This is a good time to ask apologists for the Islamic regime, who degrades Islam? Who imposes stoning, forced marriage of underage girls and flogging for not wearing the veil? Do such practices represent Iran's ancient history and culture, its ethnic and religious diversity? Its centuries of sensual and subversive poetry? Azar Nafisi on history
There is nothing glorious about what our ancestors call history. It is simply a succession of mistakes, intolerances and violations. Claude Vorilhon on history
For most of our history, Americans enjoyed both liberty and security from foreign threats. Harry Browne on history
If I had been elected president in 1948, history would be vastly different. I believe we would have stemmed the growth of Big Government, which had begun with the New Deal and culminated with the Great Society. Strom Thurmond on history
Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers. Carlos Fuentes on history
Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country. Margaret Thatcher on home
A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body. Benjamin Franklin on home
Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts. Oliver Wendell Holmes on home
Human beings are the only creatures on earth that allow their children to come back home. Bill Cosby on home
Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in. Robert Frost on home
The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home. Confucius on home
People who have good relationships at home are more effective in the marketplace. Zig Ziglar on home
Home life is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo. George Bernard Shaw on home
There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort. Jane Austen on home
Never make your home in a place. Make a home for yourself inside your own head. You'll find what you need to furnish it - memory, friends you can trust, love of learning, and other such things. That way it will go with you wherever you journey. Tad Williams on home
When you finally go back to your old home, you find it wasn't the old home you missed but your childhood. Sam Ewing on home
Be grateful for the home you have, knowing that at this moment, all you have is all you need. Sarah Ban Breathnach on home
God is at home, it's we who have gone out for a walk. Meister Eckhart on home
I'm the type who'd be happy not going anywhere as long as I was sure I knew exactly what was happening at the places I wasn't going to. I'm the type who'd like to sit home and watch every party that I'm invited to on a monitor in my bedroom. Andy Warhol on home