If some peoples pretend that history or geography gives them the right to subjugate other races, nations, or peoples, there can be no peace.
Ludwig von Mises
HistoryPeaceGeographyRightSome
My wife and I spent the winter in Worcestershire. This allowed me to tell everyone back home in the States, 'We are wintering in Worcestershire.' This may be a sentence that has never actually been uttered in human history, even by people who spend all their winters in Worcestershire.
Christopher Buckley
WinterHomeHistoryWifePeopleMe
One of the things we tell ourselves as African-Americans is if we work hard, play by the rules, we do start back a little ways, but if we can be twice as good, somehow we can escape history and heritage and legacy.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
WorkGoodHistoryLegacyStartPlay
The history of trying to start a daily where there already is one is that it has never worked.
John Morton
DailyHistoryStartTryingNever
Crafts make us feel rooted, give us a sense of belonging and connect us with our history. Our ancestors used to create these crafts out of necessity, and now we do them for fun, to make money and to express ourselves.
Phyllis George
HistoryMoneyFunFeelCreateNow
I like for my home to reflect my fashion. I love adding earthy pieces to something very glamorous, and I love having things with a history or a story sitting alongside an uber-modern piece.
Karen Fairchild
LoveHomeHistoryFashionStory
History can bring luck: this is what we can call optimism.
Stephane Hessel
HistoryOptimismLuckBringCall
It's true in everything, not just in drag: To be a success, you have to understand the landscape. You have to know thyself, and you have to know your history so that you can draw from people who have figured out the equation you are faced with. It's not rocket science.
RuPaul
SuccessScienceHistoryPeopleYou
When you are organizing a group of people, the first thing that we do is we talk about the history of what other people have been able to accomplish - people that look like them, workers like them, ordinary people, working people - and we give them the list: these are people like yourself; this is what they were able to do in their community.
Dolores Huerta
CommunityHistoryYourselfPeople
I became known as the guy who did the worst show in the history of television.
Jerry Van Dyke
HistoryTelevisionWorstGuyShow
I do like silver. I love antiques. I collect Georgian glass at home. When you think about how fragile that it is and think about how long these things have lasted - some of it is 400 years old - I find the history of these things extraordinary.
Anthony Warlow
LoveHomeHistoryThinkLongYou
The first time Adrian saw me was on tape. But you should know that this never works - never in the history of movies has someone been cast from a video.
Olivier Martinez
HistoryTimeMeSomeoneYouKnow
If we don't empower families to be able to have a quality education, then their children - for the first time in American history, truly the first time - will not have the same economic opportunities.
Jeb Bush
EducationChildrenHistoryTimeWill
I had no interest in history classes. In fact, I used to sleep in history classes, I used to bunk classes. But that is how students are supposed to be, no? I developed an interest in history much later. I have made a few films based on historical facts.
Shekhar Kapur
HistorySleepFactsHistoricalUsed
It is capitalist America that produced the modern independent woman. Never in history have women had more freedom of choice in regard to dress, behavior, career, and sexual orientation.
Camille Paglia
WomenFreedomHistoryWomanDress
The American people need to know that there are folks here fighting as hard as they can for individual liberty, economic freedom, appropriate national security and the fundamental moral values that have made our nation the greatest nation in the history of mankind.
Tom Price
FreedomHistoryPeopleFightingKnow
I'm actually writing history. It isn't what you'd call big history. I don't write about presidents and generals... I write about the man who was ranching, the man who was mining, the man who was opening up the country.
Louis L'Amour
HistoryManWritingYouCountryBig
If it is good enough for Prince William and Kate, why is studying art history not good enough for the masses?
Cornelia Parker
GoodHistoryArtNot Good EnoughWhy
In Italy, there are so many significant architectural structures in history such as the Pantheon in Rome, or the Duomo.
Tadao Ando
HistoryRomeSignificantItalyMany
God will use whatever he wants to display his glory. Heavens and stars. History and nations. People and problems.
Max Lucado
StarsGodHistoryPeopleProblems
The evils that arise to us from the structure of the material universe are neither trivial nor few, yet the history of political society sufficiently shows that man is, of all other beings, the most formidable enemy to man.
William Godwin
HistoryManSocietyPoliticalEnemy
The history of Europe over the last several centuries provides clear evidence of the transformative power of commerce.
Iqbal Quadir
PowerHistoryOverEvidenceEurope
The '60s is such an explosive period. It was very interesting for me because I grew up in Canada, and obviously, I know some American history because I've lived here for many years, and even in Canada, that does permeate.
Stephanie Savage
HistoryMeAmericanInterestingKnow
The bungalow had more to do with how Americans live today than any other building that has gone remotely by the name of architecture in our history.
Russell Lynes
LiveTodayHistoryArchitectureName
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