You may write me down in history with your bitter, twisted lines. You may trod me in the very dirt, but still, like dust, I’ll rise. – Maya Angelou
This recognition of the earlier human background, now so obvious to us, did not come all at once, for the inclusion of history itself in university instruction is an event less than two centuries old. – James Henry Breasted
I grew up here, and it’s always been a very diverse community. So for people to come out and say that there’s some long-standing anger or there’s a history of racial tension is absolutely ridiculous. There’s not a black-white divide in Ferguson. – James Knowles III
The science of politics is the one science that is deposited by the streams of history, like the grains of gold in the sand of a river; and the knowledge of the past, the record of truths revealed by experience, is eminently practical, as an instrument of action and a power that goes to making the future. – Lord Acton
I’ve been lucky. I’ve had this history of having an appeal to more than one type of audience. – Juice Newton
Was the real Jesus of history one and the same as the Christ of faith whom we read about in the New Testament and worship in the church? Was Jesus really raised from the dead? Is he really the divine Lord of lords? – John Clayton
Pearl Harbor? Michael Bay doing a movie about the single most devastating, most holy day in United States military history? Why, that’s like the Three Stooges doing a Holocaust movie. Or Barney doing ‘Hamlet’. – Jeanne Marie Laskas
You have reckoned that history ought to judge the past and to instruct the contemporary world as to the future. The present attempt does not yield to that high office. It will merely tell how it really was. – Leopold Von Ranke
If philosophy is practice, a demand to know the manner in which its history is to be studied is entailed: a theoretical attitude toward it becomes real only in the living appropriation of its contents from the texts. – Karl Jaspers
I always wondered what it was like to be just a normal kid growing up in trying times or during a great moment in history. – Kathryn Lasky
I was reading a lot of European history, and I thought Attila the Hun had gotten a bad rap. – Katherine Dunn
I’m not really well educated – other than an art survey course at the High School of Art and Design in New York when I was, like, 15. I don’t know the history of art, but I got over intimidation from the art world when I realized that I was allowed to feel whatever I want and like whatever I want. – Marc Jacobs
History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people. – Martin Luther King, Jr.
If you look back through history in the United States, there have been very few landslide elections. Half the country always voted for someone else. – Kevin Spacey
I am privileged to be a citizen of the single greatest society in all of human history. – Marco Rubio
When I read Thirteen Days I was moved by it. It was just a great time for the world, in terms of looking back in history and seeing how we got ourselves into trouble and how we got ourselves out of trouble. – Kevin Costner
The worst thing about Halloween is, of course, candy corn. It’s unbelievable to me. Candy corn is the only candy in the history of America that’s never been advertised. And there’s a reason. All of the candy corn that was ever made was made in 1911. And so, since nobody eats that stuff, every year there’s a ton of it left over. – Lewis Black
For much of history it was possible to believe that the great diversity of life on Earth was a fixed creation, that the living world had never changed. But when the first stirrings of industry demanded that fuel be dug from the earth and hillsides be leveled for roads and railways, the Earth’s true past was dug up in abundance. – Kenneth R. Miller
Many new lovers and spouses struggle to reconcile themselves with their partners’ relationship history, but it’s an insecurity I left behind in my 20s. – Mariella Frostrup
History should belong to all of us, and it needs to include people from different cultural backgrounds. Otherwise, it risks becoming irrelevant to children, who could then become disenchanted with education. – Malorie Blackman
Often, when you look at history, at least through the lens that many of us have looked at history – high school and college courses – a lot of the color gets bled out of it. You’re left with a time period that does not look as strange and irrational as the time you’re actually living through. – Karen Joy Fowler
The history of the intelligence community is replete with violations of the trust of the American people. – James R. Clapper
Nothing in your past is in your present making you do anything you don’t choose to do. You are not your past history! You are not your past failures! You are not how others have at one time treated you! You are only who you are and what you do now in this moment. – Karen Salmansohn
People who like to fume about the manner in which Disney changed beloved classics are often ignorant of history, not to mention the realities of show business. – Kage Baker
For most of human history, there was a ruling class and then there was everybody else. If you were part of everybody else, it wasn’t your job to imagine a different future, different ways of doing things. So, imagination is a fairly modern phenomenon. – Jay S. Walker
I am very proud to come back, to speak on the disinterested effort we have made and I believe that, with all due respect, that the decisions we made, when we turned our final report over to President Johnson, will stand in history. – John Sherman Cooper