Copy Share Image
Steven Spielberg making a Ready Player One movie is going to change the course of human history as pertains to how quickly… — Ernest Cline Copy Share Image
For most of human history, 'literature,' both fiction and poetry, has been narrated, not written — heard, not read. So fairy tales,… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
I surrender this rifle to you through my young son, whom I now desire to teach in this manner that he has… — Sitting Bull Copy Share Image
“Ezio considered the new century they were in - the sixteenth. And only near its beginning. What would unfold during it, he… — Oliver Bowden Copy Share Image
“In Paris, I felt connected to history in a way I did not in America. Elderly men I passed in the Latin… — Kati Marton Copy Share Image
I don't mind that Bill Gates is a mega zillionaire; he's done a lot of really interesting and innovative stuff. I do… — Jon Evans Copy Share Image
“The crucial historical role of religion has been to give superhuman legitimacy to these fragile structures. Religions assert that our laws are… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
History provides many examples of democracy crushed by people who said to be the champion of "genuine democracy" and "the people's real… — Olof Palme Copy Share Image
“I am acting, then," continued Alexander, "only on the defensive. The gods, who always favor the right, have given me the victory.… — Jacob Abbott Copy Share Image
It is a remarkable fact that the second law of thermodynamics has played in the history of science a fundamental role far… — Ilya Prigogine Copy Share Image
“Even the name, Celt, is not from their own Indo-European language but from Greek. Keltoi, the name given to them by Greek… — Mark Kurlansky Copy Share Image
Names are very important for humans, aren't they? How do I translate for you the name of this town as it seems… — Karen Lord Copy Share Image
“I neither oblige the belief of other person, nor overhastily subscribe mine own. Nor have I stood with others computing or collating… — John Milton Copy Share Image
I think the language of sacrifice is particularly important for societies like the United States in which war remains our most determinative… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
Throughout the entire history of philosophy, philosophers have sought to discover what man is - or what human nature is. But Sartre… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
“You'll find that historical research is extremely soothing. When you spend all day among old papers, the people come alive for you,… — Ruth Reichl Copy Share Image
“Among a certain type of creative men, there was a history of strong, if difficult friendships. From Wordsworth and Coleridge to John… — Kathleen Gilles Seidel Copy Share Image