Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.
History repeats itself. So you might wanna pay attention.
Food is everything we are. It’s an extension of nationalist feeling, ethnic feeling, your personal history, your province, your region, your tribe, your grandma. It’s inseparable from those from the get-go.
History’s like a story in a way: it depends on who’s telling it.
Do you seriously expect me to be the first Prince of Wales in history not to have a mistress?
I never feel lonely if I’ve got a book – they’re like old friends. Even if you’re not reading them over and over again, you know they are there. And they’re part of your history. They sort of tell a story about your journey through life.
We’re running the most dangerous experiment in history right now, which is to see how much carbon dioxide the atmosphere… can handle before there is an environmental catastrophe.
The 21st century is going to be the American century. Because we lead not only by the example of our power, but by the power of our example. That is the history of the journey of America.
The Negro League had some of the best players in history. Satchel Paige was probably one of the best pitchers in the history of baseball, and many believe catcher Josh Gibson was a better hitter than Babe Ruth.
The worst pandemic in modern history was the Spanish flu of 1918, which killed tens of millions of people. Today, with how interconnected the world is, it would spread faster.
The artist’s job is to be a witness to his time in history.
Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore we must be saved by faith.
History is imperfect and biased, and it always, always has omissions. The most common omissions are the bits that the writer of that history took for granted that his readers would know.
There are people in every time and every land who want to stop history in its tracks. They fear the future, mistrust the present, and invoke the security of a comfortable past which, in fact, never existed.
The invention of the printing press was one of the most important events in human history.
If history is any indication, all truths will eventually turn out to be false.
Each age tries to form its own conception of the past. Each age writes the history of the past anew with reference to the conditions uppermost in its own time.
Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of replacing what worked with what sounded good.
Empires inevitably fall, and when they do, history judges them for the legacies they leave behind.
I was reading a book… ‘the history of glue’ – I couldn’t put it down.
A Conservative is a fellow who is standing athwart history yelling ‘Stop!’
As we celebrate Black History Month we should be grateful for the achievements they made and inspired by their legacies to continue their work.
Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.
Women take so long to get ready, but when they get out of the bathroom, they look smokin’ hot. That’s the struggle of men throughout history, waiting by the door. The wait is so worth it. Always.
Liberty has never come from Government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it.
