All Quotes

'Hispanic' is a reference to Hispania, the name by which Spain was known in the Roman period, and there has always been strong ambivalence toward Spain in its former colonies.
‐‐ Ilan Stavans

'Hispanic' is English for a person of Latino origin who wants to be accepted by the white status quo. 'Latino' is the word we have always used for ourselves.
‐‐ Sandra Cisneros

Hispanic unemployment is higher than the national average and when the federal government is killing small businesses and killing jobs it is hurting the future of the Hispanic community and we need to carry that message.
‐‐ Ted Cruz

Hispanic values are conservative values. Hispanics are highly religious, they're very strongly pro-traditional family... not only pro-family, but also pro-life. They are highly patriotic.
‐‐ Rafael Cruz

'Hispanic' was the term adopted by the government - by the Nixon government in particular - and that made the community feel it was being branded.
‐‐ Ilan Stavans

Hispanics have been among the biggest beneficiaries of the Affordable Care Act.
‐‐ Julian Castro

Historian - a broad-gauge gossip.
‐‐ Ambrose Bierce

Historian: an unsuccessful novelist.
‐‐ H. L. Mencken

Historians and archaeologists will one day discover that the ads of our time are the richest and most faithful reflections that any society ever made of its entire range of activities.
‐‐ Marshall McLuhan

Historians and journalists always have agendas, but if I want to find out what's going on in South Africa, I read Nadine Gordimer or John Coetzee because they offer novelistic truth.
‐‐ Justin Cartwright

Historians and scholars have access to every issue of every newspaper and journal written during the civil rights struggle of the 1960s but can access only a comparative handful of papers covering the election of Barack Obama.
‐‐ Jeffrey Zeldman

Historians are going to look back on rising China and say America, at least under the Bush years, did not get that wrong.
‐‐ Thomas P.M. Barnett

Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.
‐‐ Leo Tolstoy

Historians are the consummate hairdressers of the literary world: cooing in public, catty in private.
‐‐ Craig Brown

Historians evaluating George W. Bush's first term will focus on foreign policy and, most of all, 9/11. I think they will criticize him for his early reaction, for not returning at once to Washington, D.C.
‐‐ Robert Dallek

Historians of European royalty have written of the king's 'two bodies' : one mortal and corrupt; the other divine, abstract and timeless.
‐‐ Stacey D'Erasmo

Historians once assumed that when childhood mortality was high, people must not have loved their children very much; it would have been too painful. Research has since proved that assumption wrong.
‐‐ Jill Lepore

Historians partial to Kennedy see matters differently from those partial to L.B.J. Vietnam has become a point of contention in defending and criticizing J.F.K.
‐‐ Robert Dallek

Historians still often see the end of the war as meaning nothing more for Germany than lost territories, lost participation in colonization, and lost assets for the state and individuals. They frequently overlook the most serious loss that Germany suffered.
‐‐ Gustav Stresemann

Historians tell the story of the past, novelists the story of the present.
‐‐ Edmond de Goncourt

Historians tell us that a gentleman named John Ball once captured eight British Amateur titles.
‐‐ Dan Jenkins

Historians turning their hands to fiction are all the rage. Since Alison Weir led the way in 2006, an ever-growing number of established non-fiction writers - Giles Milton, Simon Sebag Montefiore, Harry Sidebottom, Patrick Bishop, Ian Mortimer and myself included - have written historical novels.
‐‐ Saul David

Historians who write about families are usually feminists who think in terms of gender relations.
‐‐ Jane Ridley

Historians will handle a much wider range of sources than a biographer and will be covering a broader spectrum of events, time, peoples.
‐‐ Claire Tomalin

Historians will have to face the fact that natural selection determined the evolution of cultures in the same manner as it did that of species.
‐‐ Konrad Lorenz

Historians will likely give Obama credit for steering the country away from the brink of economic collapse in 2009.
‐‐ Ron Fournier

Historians will look back and say, 'Foreign policy in the Ford presidency was very much dominated by Kissinger, with a kind of continuity from the Nixon period.' Ford is not going to be remembered as a really significant foreign policy maker.
‐‐ Robert Dallek

Historians will tell you that they deal with fact and empirical evidence. But that doesn't really help me understand a person.
‐‐ James McBride

Historic Amsterdam, that old part you first see when you turn up at Centraal Station, may have its monuments, but it's also the most tawdry and overcrowded part of the city.
‐‐ David Hewson

Historic changes and challenges. Breakthroughs in human knowledge and opportunity. And yet, for vast numbers across the globe, the daily realities have not altered.
‐‐ Abdullah II of Jordan

Historic scores cannot be settled, and scars cannot be obliterated.
‐‐ Ehud Olmert

Historical experience shows that a crisis causes either a recovery or catastrophic consequences.
‐‐ Sergei Lavrov

Historical facts are the vital framework around which non-fiction writers construct their narratives; they are, quite simply, indispensable.
‐‐ Saul David

Historical fiction is actually good preparation for reading SF. Both the historical novelist and the science fiction writer are writing about worlds unlike our own.
‐‐ Pamela Sargent

Historical fiction was not - and is not - meant to supplant literature from the period it describes. As a veteran of the Crimea, Tolstoy wrote 'War and Peace' to match his own internal sense of the truth of the Napoleonic wars, to dramatize what he felt literature from that period had failed to describe.
‐‐ Alexander Chee

Historical grammar is a study of how, say, modern English developed from Middle English, and how that developed from Early and Old English, and how that developed from Germanic, and that developed from what's called Proto-Indo-European, a source system that nobody speaks, so you have to try to reconstruct it.
‐‐ Noam Chomsky

Historical hypocrites have themselves carried out the very human rights abuses that they suddenly decide warrant intervention elsewhere.
‐‐ Samantha Power

Historical methodology, as I see it, is a product of common sense applied to circumstances.
‐‐ Samuel E. Morison

Historical novels are hard to do for the general public for commercial writers like myself.
‐‐ James McBride

Historical records show that Abenakis and other Natives encountered European explorers and traders in Canada looking for sources of ivory to compete with the Russian trade in Siberian fossil mammoth ivory - these traders routinely asked about ivory 'horns' and teeth.
‐‐ Adrienne Mayor

Historical science is being left in the dust.
‐‐ Jack Horner

Historical truth and the marketing needs of the movie and television industry remain fundamentally incompatible.
‐‐ Antony Beevor

Historically, a successful life in comedy is a dream that's as equally pondered and unpursued as being an astronaut.
‐‐ Artie Lange

Historically, absolute IQ scores have risen substantially as we've changed our environment so that more people go to school longer.
‐‐ Alison Gopnik

Historically, Alaska is a place that has attracted those fed up with conventionality.
‐‐ Bill O'Reilly

Historically, America has answered to a higher authority.
‐‐ Lee Greenwood

Historically and culturally, New York City and our entire nation simply would not be the same without the infusion of Asian traditions. Whether it is food, art, language or any other facet of cultural life, Asian Americans have made our city and our country stronger and richer.
‐‐ Nydia Velazquez

Historically, art has always had a market. When one medieval fiefdom defeated another they would drag back its jewels, gold, tapestries and art objects as the spoils of war. Art equaled power, riches and culture.
‐‐ Arne Glimcher

Historically Black Colleges and Universities, or HBCUs, have played an important role in enriching the lives of not just African Americans, but our entire country.
‐‐ Ric Keller