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It's an idea-an idea that, according to the history expert somewhere in my left brain, was abolished in 1865. — Neal Shusterman

History was like looking into others' lives, learning how they lived, what they did, how they thought, and even how they loved. — Max Vos

History is something that very few people have been doing while everyone else was ploughing fields and carrying water buckets. — Yuval Noah Harari

History was easy, but I don't know about the Calculus. It seemed like it was making sense, so that probably means I failed. — Stephenie Meyer

I wrote 'The Painted Word,' about modern art, and was denounced as reactionary. In fact, it is just a history, although a rather loaded one. — Tom Wolfe

So on June 16, 1970, history was made in Newark. Ken Gibson became the first black mayor of a major Northeastern city. — Junius Williams

If you study the history and records of the world you must admit that the source of justice was the fear of injustice. — Horace

Lahore was a different world in its own; the busy life, the rich history, the colourful culture, and the unfamiliar faces — Javaria Waseem

Never underestimate what teens can understand or do. They're smart, creative, and fresh-minded. I wish I was one. — Brook Tesla

Could it be that simple? Tell one story to one generation and repeat it until it was accepted as fact? — Kiera Cass

The saddest day in Pixar history was when some guy said 'get Larry the Cable Guy on the phone. — Andy Kindler

Four rehabs meant a fifth was somewhere down the road. — John Grisham

September 11th was a moment when America had the sympathy of the world. — Tom Ford

In my generation, history was taught in terms of grand figures, men on whom the destiny of the nation hinged, quintessential heroes. — Barry Unsworth

Everybody was calling. I think everybody called every player in the league. Thats history right there. — Dwyane Wade

Truly, Buffon was the father of all thought in natural history in the second half of the 18th century. — Ernst W. Mayr

Truth is undoubtedly the sort of error that cannot be refuted because it was hardened into an unalterable form in the long baking process of history — Michel Foucault

Indeed. But I was not thinking of his immortal soul, Matilda. I was thinking that history is chronicled by monks. — Sharon Kay Penman

Nowadays people think that history is what was on TV last night. — Michael Dibdin

Photos of yesterday give good evidence of how yesterday was and they are a true prove of history! — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

[I]t wasn't history that was too fragile, but me. — Jessi Kirby

If you go back to any period in India's history, all the hard decisions this country had to take were taken when the Congress was in power. — P. Chidambaram

History was about to be made. Or, if not actually made, then torn apart. — Trevor Baxendale

I can hear the Colonel - no land was ever acquired honestly in the history of the earth - but it does not make me feel any better. — Philipp Meyer

Ryan [Gosling] has a history with the Mickey Mouse Club. He was a child performer himself. And he took the time to get to know people. — Joel Silver

History meant nothing, because the only continuity was human stupidity. — Steven Erikson

There was something so heavy about the burden of history, of the past. I wasn't sure I had it in me to keep looking back. — Sarah Dessen

There are several books out on punk history, but I haven't read any of them. I was there. — Greg Ginn

History is no longer as it was for the Greeks, an anamnesis, a remembrance. It is rather a thrust into the future. — Gustavo Gutierrez

We were not told how Alexander the Great was the last person in history to successfully 'pacify' what would become Afghanistan, over 2,000 years ago. — Jake Wood

Despite our differences, we did have a history. No one understood where I was coming from the way he did. — Sarah Dessen

I was a history major in school. I review the past a lot and think about music history and how culture unfolds. — Bruce Pavitt

The author says that though the Mexican War wound down, the interpretation of it was just beginning. — Harold Holzer

There is not one incident in the history of humanity in which defeatism led to peace which was anything other than a complete fraud. — Douglas MacArthur

You are the culmination of all that ever was. You are the highest point of the vast pyramid of history and of your own life. — Bryant McGill

The headmistress was an able instructress in French and history and we learned with her as fast as fear could teach us. — Cyril Connolly

I knew I was alone in a way that no earthling has ever been before. — Michael Collins

The resurrection was God's way of stamping PAID IN FULL right across history so that nobody could miss it. — Timothy Keller

The first great skeptic of American exceptionalism, he refused to believe that the country was exempt from the sober lessons of history. — Ron Chernow

The historic atmosphere was there, certainly; but the historic atmosphere, scientifically considered, was no better than a villainous miasma — Henry James

For centuries, everything was taught through music. History was taught through music; language and mathematics were taught through music. — T Bone Burnett

My working history as an actor is definitely in the theatre; it certainly was in Australia. — Yael Stone

Comedy has had no history, because it was not at first treated seriously. — Aristotle.

Everyone wanted to create his own history. There was nothing as powerful as the written word; history had taught them all that much. — Ted Dekker

The military operation in Lebanon was the most successful military operation in recent Israeli history. Many in Israel don't recognise that. — Ehud Olmert

Believe me when I say that some of the most amazing music in history was made on equipment that's not as good as what you own right now. — Jol Dantzig

Everything which made Abraham Lincoln the loved and honored man he was, it is in the power of the humblest American boy to imitate. — New York Times

The resurrection of Jesus was like a boulder crashing into the pool of history. — Karl Barth

There was no time to lose, no time to waste in rest or play. The life of the earth comes up with a rush in the springtime. — Laura Ingalls Wilder

We just held each other for warmth. I cannot recall that we even spoke to one another. Such was our shock. That day we learnt a new word - war. — P.J. Whittlesea

