No country in history ever sent mothers of toddlers off to fight enemy soldiers until the United States did this in the Iraq war. Phyllis Schlafly on history
The Middle East has the highest unemployment percentage of any region in the world we have the largest youth cohort of history coming into the market place that frustration does translate into the political sphere when people are hungry and without jobs. King Abdullah II on history
I've been fortunate over my career to make a little history on the 16th hole at Augusta National. Jack Nicklaus on history
Having a track record to live up to and the history of successes had become a hindrance. It becomes harder to break out of what people expect you to do. Paul Simon on history
No matter how vital experience might be while you lived it, no sooner was it ended and dead than it became as lifeless as the piles of dry dust in a school history book. Ellen Glasgow on history
There's no one place a virus goes to die - but that doesn't make its demise any less a public health victory. Throughout human history, viral diseases have had their way with us, and for just as long, we have hunted them down and done our best to wipe them out. Jeffrey Kluger on history
War had always seemed to me to be a purely human behavior. Accounts of warlike behavior date back to the very first written records of human history it seemed to be an almost universal characteristic of human groups. Jane Goodall on history
I think I was a good student, because I jumped over a school. My main interest was basically history and literature. Sports were basically basketball and swimming at a pool. I was so happy. Shimon Peres on history
The Jews' greatest contribution to history is dissatisfaction! We're a nation born to be discontented. Whatever exists we believe can be changed for the better. Shimon Peres on history
Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous. Barbara Ehrenreich on history
When it went on the air, the sales department hated it. It was the highest advertising pullout show in the history of NBC. At the early focus groups, people were saying, 'Who are these people? Why should we watch them? Dick Wolf on history
To be Jewish is to be specifically identified with a history. And if you're not aware of that when you're a child, the whole tradition is lost. Joyce Carol Oates on history
In fact history does not belong to us but we belong to it. Hans-Georg Gadamer on history
It seems disingenuous to ask a writer why she, or he, is writing about a violent subject when the world and history are filled with violence. Joyce Carol Oates on history
Faith is a kind of winged intellect. The great workmen of history have been men who believed like giants. Charles Henry Parkhurst on history
People don't always realize that my parents shared a sense of intellectual curiosity and a love of reading and of history. Caroline Kennedy on history
The only justification for repressive institutions is material and cultural deficit. But such institutions, at certain stages of history, perpetuate and produce such a deficit, and even threaten human survival. Noam Chomsky on history
The Deep South has a completely different history, both good and bad, that is fascinating for everybody. It makes people work together who usually don't, and that sounds like a cliche in so many ways, but it actually happened... and it happened because of a beautiful idea. Genevieve Gorder on history
In my world, history comes down to language and art. No one cares much about what battles were fought, who won them and who lost them - unless there is a painting, a play, a song or a poem that speaks of the event. Theodore Bikel on history
In human history, the desire for revenge and the desire for loot have often been closely associated. John McCarthy on history