"History repeats itself, but the special call of an art which has passed away is never reproduced. It is as utterly gone out of the world as the song of a destroyed wild bird." - Joseph ConradTweet
"Common sense and history tell you that rewarding illegal behavior will only encourage more of it." - Ric KellerTweet
"This is the greatest society in all of human history, the greatest country ever. Many of the decisions being made in Washington today by both parties are threatening that greatness. And if we stay on this road we're on right now, our children are going to be the first Americans ever to inherit a diminished country." - Marco RubioTweet
"Culinary tradition is not always based on fact. Sometimes it's based on history, on habits that come out of a time when kitchens were fueled by charcoal." - Alton BrownTweet
"The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments." - George WashingtonTweet
"The best history is but like the art of Rembrandt it casts a vivid light on certain selected causes, on those which were best and greatest it leaves all the rest in shadow and unseen." - Walter BagehotTweet
"A day spent praising the earth and lamenting man's pollutionist history makes you feel like a superior, sensitive soul." - Russell BakerTweet
"To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't everything." - Albert CamusTweet
"I wanted to make sure that the man who found the genie would not take terrible advantage of her, so he needed to be a person of integrity and honor - which is why I made the male lead an astronaut. The rest, as they say, is history." - Sidney SheldonTweet
"I have the opportunity to be part of swimming history. To take the sport to a new level would be an honor for me. There's no better time to try this than now." - Michael PhelpsTweet