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BILL BRYSON Dylan Thomas is now as much a case history as a chapter in the history of poetry.
SEAMUS HEANEY I have three degrees in history and only one in law, but since I came back to specialize in constitu...
FRANK SCOTT if it doesn't come bursting out of you
in spite of everything,
don't do it.
unless it...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI Ay me! For aught that I could every read,
Could ever hear by tale or history,
The course o...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE As artists, our primary function is not to be educators - but we are at a time in history, where for...
DAVID OYELOWO The truth is, I love history and studied it in college, with a particular focus on early American hi...
ALEXANDRA BRACKEN A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life.
NORMAN COUSINS In England, there's so much history that you feel a part of history even when you're really not,
DANIEL RADCLIFFE There is no record in history of a happy philosopher.
H. L. MENCKEN The power of the family stories and the family history is really remarkable. There seems to be somet...
ROBYN FIVUSH Any era in our culture that looks back and perceives history says as much about us as it does the hi...
JAMES HALEY Whatever your feelings may be about William Clinton the man, or William Clinton the political ally o...
CHARLES RUFF When you don't know the story of a place, it makes it much easier to destroy it. And so much of Flor...
DIANE ROBERTS It's quite exciting. You feel part of history when you see it. It's a very important site. ... We al...
AARON RAM History is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging. What has happened before will...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only w...
R. D. LAING It was nice to be able to get away from our rooms and visit a place that has so much history attache...
RAHUL DRAVID The student is to read history actively not passively.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Human history has become too much a matter of dogma taught by 'professionals' in ivory towers as tho...
GRAHAM HANCOCK We want to go to the place where history started.
GARY WHITE All of us have a place in history. Mine is clouds.
RICHARD BRAUTIGAN History is the world's greatest teacher,but are you a good student?
JOHN KOVACICH Never before in history has innovation offered promise of so much to so many in so short a time.
BILL GATES This is a historically significant victory for women worldwide but for Jamaicans in particular. Port...
DIANE ABBOTT Im making my own history, so if you're willing to make your own , you would be better prepare yourse...
PETER ALMOJUELA CHRISTENSEN Happy is the nation without a history.
CESARE DI BONESANA BECCARIA Happy is the nation without a history
CESARE BECCARIA He was what I often think is a dangerous thing for a statesman to be - a student of history; and lik...
A. J. P. TAYLOR From William of Orange to William Pitt the younger there was but one man without whom English histor...
ALBERT BUSHNELL HART Not only is there a right to be happy, there is a duty to be happy. So much sadness exists in the wo...
JOHN S. BONNELL I am very happy for him, ... What a role model he is. He is everything you would want your son to be...
FRANK GIFFORD What they teach you as history is mythology, and true mythology is far from fantasy - every kind rev...
SUZY KASSEM A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of i...
NORMAN COUSINS A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of i...
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DERRICK BROOKS One of the most important things I have found is that no one school of thought has all of the answer...
LEWIS N. ROE There's the 'right way' and the 'usual way'.
Folks tend to confuse both.
The right way i...
UFUOMA APOKI Doctorow here appears not so much a re-constructor of history as a visionary who seeks in time past ...
JOHN UPDIKE We've got to know our history. We have to be able to bring our children to a place that they can...
MARLA GIBBS Our major attractions in the state continue to be our national parks, our outdoor recreation. But on...
BETSY BAUMGART That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons...
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JOE TORRE rejection, ordered a series of aerial attacks on the Royal Air Force bases and radar stations in sou...
HOURLY HISTORY despite the anti-Semitic attitudes of Vienna at
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HOURLY HISTORY Society wants to believe it can identify evil people, or bad or harmful people, but it’s not pract...
HOURLY HISTORY As sure as time, history is repeating itself, and as sure as man is man, history is the last place h...
HARPER LEE During my time in New York I was interested in what was going on in the arts culture — music, galle...
JAKE WIEN I think a secure profession for young people is history teacher, because in the future, there will b...
BILL MUSE As a state we are so uniquely positioned in so many ways. Our geography, our placement in the countr...
JENNIFER GRANHOLM You should never give up a happy middle in the hopes of a happy ending, because there is no such thi...
JOHN GREEN So time continued on slowly and painfully. Perhaps the old analogy of being a record stuck on repeat...
ANNA AQUINO Unfortunately, you're here at a very sad time in our history,
HEATHER FARGO That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons...
ALDOUS HUXLEY That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons...
