When you’re around your family, and you have that history and that shared language, you say things you’d be embarrassed to hear quoted back to you later. – Noah Baumbach
In the year of our Lord 2010, the voters of the United States elected the worst Congress in the history of the Republic. There have been Congresses more dilatory. There have been Congresses more irresponsible, though not many of them. – Charlie Pierce
What gets in our way is history and culture and religion and economic conditions. It is part of the hypnosis of our social conditioning. – Deepak Chopra
I have thoroughly gone through the subject of the Incarnation; and if it served you, could at any time give you the history from the beginning of the controversies on this subject, and of its present form. – Edward Irving
Imagine stepping into the shoes of Roberto Duran, one of the most legendary boxers in the history of the sport, and definitely the most legendary Latin American boxer, and then having ‘Raging Bull’ in my corner. I mean, imagine that? Just having Robert De Niro to play the trainer in the movie, that was fantastic. – Edgar Ramirez
We made history when President Obama appointed Sonia Sotomayor, a proud Latina, the first Hispanic Supreme Court justice. And as the President likes to say, ‘Every single one of them wasn’t just the best Latino for the job, but the best person for the job.’ – Charlie Gonzalez
By failing seriously to confront the most predicable economic crisis in our nation’s history, the President’s policies are committing us and our children to a diminished future. – Paul Ryan
In the early days of aviation, there was a great deal of experimentation and a high death rate. – Elon Musk
Kids deserve arts, and it’s just as important as science, math, history, English or athletics. – Flea
I think we’re struggling with trying to redefine various positions at this point in history. To allow freedom for women, freedom for men, freedom from those sharply defined gender roles. – Fred Ward
The history of nations shows that words are not always immediately followed by action. – Gustav Stresemann
When I was five, we moved to Virginia and lived inside an old fort that was surrounded by a moat. So when I heard stories of American history, I felt as if those dramas were taking place right in my own backyard. – Mary Pope Osborne
Each side tries to legitimize their aims by appealing to history, sometimes selectively choosing episodes and other times just by inventing history. – Norman Davies
It is a curious thing: man, the centre and creator of all science, is the only object which our science has not yet succeeded in including in a homogeneous representation of the universe. We know the history of his bones, but no ordered place has yet been found in nature for his reflective intelligence. – Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Tony Kaye is great with that kind of stuff. Up until American History X, he had only done commercials. – Ethan Suplee
It is idle to say that nations can struggle to outdo each other in building armaments and never use them. History demonstrates the contrary, and we have but to go back to the last war to see the appalling effect of nations competing in great armaments. – Frank B. Kellogg
English has been this vacuum cleaner of a language, because of its history meeting up with the Romans and then the Danes, the Vikings and then the French and then the Renaissance with all the Latin and Greek and Hebrew in the background. – David Crystal
I had this sense that I was part of, sort of a lineage of artists and writers through history that have had mood disorders. – Ellen Forney
Too much detail can bog down any story. Enough with the history of gunpowder, the geology of Hawaii, the processes of whaling, and cactus and tumbleweed. – Edward M. Lerner
I do belong to the club which doesn’t see a distinction between academic history and popular history. – Norman Davies
Is there in all the history of human folly a greater fool than a clergymen in politics? – Pat Robertson
Governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deducted from it. – Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
My history has been to grow the roots as deeply as you can before going on to the next thing. That’s why it took 10 years to go from Union Square Cafe to Gramercy Tavern, and another 10 years to go from Blue Smoke’s first location to its second, and five to go from Shake Shack 1 to Shake Shack 2. – Danny Meyer
I’ve become sort of an accidental advocate for attachment parenting, which is a style of parenting that… basically, the way mammals parent and the way people have parented for pretty much all of human history except the last 200 years or so. – Mayim Bialik
A lot of them want to come and play for Manchester United. They want to play because Alex has a record of giving youth a chance and we have the history and heritage of Manchester United. – David Gill