At the first general meeting of this Corporation in 1820, his Lordship presided; a circumstance, which may well be considered an era in the history of the Church of Upper Canada. – John Strachan
It’s definitely particular to each situation, but whether it is a long history or someone that you’re intimidated by or someone that you didn’t think you ever had a shot at, at the end of the day, I think we’re all living through high school, every day. – John Krasinski
If you take a guy like a Barack Obama, who’s raised millions of dollars from the most donors in the history of this nation, it suggests that there’s a deep and profound hunger for a new politics to come forth. And a guy like him has been able to mobilize that and to reach certain parts of the hip-hop generation. – Michael Eric Dyson
L.A. prides itself on newness or being the last frontier or just not liking old things and tearing them down to build new things. But Malibu history is interesting to me. My mom’s family was one of the early families in California, so there’s history going back to the 1840s or ’50s. – Kim Gordon
This is the most historic moment in Supreme Court history in our lifetime, no question about it. These are justices who are going to serve for decades. – Jay Alan Sekulow
I love thinking about American history, thinking about LA history. I love brooding on crime. – James Ellroy
Most of the fiction on the California Gold Rush makes it sound like one grand, boyish adventure. However, when you read the real history, you realize that it wasn’t that way at all. – Laurence Yep
If you look at the history of communication, new technologies like the phone and e-mail didn’t just let people do things faster; it fundamentally changed the scope of the kinds of projects people dared to take on. – Justin Rosenstein
Afghan women, as a group, I think their suffering has been equaled by very few other groups in recent world history. – Khaled Hosseini
Winning and making history is something you can’t buy. Me? I’m a guy who loves history. When I’m 60 or 70, I don’t want to be remembered for the money I make. I want to be in the history books. – LaMarr Woodley
Thousands of years of human history have shown that the ideal setting for children to grow up is with a mother and a father committed to one another, living together, and sharing the responsibility of raising their children. – Marco Rubio
When you look back in history and see other fighters coming back, it’s never really been good for them. – Lennox Lewis
Psychology keeps trying to vindicate human nature. History keeps undermining the effort. – Mason Cooley
If you look at the history of big obstacles in understanding our world, there’s usually an intuitive assumption underlying them that’s wrong. – Jeff Hawkins
I really like to look like a history book. I can look 1940s, I can look 1970s hippie-chic, or sometimes I’ll pull that ’80s Brooklyn hip-hop kid with the door-knocker earrings. – Katy Perry
Yes, they broke the law, but we can’t deport them. Let’s get over this pointing fingers and do something about that, whether it – they have to pay a fine, learn to speak English, the history, you can do that. And then you have to give visas for the skills we need. – Michael Bloomberg
I’m from a very violent city. I’m from New Orleans, Louisiana, and it’s good to see me be able to express my art, have a good opportunity for my life, make history and say something, without being violent. – Jason Mitchell
My individual way of taking on the burdens of history has changed. I don’t think of them only as burdens; I think they are honorable. – Margo Jefferson
I really discovered I had thyroid disease by accident. My son was having some health concerns, and as I filled out his patient history I noticed I had a lot of similar symptoms. I mentioned it to the doctor, and he ran blood work and finally an ultrasound of my thyroid. – Kim Alexis
I’m not an overnight success. My early publishing history, through my first five books, was unfortunate in many respects, typified by a couple of short anecdotes. – John Lescroart
There was never anything like it before in history. It was a different kind of joyous, happy screaming. – Jo Stafford
No boxer in the history of boxing has had Parkinson’s. There’s no injury in my brain that suggests that the illness came from boxing. – Muhammad Ali
The Voting Rights Act of 1965 brought an end to the ugly Jim Crow period in American history. – Lisa Murkowski
Telling stories and having them received is so important. That dialogue is everything. I tell my students all the time that what separates us as human beings is our ability to hold stories. Our narrative history. There is so much power in that. Storytelling is our human industry. – Kathi Appelt