I was determined to achieve the total freedom that our history lessons taught us we were entitled to, no matter what the sacrifice. Rosabeth Moss Kanter achievedetermineentitle Change image and share on social
Looking back on humanity's battle with pollution, history has been made by thousands of ordinary people who one day say, 'No. I'm not satisfied. I don't want to wait, and I don't want to pass the buck. I want to stand up and do something. I want to do it here, and I want do to it now.' Chai Jing backbattlebuck share on social
I have my husband and children near me in Rome, and I feel this is where we are temporarily belonging. But personally, all my life, I have felt the absence of a sense of history. Jhumpa Lahiri absencebelongchild Change image and share on social
I often wonder what I will be remembered in history for. Scholar? Military hero? Builder? Ferdinand Marcos builderherohistory Change image and share on social
Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood? Carl Jung bloodbookcontain Change image and share on social
In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful. Leo Tolstoy governmenthatchhistory Change image and share on social
English has been this vacuum cleaner of a language, because of its history meeting up with the Romans and then the Danes, the Vikings and then the French and then the Renaissance with all the Latin and Greek and Hebrew in the background. David Crystal backgroundcleandane share on social
I had a place to go to university; I was going to study history. I was in New York doing 'Arcadia,' and I suddenly thought, 'It feels a bit weird to go from a New York stage to Manchester University.' It didn't quite feel right. Bel Powley arcadiabitefeel share on social
Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity. Hermann Hesse bookconcepthistory Change image and share on social
Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own. Georg C. Lichtenberg agecalldark Change image and share on social