To me, Cary Grant is probably the most fashionable man in the history of Hollywood. The guy was just slick. He did it so effortlessly. — Reid Scott

Isabel saw all their lives becoming history in units of days and nights so fatally private there was no one left for her to love. — Jim Harrison

Before Lind's experiments, scurvy was not clearly defined as a disease.The term was used as a catchphrase to include all manner of nautical ailments. — Stephen R. Bown

From the time I was a little boy I found myself reading history when I had a choice. I read a lot of things, but history had a special appeal for me. — Donald Kagan

The ascension of Jesus was the supreme political event of world history. He ascended not so much — R.C. Sproul

Sleep was the greatest invention in the history of mankind. When I was sleeping, I wasn't feeling guilty, or miserable, or sad. — Jenna Black

... what I told them was 'a poem,' a thing made by a maker, a work of art, part history of long ago, part invention. — Ursula K. Le Guin

My history writing was based on what I saw in strange, exotic places rather than just reading books. — Tony Judt

A railroad station? That was sort of a primitive airport, only you didn't have to take a cab 20 miles out of town to reach it. — Russell Baker

The Iraq War was the first conflict in western history in which an imperialist war was massively protested against before it had even been launched. — Noam Chomsky

All God's righteous hatred of all that sin from all of human history was poured out upon Christ as He hung there on that cross. — James MacDonald

When I began to act, I was about 6 years old. Everything you learned, every period of history you studied, you did a play about it. — Marian Seldes

One week ago I said that cloning of mammals was years away ... it is fun to be alive at this point in history. — Anders Sandberg

Being a noninvasive advanced civilization
was the biggest mistake of Batak Kingdom. — Toba Beta

James Tilly Matthews was not a prophet. He was a gifted, perhaps fragile individual who suffered intensely, and for little if any reward. — Mike Jay

The past in the hands of historians is not what it was. — Lynn Townsend White Jr.

It was the greatest, most intricate, most ingenious and most costly rescue mission in all of human history. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

I was able to endure and play a special part in music history. And I always managed to keep working, even if I wasn't a big solo artist. — Merry Clayton

Jason smiled. The sound of wings was louder now, the fluttering of angels come to carry him home. — Robert Ferrigno

I was on tour with Michael Jackson for a while; I did the 'Dangerous' and 'History' tours. I was also on tour with Diana Ross. — Cris Judd

If greatness was easy to attain, everyone's name would be in history books. — Matshona Dhliwayo

If you could not accept the past and its burden there was no future, for without one there cannot be the other. — Robert Penn Warren

That eugenics was part of the progressive agenda is one of the most heavily-airbrushed features of history. — Arnold Kling

I was thinking that a life is just the history of what we give our attention to,' said Patrick. 'The rest is packaging. — Edward St. Aubyn

If it was not for Rajiv Gandhi, urbanization in India would have been history. — Kushal Pal Singh

how inevitable it was that the aristocrat would refuse his final duty - which was to step aside and vanish into history. — Frank Herbert

What was the point of living through history if you didn't record it? — Tatjana Soli

It was being written in the East that 'Sufism was formerly a reality without a name: now it is a name without a reality'. — Idries Shah

I almost failed drama at school. I hated it. It was all about the history of theatre. — Brenton Thwaites

I did magic all my life from the time I was 12, and I like to tap into the magic from history. — Marco Tempest

The history of the development of contemporary writing in Vancouver from 1946 to 1960 is pretty largely a one-man show, and that man was me. — Earle Birney

I thought those were others. Soon, I was to learn that they were us. — Ralph Webster

I also knew that I was on my way to becoming the worst athlete in the history of American boyhood. — Frank Rich

Was it possible to be homesick for a soul? — Jessica Dotta

The United States was the first country in the history of the world to be consciously created out of an idea - and the idea was liberty. — Nathaniel Branden

He had always despised people who thought about the past. To live was to leave behind; to be as free as a shipwrecked man who has lost everything. — Graham Greene

History began July 4, 1776. Anything before that was a mistake. — Ron Swanson

Almost every major turning point in the history of mankind was a side-effect of totally unrelated intentions. — Abram Gitspof

For most of history, almost everyone was poor. Power and wealth belonged to only a few. — Marco Rubio

Now according to German logic, a declaration of war was found to be unnecessary because of imaginary bombings — Barbara W. Tuchman

I was bused to a school in Gerritsen Beach in Brooklyn in 1972. I was one of the first black kids in the history of the school. — Chris Rock

There was one great tomb more lordly than all the rest; huge it was, and nobly proportioned. On it was but one word, DRACULA. — Bram Stoker

September 11 awoke us to the threat of terrorism. It was forever bookmarked in our history as the day when life as Americans knew it, changed forever. — Randy Forbes

America was not willing to chop down the Empire on October 26, 1774, but it was gripping the ax. — C.L. Gammon

I was never very good at history, but I was pretty sure douchebags like Hitler didn't laugh very much. — Rick Yancey

Vidal Sassoon was the most famous hairstylist in the history of the world. — John Paul DeJoria

There was no more dangerous a time in a nation's life than the passing of a ruler when the succession was in doubt. — Leanda De Lisle

Their free verse was no form at all, yet it made history. — John Crowe Ransom

There was a time in American history when almost every white person knew who Aretha Franklin was. — Peabo Bryson

No one wanted to hear that people other than themselves might be complicated, that no one was ever just one thing, no history ever just one version. — Patrick Ness