History Quote by Malcolm Gladwell

The name Cleopatra wakens the world to life.

— Carmen Boullosa

“In that moment of revealing, one historian will write of Cleopatra, “her desire grew greater than it had been before.”

— Bill O'Reilly

I really don't remember much about Cleopatra. There were a lot of other things going on.

— Elizabeth Taylor

“A human is the one, who would give up a thousand Cleopatras to be with the person he or she loves.”

— Abhijit Naskar

“There are only a few really high-profile archaeological cultures in the world: Egypt and the Maya.”

— Douglas Preston

“ancestor. In fact, this clock tells us that all seven billion people alive today can trace their maternal lineage to one woman who lived…

— Sam Kean

“Genealogy belongs to the rich in human history. The poor rise and fall without leaving a footprint.”

— Anne Rice

...many of the officials, courtiers, and priests, representing the upper class of Egyptian society but not the royalty, looked strikingly like modern Europeans, especially…

— Carleton S. Coon

“Personal and world history is an accumulation of todays, and how they were spent.”

— Andrew M. Davis

Today we are all Egyptians.

— Jens Stoltenberg

“We ought to know the history of our ancient ancestors.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

Serious biographies need to have a historical base in facts.

— Fred Kaplan