Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is God's gift, that's why we call it the present. - Joan Rivers Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. And today? Today is a gift. That's why we call it the present. - Babatunde Olatunji

I think there has been a great deal of valuable revisionism in women's history. - Antonia Fraser Like their personal lives, women's history is fragmented, interrupted; a shadow history of human beings whose existence has been shaped by the efforts and the demands of others. - Elizabeth Janeway It's a shame for women's history to be all about men--first boys, then other boys, then men men men. It reminds me of the way our school history textbooks were all about wars and elections, one war after another, with the dull periods of peace skimmed over whenever they occurred. (Our teachers deplored this and added extra units about social history and protest movements, but that was still the message of the books.) - Elizabeth Kostova Dieting is the most potent political sedative in women's history; a quietly mad population is a tractable one. - Naomi Wolf A culture fixated on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty, but an obsession about female obedien...

What is history but a fable agreed upon? - Napoleon Bonaparte What is history? Any thoughts, Webster?' 'History is the lies of the victors,' I replied, a little too quickly. 'Yes, I was rather afraid you'd say that. Well, as long as you remember that it is also the self-delusions of the defeated.... 'Finn?' '"History is that certainty produced at the point where the imperfections of memory meet the inadequacies of documentation." (quoting Patrick Lagrange) - Julian Barnes History is a commentary on the various and continuing incapabilities of men. What is history? History is women following behind with the bucket. - Alan Bennett History is always written by the winners. When two cultures clash, the loser is obliterated, and the winner writes the history books-books which glorify their own cause and disparage the conquered foe. As Napoleon once said, 'What is history, but a fable agreed upon? - Dan Brown What is history? The lie that ev...

This book is merely a personal narrative, and not a pretentious history or a philosophical dissertation. It is a record of several years of variegated vagabondizing, and it's object is rather to help the resting reader while away an idle hour than afflict him with metaphysics, or goad him with science. - Mark Twain If you look at U.S. history through religious history, there is very much a motif that shows the importance religion has played in the U.S. We're a very religious country and it affects the way we look at various political issues. - Madeleine Albright Marxism conceives of the new system of socialism as the necessary outcome of all previous history made possible and necessary only by that previous history. - Earl Browder The ability of Americans to toss off oppressive characters is the most rewarding aspect, to me, of U.S. history. - Norman Corwin It's a penis," Margo said, "in the same sense that Rhode Island is a state: it may have an illustrious ...

I must study Politicks and War that my sons may have liberty to study Mathematicks and Philosophy. My sons ought to study Mathematicks and Philosophy, Geography, natural History, Naval Architecture, navigation, Commerce and Agriculture, in order to give their Children a right to study Painting, Poetry, Musick, Architecture, Statuary, Tapestry and Porcelaine. (12 May 1780) - John Adams I must study politics and war, that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history and naval architecture, navigation, commerce, and agriculture, in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain. - John Quincy Adams In the old days... it was a basic, cardinal fact that producers didn't have opinions. When I was producing natural history programmes, I didn't use them as vehicles for my own opinion. They were factual programmes. - David Attenborough The process of making natural his...

More than anything I wish he were here with me. "A relationship is an accumulation of shared history," he'd said to me once. And here I was making history without him. It's lonely. And I can't wait to go home. Parts of me are showing through my Aqua, and I'm having a hard time keeping them separate. - Josh Kilmer Purcell Today is either the beginning of the end, or the end of the beginning. Today we are making history. - Eckhard Pfeiffer in writing like this, he was letting truth from beyond time into history, and thus making history the handmaid of posterity and not its governor.. - Philip Pullman She'd like to bounce me off the ceiling." "Oh aye,that she would, but she's not trying it at the moment.You're doing well, too." His gaze lifted until his eyes met Keeley's. "As natural at this as she is.Blue bloods, both of you." "Are we making history,Brian?" "Bet on it," he told her and kissed Betty ...

Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better. - Harry S Truman Anybody can make history; only a great man can write it. - Oscar Wilde If, after all, men cannot always make history have a meaning, they can always act so that their own lives have one. - Albert Camus The main thing is to make history, not to write it. - Otto Von Bismarck People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make. - Gilbert K Chesterton There are two kinds of man: the ones who make history and the ones who endure it. - Camilo Jose Cela The people who make history are not the people who make it who are there but the people who make it and then write about it. - Julian Cope While we read history we make history. - George William Curtis It is not heroes that make history, but history that mak...

I went further and further back through the centuries to get a sense of perspective but now at least I understand why Irish history evokes such strong passions and emotions. - James Darcy Like a lot of Irish households we read a lot of Irish history. It was almost Soviet, raising the next generation with a mythic view of their history. - Fiona Shaw

All I know is that history repeats itself and people are going to want to experience the world. But I know then they are going to have a better appreciation for what is here in Maine. - John Baldacci History repeats itself only in that, from afar, we all seem to lead exactly the same life. We are all born; we all spend time here on earth; we all die. But, up close, we have each walked down our own separate paths. We have stood at our own lonely crossroads. We have touched the lives of others at crucial points, for better or for worse. In the end, each of us has lived a unique life story, astounding and complicated, a story taht could never be repeated. - Edward Bloor If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience. - George Bernard Shaw History repeats itself, but the special call of an art which has passed away is never reproduced. It is as utterly gone out of the world as the song of a destroyed wild bird. - Jos...

All I know is that history repeats itself and people are going to want to experience the world. But I know then they are going to have a better appreciation for what is here in Maine. - John Baldacci History repeats itself only in that, from afar, we all seem to lead exactly the same life. We are all born; we all spend time here on earth; we all die. But, up close, we have each walked down our own separate paths. We have stood at our own lonely crossroads. We have touched the lives of others at crucial points, for better or for worse. In the end, each of us has lived a unique life story, astounding and complicated, a story taht could never be repeated. - Edward Bloor If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience. - George Bernard Shaw History repeats itself, but the special call of an art which has passed away is never reproduced. It is as utterly gone out of the world as the song of a destroyed wild bird. - Jos...

The history of our race, and each individual's experience, are sown thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill and that a lie told well is immortal. - Mark Twain I did this within a philosophical framework, and a moral and legal framework. And I have been turned into a cartoon of the greatest villain in the history of lobbying. - Jack Abramoff When I was a graduate student, the leading spirits at Harvard were interested in the history of ideas. - M H Abrams Mercy!" cried Gandalf. "If the giving of knowledge is to be the cure of your inquisitiveness, I shall spend all the rest of my days in answering you. What more should you like to know?" "The names of all the stars, and of all living things, and the whole history of Middle-Earth and Over-heave and of the Sundering Seas," laughed Pippin. "Of course! What less? - J R R Tolkien History often resembles myth, because they are both ultimately of the same stuff. - J R R Tolkien Meanwhile, th...

Wanna go study about incestuous royal families and bloody murders?' she asked him. 'Or do you wanna study European history instead? - Robin Benway John Paul II, above all, managed to contain the huge mass of frustration, of hate that had accumulated in that region, in favour of a peaceful transition. This was, without doubt, something that changed European history. - Rocco Buttiglione More than forty years of Communist rule in Central and Eastern Europe resulted in an unhappy and artificial division of Europe. It is this dark chapter of European history that we now have the opportunity to close. - Anders Fogh Rasmussen Every person comes with a place. It can be a house, a park, a building. When you meet someone, you are unknowingly meeting a place, a two-for-one deal that neither party is really aware of yet. Regular Joe's is Marcus' place. Mine is the library, second floor, nonfiction, the table between the Poker aisle and European History. Two-thousand days of fri...

The great themes of Canadian history are as follows: Keeping the Americans out, keeping the French in, and trying to get the Natives to somehow disappear. - Will Ferguson When I was in school, all our history books were American, so we learned American history, not Canadian history. - Dave Foley The trial of Ernst Zundel has gone down in Canadian history. - Ernst Zundel

Sort of like what Joruus C'baoth did for Thrawn." "I'm not talking about ancient history, I'm talking about now." Luke & Jaina - Aaron Allston GWENDOLEN Even men of the noblest possible moral character are extremely susceptible to the influence of the physical charms of others. Modern, no less then Ancient History, supplies us with many most painful examples of what I refer to. If it were not so, indeed, History would be quite unreadable. - Oscar Wilde I couldn't miss Percy's fifteenth birthday," Poseidon said. "Why, if this were Sparta, Percy would be a man today!" That's true," Paul said. "I used to teach ancient history." Poseidon's eyes twinkled. "That's me. Ancient history. - Rick Riordan that's me. ancient history. [Poseidon to Paul] - Rick Riordan I guess high school really is ancient history, she concludes. Ancient history? Have you really relegated us to the trash heap of the Dumb Hi...

American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it. - James Baldwin The Obama administration and the Democratic Congress have taken the biggest lurch to the left in policy in American history. There've been no - no Congress, no administration that has run this far to the left in such a small period of time. And there is a reaction to that. - Haley Barbour Bill and Hillary Clinton are the most investigated couple in American history - now the most thoroughly exonerated couple in American history. - Paul Begala First of all, there's no mention of political parties in the Constitution, so you begin American history with not only no political conventions but also no parties. - Michael Beschloss English history is all about men liking their fathers, and American history is all about men hating their fathers and trying to burn down everything they ever did. - Malcolm Bradbury There was a time in Americ...