ALDOUS HUXLEY The majority ... who want to see it believe in what we're doing and believe that moving forward in h...
KAREN CANTOU I'm not quite sure of his place in history. History will determine that.
MARGARET THATCHER India is a curious place that still preserves the past, religions, and its history. No matter how mo...
ANITA DESAI When I had photographed Prince William's mother, I brought along a CD of Dalida, a French singer...
MARIO TESTINO The careful student of history will discover that Christianity has been of very little value in adva...
MATILDA JOSLYN GAGE (The ruling is) a victory of history over hate, ... Today's decision definitely places Irving where ...
SIMON WIESENTHAL A coin is examined, and only after careful deliberation, given to a beggar, whereas a child is flung...
PETER WESSEL ZAPFFE ...history, as you may know, is much like a spiral staircase that gives the illusion of going up, bu...
ROBERT JACKSON BENNETT When I was in school, all our history books were American, so we learned American history, not Canad...
DAVE FOLEY As much as anything, we often have referred to 'Selection Sunday,' and that has become very much a t...
JONI COMSTOCK Simply because they are part of Prince William County's history. It would be great if some of them w...
BEREKET SELASSIE It's important for us to see and to know this is a part of our history, not just black history but A...
JEFFERSON RUSSELL I want people to be excited about cooling towers and megasheds; they're as much part of our hist...
ANTONY GORMLEY Learning the history, we were filling in the blanks in ourselves. This had been a major event in a p...
JULENE BAIR If anyone thinks they'd rather be in a different part of history, they're probably not a ver...
ELON MUSK This city, which has taken its place in the history of our century, is now being called upon to help...
MARTTI AHTISAARI We find ourselves in a much different place in our lifecycle than that product is and we continue to...
BRIAN CURRY American history and the history of baseball are bound up together: our racial politics can be descr...
CHAD HARBACH When I was a graduate student, the leading spirits at Harvard were interested in the history of idea...
M. H. ABRAMS Scotland really is a spectacularly beautiful country with so much history. I always go to Culzean Ca...
SUSAN EISENHOWER The results showed that Joe Mokoena and I had made history. For the first time in the history of edu...
OLIVER TAMBO My hero Socrates trained Plato on a rock. How much did that cost? So the greatest minds in history b...
DAVE BRAT I grew up in Europe, where the history comes from.
EDDIE IZZARD This was like a dream, like a chance of a lifetime to live in a house that has so much history.
KATHY BOYD I've heard that in the history of the Student Government Association, there's never been this big of...
JOE FRANCO Nothing is ever as good or as bad as it appears to be.
JEFFREY FRY As history be told truthfully, edification becomes much less exhausting.
JONATHAN CHEN Because the human history is the history of shoes. The history of places where we ever tread and sta...
STEBBY JULIONATAN He would like to sell a big lump of it at very low prices, ... This is a moment in history where the...
MICHAEL LEVY Where you are born--what you are born into, the place, the history of the place, how that history ma...
JEANETTE WINTERSON The greatest country in the history of the world being attacked. So all of this doesn't mean ver...
BUD SELIG I was brought up in a family which valued natural history. Both my parents knew the names of all the...
RICHARD DAWKINS There are but a handful of times in the history of our country when there occurs a transformation so...
DORIS KEARNS GOODWIN I had come to a place where I was meant to be. I don't mean anything so prosaic as a sense of coming...
PAT CONROY It is inadmissible that systems of ideas like religions, which have held so considerable a place in ...
EMILE DURKHEIM However, I must say that I am very happy to see that we have such a positive result for our first re...
CHEN SHUI-BIAN You are linked to all the history of our great division and we want you to know how proud we are of ...
JAMES WILKINSON Never in the history of fashion has so little material been raised so high to reveal so much that ne...
CECIL BEATON The antagonism is pretty much a thing of history.
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WILLIAM WORDSWORTH To me the meanest flower that blows can give thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Life is divided into three terms - that which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from th...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH There are good waves not that far from Manhattan - on Long Island, in north Jersey. It's true th...
WILLIAM FINNEGAN Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic current...
WILLIAM JAMES As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Now is the winter of our discontent.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE What are gold and jewels and precious utensils? Mere dross and dirt. The human face and the human he...
WILLIAM GODWIN Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed.
WILLIAM BLAKE The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perce...
WILLIAM JAMES I like stirring things up. I'm on the side of the kids more than I am on the adults. And occasio...
WILLIAM JOYCE Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE