I do consider myself part of black history. Mary J. Blige
The United States is the only power in history that became great by giving and not by taking. I think the crisis was when the United States had more money than ideas. Money doesn't produce money. Ideas produce money. Shimon Peres
Having bought furniture for my own house, and bought furniture for our house in Washington, a furniture store seemed like a good idea, and it also played into my personal history. Elizabeth Edwards
Man's naked form belongs to no particular moment in history it is eternal, and can be looked upon with joy by the people of all ages. Auguste Rodin
The kitchen's a laboratory, and everything that happens there has to do with science. It's biology, chemistry, physics. Yes, there's history. Yes, there's artistry. Yes, to all of that. But what happened there, what actually happens to the food is all science. Alton Brown
Very few conflicts in the history of the world have been satisfactorily concluded according to a published timetable, because you lose all flexibility in dealing with your opponents. William Hague
Skepticism has never founded empires, established principals, or changed the world's heart. The great doers in history have always been people of faith. Edwin Hubbel Chapin
I learned more from my mother than from all the art historians and curators who have informed me about technical aspects of art history and art appreciation over the years. David Rockefeller
History is the science of things which are not repeated. Paul Valery
The history of thought may be summed up in these words: it is absurd by what it seeks and great by what it finds. Paul Valery
Nigeria has had a complicated colonial history. My work has examined that part of our story extensively. Chinua Achebe
Young women today often have very little appreciation for the real battles that took place to get women where they are today in this country. I don't know how much history young women today know about those battles. Sandra Day O'Connor
Sometimes history takes things into its own hands. Thurgood Marshall
We have our own history, our own language, our own culture. But our destiny is also tied up with the destinies of other people - history has made us all South Africans. Mangosuthu Buthelezi
I know the history of the record business so well because I followed Billie Holiday into the record studios. It was so primitive compared to the sophisticated business today. Tony Bennett
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 really interested in modern history, but to fulfill a History degree at Brown you have to do modern and pre-modern. Emma Watson
The positive testimony of history is that the State invariably had its origin in conquest and confiscation. No primitive State known to history originated in any other manner. Albert J. Nock
The long-established and noble rule of Law, one of the greatest products of the character and tradition of British history, has suffered a deadly blow. Blackmail has become respectable. Robert Menzies