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Image of Anthony Bourdain
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.
- Anthony Bourdain
Collection: History
Image of Jose Rizal
History does not record in its annals any lasting domination exercised by one people over another, of different race, of diverse usages and customs, of opposite and divergent ideals. One of the two had to yield and succumb.
- Jose Rizal
Collection: History
Image of Jordan Peterson
The idea that women were oppressed throughout history is an appalling theory.
- Jordan Peterson
Collection: History
Image of Wendy Kopp
You will find it will almost always be more comfortable to sit on the sidelines and critique the builders from afar. But at the end of the day, the people who make a difference, the people who shape history, are not the haters.
- Wendy Kopp
Collection: History
Image of Lenny Henry
If you don't know your history, you can't know your future.
- Lenny Henry
Collection: History
Image of Aristotle
Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.
- Aristotle
Collection: History
Image of Richard Lederer
English language is the most universal language in history, way more than the Latin of Julius Caesar. It's the most punderful language because its vocabulary has a certain critical mass that makes a lingo good for punning.
- Richard Lederer
Collection: History
Image of Vera Lynn
We can't change the past but we can learn from history and remember the important things - the sacrifices our loved ones made, and the price of our freedom today.
- Vera Lynn
Collection: History
Image of Kim Il-sung
The oppressed peoples can liberate themselves only through struggle. This is a simple and clear truth confirmed by history.
- Kim Il-sung
Collection: History
Image of Francisco Franco
I am responsible only to God and history.
- Francisco Franco
Collection: History
Image of Thomas Carlyle
No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
- Thomas Carlyle
Collection: History
Image of Eduardo Galeano
History never really says goodbye. History says, 'See you later.'
- Eduardo Galeano
Collection: History
Image of Jeff Greenfield
There are good people who are dealt a bad hand by fate, and bad people who live long, comfortable, privileged lives. A small twist of fate can save or end a life; random chance is a permanent, powerful player in each of our lives, and in human history as well.
- Jeff Greenfield
Collection: History
Image of Shirley Chisholm
I want history to remember me... not as the first black woman to have made a bid for the presidency of the United States, but as a black woman who lived in the 20th century and who dared to be herself. I want to be remembered as a catalyst for change in America.
- Shirley Chisholm
Collection: History
Image of Elie Wiesel
It all happened so fast. The ghetto. The deportation. The sealed cattle car. The fiery altar upon which the history of our people and the future of mankind were meant to be sacrificed.
- Elie Wiesel
Collection: History
Image of John Maynard Keynes
Ideas shape the course of history.
- John Maynard Keynes
Collection: History
Image of Pablo Picasso
I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents.
- Pablo Picasso
Collection: History
Image of Robert Kiyosaki
History reminds us that dictators and despots arise during times of severe economic crisis.
- Robert Kiyosaki
Collection: History
Image of Martin Luther
Blood alone moves the wheels of history.
- Martin Luther
Collection: History
Image of Carlos Fuentes
Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers.
- Carlos Fuentes
Collection: History
Image of Myles Munroe
The people who have impacted the world didn't live long. Martin Luther King. John F. Kennedy. These people who impact the world were not old people, but they lived so effectively that we cannot erase them from history.
- Myles Munroe
Collection: History
Image of Mike Love
The history of mankind is a history of war.
- Mike Love
Collection: History
Image of C. Wright Mills
Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both.
- C. Wright Mills
Collection: History
Image of Lin-Manuel Miranda
History is so subjective. The teller of it determines it.
- Lin-Manuel Miranda
Collection: History
Image of Charles A. Beard
All the lessons of history in four sentences: Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad with power. The mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly small. The bee fertilizes the flower it robs. When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.
- Charles A. Beard
Collection: History
Image of Faith Ringgold
Art is a form of experience of the person, the place, the history of the people, and as black people, we are different. We hail from Africa to America, so the culture is mixed, from the African to the American. We can't drop that. It's reflected in the music, the dance, the poetry, and the art.
- Faith Ringgold
Collection: History
Image of Norodom Sihanouk
Time will inevitably uncover dishonesty and lies; history has no place for them.
