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Tad Williams on home
Author: Tad Williams“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
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Jane Austen on home
Author: Jane Austen“There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.” -Jane Austen
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Pliny the Elder on home
Author: Pliny the Elder“Home is where the heart is.” -Pliny the Elder
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Confucius on home
Author: Confucius“The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.” -Confucius
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Robert Frost on home
Author: Robert Frost“Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.” -Robert Frost
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Bill Cosby on home
Author: Bill Cosby“Human beings are the only creatures on earth that allow their children to come back home.” -Bill Cosby
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Benjamin Franklin on home
Author: Benjamin Franklin“A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.” -Benjamin Franklin
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Carlos Fuentes on history
Author: Carlos Fuentes“Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers.” -Carlos Fuentes
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Strom Thurmond on history
Author: Strom Thurmond“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
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Harry Browne on history
Author: Harry Browne“For most of our history, Americans enjoyed both liberty and security from foreign threats.” -Harry Browne
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Claude Vorilhon on history
Author: Claude Vorilhon“There is nothing glorious about what our ancestors call history. It is simply a succession of mistakes, intolerances and violations.” -Claude Vorilhon
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Azar Nafisi on history
Author: Azar Nafisi“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
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T. Boone Pickens on history
Author: T. Boone Pickens“In the history of America, we’ve never had an energy plan. We don’t even realize the resources we have available to us.” -T. Boone Pickens
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Phyllis Schlafly on history
Author: Phyllis Schlafly“History offers no evidence for the proposition that the assignment of women to military combat jobs is the way to win wars, improve combat readiness, or promote national security.” -Phyllis Schlafly
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Tom Hayden on history
Author: Tom Hayden“The issue of civil rights was too much for the establishment to handle. One of the chapters of history that’s least studied by historians is the 300 to 500 riots in the U.S. between 1965 and 1970.” -Tom Hayden
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Polly Toynbee on history
Author: Polly Toynbee“How do you make any sense of history, art or literature without knowing the stories and iconography of your own culture and all the world’s main religions?” -Polly Toynbee
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Sean Parker on history
Author: Sean Parker“It would be incredibly presumptuous and self-serving of me to believe that Facebook was the end of history. The only way it could possibly be the end of history is if it becomes some sort of artificial super intelligence that takes over the world.” -Sean Parker
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Conrad Black on history
Author: Conrad Black“For all history up to the end of the Cold War, summit meetings were historic and dramatic occasions, when leaders who controlled the destiny of much of the world met to change the world.” -Conrad Black
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Helena Christensen on history
Author: Helena Christensen“It’s incredible to have been part of fashion history – my whole career has been one big highlight.” -Helena Christensen
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Rob Sheffield on history
Author: Rob Sheffield“Sending Paris Hilton to jail for being the most loathed celeprosy lesion in the history of the species seems like a happening idea at first – forty-five days at Century Regional Detention Center is so the new thirty days at Promises Malibu! But it sets a dangerous precedent to jail celebs just because someone hates…
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Sally Field on history
Author: Sally Field“Last year I was diagnosed with osteoporosis. I was over 50, Caucasian, thin, small-framed, and I have it in my genetic history. It was almost a slam-dunk.” -Sally Field
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Michael Haneke on history
Author: Michael Haneke“Film is the manipulative medium par excellence. When you think back on the history of film and the 20th century, you see the propaganda that’s been made. So there are moral demands on the director to treat the spectators as seriously as he or she takes himself and not to see them merely as victims…
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Ron Chernow on history
Author: Ron Chernow“The history of Wall Street is inseparable from New York.” -Ron Chernow
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Thom Yorke on history
Author: Thom Yorke“If we got into a situation where people start burning our records, then bring it on. That’s the whole point. The gloaming has begun. We’re in the darkness. This has happened before. Go read some history.” -Thom Yorke