“History can teach us so much, and yet we seem to learns so little.” — Orrin Woodward Copy Share Image
“Poor England. Too much history for its acreage. Years grow inwards here, like my toenails.” — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
Juventus is an historical club, and many great players have played there. — Gonzalo Higuain Copy Share Image
Novels give you the matrix of emotions, give you the flavour of a time in a way formal history cannot. — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
False history gets made all day, any day, the truth of the new is never on the news. — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
Gods have great power, but only humans have creativity, the power to change history. — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
Human beings of any age need to approve of themselves; the bad times in history come when they cannot. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I dont believe knowing can save us. What is constant in history is greed and foolishness and a love of blood and… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
History portrays everything as if it could not have come otherwise. History is on the side of what happened. — Elias Canetti Copy Share Image
Although drag has a long cultural history in America, it remained largely underground till the late 1980s. — Jenna Wortham Copy Share Image
Ive spent my whole life working in a medium that was regarded with contempt largely because of historical reasons. — Will Eisner Copy Share Image
Vexillography is a very big word! Vexillography is really the high science and art and understanding of flags and their history -… — Gilbert Baker Copy Share Image
A generation without history is a generation that not only loses a nation's memory but loses a sense of what it's like… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
The steady pressure to consume, absorb, participate, receive, by eye, ear, mouth, and mail involves a cruelty to intestines, blood pressure, and… — Herbert Gold Copy Share Image
History, with its hard spine & dog-eared Corners, will be replaced with nuance, Just like the dinosaurs gave way To mounds and… — Tracy K. Smith Copy Share Image
Teaching the history of the British Empire links in with that of the world: for better and for worse, the Empire made… — Antony Beevor Copy Share Image
“Finally, I had held up examples of Goldhagen's inflammatory language and suggested that he had missed the essence of what Primo Levi… — Erna Paris Copy Share Image
“Flu pandemics are nothing new. Medical historians think the first one struck in 1510, infecting Asia, Africa, Europe, and the New World.… — Albert Marrin Copy Share Image
“In any case, Cide Hamete Benengeli was a very careful historian, and very accurate in all things, as can be clearly seen… — Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Copy Share Image
The history of a man's soul, even the pettiest soul, is hardly less interesting and useful than the history of a whole… — Mikhail Lermontov Copy Share Image
It was really hard coming to terms with the Nazi history. Then in my twenties I was traveling to Germany. There was… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
In the richest country in the history of the world, this Obama economy has crushed the middle class. Family income has fallen… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
There are persons who leave an indelible impression in the history of the world. They make it compulsory for the future generations… — T Joseph Benziger Copy Share Image
Those old credulities, to Nature dear, Shall they no longer bloom upon the stock Of history? — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
More and more, I tend to read history. I often find it more up to date than the daily newspapers. — Joe Murray Copy Share Image
Of course I want to be compared to one of the greatest shortstops in the history of the game. — Carlos Correa Copy Share Image
“It is a dangerous thing to have the same men in both the prophecy and the history business.” — Stacy Schiff Copy Share Image
All the events which make the annals of the nations are but the shadows of our private experiences. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Trying to plan for the future without knowing the past is like trying to plant cut flowers.” — David Boorstin Copy Share Image
Jesus was the most active resister known to history. His was nonviolence par excellence. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
In my estimation, more misery has been created by reformers than by any other force in human history. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
I consider Zidane to be an amazing player who has written football history. — Fabio Cannavaro Copy Share Image
History is too often the refuge of the tidy-minded, making neat patterns when the dust has settled. — Melvyn Bragg Copy Share Image