- Norodom Sihanouk
Collection: History
Image of Margot Lee Shetterly
You can't change history. These things happened the way they did. What you can change is how you look at it and how you understand that it takes the good moments and it takes the difficult moments to move forward.
- Margot Lee Shetterly
Collection: History
Image of Ronaldo
Football is great because you always have another opportunity to change history.
- Ronaldo
Collection: History
Image of Ronald Reagan
History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.
- Ronald Reagan
Collection: History
Image of Tim Vine
I was reading a book... 'the history of glue' - I couldn't put it down.
- Tim Vine
Collection: History
Image of David Blunkett
I believe Britishness is defined not on ethnic and exclusive grounds but through shared values; our history of tolerance, openness and internationalism; and our commitment to democracy and liberty, to civic duty and the public space.
- David Blunkett
Collection: History
Image of Yvette Clarke
We examine and highlight the history of the African descendants in America, and know that each and every one of us has come this far because of our faith in this country.
- Yvette Clarke
Collection: History
Image of Heber J. Grant
It is a remarkable fact that we can never read or hear of the labors which our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ performed, without taking pleasure in it, while, on the other hand, there is nothing so interesting in the life and history of any other individual but what by hearing or reading it time and time again we become tired of it.
- Heber J. Grant
Collection: History
Image of Henry Adams
I have written too much history to have faith in it; and if anyone thinks I'm wrong, I am inclined to agree with him.
- Henry Adams
Collection: History
Image of David Christian
Modern scientific knowledge appeared piecemeal. Historians wrote about human history; physicists tackled the material world; and biologists studied the world of living organisms. But there were few links between these disciplines, as researchers focused on getting the details right.
- David Christian
Collection: History
Image of David Crystal
English does have a larger vocabulary than other languages because of its history as the primary language of science and its global reach.
- David Crystal
Collection: History
Image of Peter Ackroyd
'London' is a gallery of sensation of impressions. It is a history of London in a thematic rather than a chronological sense with chapters of the history of smells, the history of silence, and the history of light. I have described the book as a labyrinth, and in that sense in complements my description of London itself.
- Peter Ackroyd
Collection: History
Image of Edmund Morgan
The first English settlers of North America knew they were making history. New Englanders in particular were so sure of it that they started writing their own accounts of themselves as soon as they got here.
- Edmund Morgan
Collection: History
Image of James J. Hill
If you review the commercial history, you will discover anyone who controls oriental trade will get hold of global wealth.
- James J. Hill
Collection: History
Image of Edward Gibbon
History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.
- Edward Gibbon
Collection: History
Image of Francis Cabot Lowell
Gardeners instinctively know that flowers and plants are a continuum and that the wheel of garden history will always be coming full circle.
- Francis Cabot Lowell
Collection: History
Image of Susannah Cahalan
My own medical history during my hospital stay was readily available to me through literally thousands of pages of medical records that outlined everything from my 'bowel releasing' schedule to the minute details of my brain biopsy procedure.
- Susannah Cahalan
Collection: History
Image of Niall Ferguson
Oral history is a recipe for complete misrepresentation because almost no one tells the truth, even when they intend to.
- Niall Ferguson
Collection: History
Image of Peter Dinklage
There's a thing at the Museum of Natural History in New York, where I live: they have a stairwell where you follow the beginning and the course of this planet, and it's a very long stairwell, and you follow, and you follow, and then you reach the top, and we're, like, half a step on the stairwell - the timeline for us on this planet.
- Peter Dinklage
Collection: History
Image of Tony Robinson
I've never really seen archaeology as being any different from history. What I love are the stories of human beings that were around 1,000 years ago and how they lived - archaeology is another aspect to that.
- Tony Robinson
Collection: History
Image of Penelope Keith
A lot of people have it - that fantasy of being lord or lady of the manor, either in the present or at some time in history.
- Penelope Keith
Collection: History
Image of Tom Perez
On July 2, 1964, President Johnson signed into law the Civil Rights Act. Its enactment, following the longest continuous debate in the history of the U.S. Senate, enshrined into law the basic principle upon which our country was founded - that all people are created equal.
- Tom Perez
Collection: History
Image of Marty Meehan
As we celebrate Black History Month we should be grateful for the achievements they made and inspired by their legacies to continue their work.
- Marty Meehan
Collection: History