Middle Passage,” as it was called by European slavers, was notorious for the number of deaths incurred, averaging in the vicinity of 15-20 per cent. There were also numerous deaths in Africa between time of...

The Guti were a band of mountain barbarians. It’s always the way, isn’t it? Everything is blamed on ‘the barbarians

The history of the knowledge of the phenomena of life and of the organized world can be divided into two main periods. For a long time anatomy, and particularly the anatomy of the human body,...

Here dwell together still two men of note/ Who never lived and so can never die:/ How very near they seem, yet how remote/ That age before the world went all awry./ But still the...

As we travel in time and on Equator, we will find our souls and then move in time towards time.

History is boring, unless you see it from the right perspective. perspective is important.Corn growing in a field appears orderless, till one turns the corner and sees the rows line up. a pixelized photo is...

Religion thrives on want and fear of the unknown, on lack of education. A frightened and confused human is fed by religious institutions with the illusion that the solution to his real problems is to...

Thus I have maintained by English history, that in proportion as the press has been free, English government has been secure

And wasn’t that a great moment in baseball history,” Holly Grace replied with withering sarcasm. “Helen Keller pitching and Little Stevie Wonder catching.

Sometimes I get mail for people who lived in my home before I did, and sometimes my own body seems like a home through which successive people have passed like tenants, leaving behind memories, habits,...

I am, at this moment, what I have always been to him: an object of beauty. He has never loved me as a woman.

History dressed up in the glow of love’s kiss turned grief into beauty.

Depends on who wins, I guess.

Pray GOD by HEART, Not by HABIT.

I am God”? Why did he not explain the Trinity? Why did he not tell the mode of baptism that was pleasing to him? Why did he not write a creed? Why did he not...

You have to design your own price tag for the world.

Espionage is the world’s second oldest profession.

He’s definitely the best point guard in the history of the Spurs franchise.

The linguistic and literary reality of the biblical tradition is folkloristic in essence. The concept of a benei Israel … is a reflection of no sociopolitical entity of the historical state of Israel of the...

The stream of Time, irresistible, ever moving, carries off and bears away all things that come to birth and plunges them into utter darkness, both deeds of no account and deeds which are mighty and...

Sometimes in studying Ramanujan’s work, [George Andrews] said at another time, “I have wondered how much Ramanujan could have done if he had had MACSYMA or SCRATCHPAD or some other symbolic algebra package.

I cannot tell whether diamonds appeared in his eyes or mine as the shine of adoration became the icon one sees in history, a Byzantine sparkle, Medieval armor against all odds.

Berners-Lee was supremely lucky in the work environment he had settled into, the Swiss particle physics lab CERN. It took him ten years to nurture his slow hunch about a hypertext information platform.

…to handicap a student by teaching him that his black face is a curse and that his struggle to change his condition is hopeless is the worst sort of lynching. It kills one’s aspirations and...

Without words, we’re history’s orphans. Our lives and thoughts erased.

The immense appetite we have for biography comes from a deep-seated sense of equality.

I don’t think that’s ever been done in school history, winning four Long Island championships in a row. Each time we make history, it’s exciting. It’s exciting to move on to try and get our...

Human beings disappear; their histories remain.

We have inherited a fear of memories of slavery. It is as if to remember and acknowledge slavery would amount to our being consumed by it. As a matter of fact, in the popular black...

The problem then with Jesus is that he cannot be removed from his time and transplanted into our own without simply creating him anew

Long before it was known to me as a place where my ancestry was even remotely involved, the idea of a state for Jews (or a Jewish state; not quite the same thing, as I...

…history should continually seek to challenge our assumptions. It should prompt us to look differently at the world and make us less self-assured about our own ideals and beliefs.

The official erasure of any existence before enslavement – as if black Americans did not exist before the yolk and the chains and whip – has always created a passion for us.Black people need to...

I think it’s the greatest upset in the history of women’s hockey. It is a bit bittersweet. We’ve been geared toward the U.S. all year, and we prepare for them with everything we do. We...

To deal with history [life] means to abandon one’s self to chaos but to retain a belief in the ordination and the meaning. It is a very serious task.

Science would not be what it is if there had not been a Galileo, a Newton or a Lavoisier, any more than music would be what it is if Bach, Beethoven and Wagner had never...

I make up as little as possible. I spend a great deal of time on research, on finding all the available accounts of a scene or incident, finding out all the background details and the...

Rhino-mounted Bantu shock troops could have overthrown the Roman Empire. It never happened.

Living in the past, can only hold those who live there, as its prisoners.

They took it to us and made us take penalties. The rest is history.

Writing your own quotes is like you started writing your history.

Christian history looks glorious in retrospect; but it is made up of constant hard choices and unattractive tasks, accepted under the pressure of the Will of God

The means through which people may perceive Truth have forms; Truth has no form.

Amerika hanya suka padamu bila engkau berada pada pihak yang dipilihnya. Kalau engkau tidak sepenuhnya sejalan dengan dia, engkau secara otomatis dimasukan dalam blok Uni Sovyet.

Nasionalisme tidak dapat hidup subur, kalau tidak hidup dalan taman sarinya Internasionalisme.

Ketika aku masuk penjara, aku akan menghadapinya dengan tabah. Kalau memang nasibku harus menghadapi penderitaan, biarkanlah. Bukankah lebih baik Sukarno menderita untuk sementara daripada Indonesia menderita untuk selama-lamanya?

Banyak orang yang berkaki telanjang, tetapi mereka bukan orang yang revolusioner. Banyak orang berpangkat tinggi memakai sarung, tapi mereka bekerja sepenuh hati untuk penjajah. Jadi yang menandakan seseorang itu revolusioner adalah perjuangan yang dilakukannya. Kita...

You’re stepping into a school with a lot of history, tradition and now publicity. It’s going to take a special person to step into that job and handle the unique pressure that comes with it.

If you believe the Bible is true, you ought to know that demons are real. The Bible is filled with references of evil and demons, and Christ repeatedly cast out demons, so I believe the...

For the first time in the history of Lebanon, the Lebanese feel that they have the power to decide their fate,