3 December 2020 Barbara Tuchman Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.
3 December 2020 Timothy Leary We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. But they’ve got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go.
3 December 2020 Charles de Gaulle I have tried to lift France out of the mud. But she will return to her errors and vomitings. I cannot prevent the French from being French.
3 December 2020 Maya Angelou History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.
3 December 2020 Garth Brooks There’s a difference between knowing what’s on the page in a history book and actually feeling that page have curves and valleys.
3 December 2020 Robert A. Heinlein One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest authority about what could not be done and could never happen.
3 December 2020 Salma Hayek I have never denied my background or my culture. I have taught my child to embrace her Mexican heritage, to love my first language, Spanish, to learn about Mexican history, music, folk art, food, and even the Mexican candy I grew up with.
3 December 2020 Franklin D. Roosevelt The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.
3 December 2020 Carl T. Rowan The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history.
3 December 2020 Harry S. Truman Nixon is one of the few in the history of this country to run for high office talking out of both sides of his mouth at the same time and lying out of both sides.
3 December 2020 Daniel Craig It’s a huge challenge, a huge responsibility. Bond is a huge iconic figure in movie history. These opportunities don’t come along very often so I thought, ‘Why not?’
3 December 2020 Michael Beschloss To people who remember JFK’s assassination, JFK Jr. will probably always be that boy saluting his father’s coffin.
3 December 2020 Malcolm Forbes It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing Prison or Harvard. We hire a man, not his history.
3 December 2020 A. Whitney Brown The past actually happened but history is only what someone wrote down.
3 December 2020 Dave Barry The Internet is the most important single development in the history of human communication since the invention of call waiting.
3 December 2020 Joan Rivers Yeah, I read history. But it doesn’t make you nice. Hitler read history, too.
3 December 2020 LL Cool J I’m not giving up my history and what I’ve done in my music because I love it and I’m very proud of it. I just want to open it up for more people.
3 December 2020 George Washington The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.
3 December 2020 James Lovelock There is little evidence that our individual intelligence has improved through recorded history.
3 December 2020 Elie Wiesel Now, when I hear that Christians are getting together in order to defend the people of Israel, of course it brings joy to my heart. And it simply says, look, people have learned from history.
3 December 2020 Renata Adler It is always self-defeating to pretend to a generation younger than your own it simply erases your own experience in history.
3 December 2020 Karl Marx The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it.
3 December 2020 Desmond Tutu If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.
3 December 2020 Conrad Black Rupert Murdoch is probably the most successful media proprietor and operator in history.
