The process of making natural history films is to try to prevent the animal knowing you are there, so you get glimpses of a non-human world, and that... →
David Attenborough
History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions; the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology.
W. H. Auden
May it not be that, just as we have to have faith in Him, God has to have faith in us and, considering the history of the human race so far, may it... →
To write history is so difficult that most historians are forced to make concessions to the technique of legende.
Erich Auerbach
I woke up one day and thought: 'I want to write a book about the history of my body.' I could justify talking about my mother because it was... →
Paul Auster
History is present in all my novels. And whether I am directly talking about the sociological moment or just immersing my character in the... →
Going back into the history of a word, very often into Latin, we come back pretty commonly to pictures or models of how things happen or are done.
J. L. Austin
I've been completely fascinated with history because it tells everything about what's going to happen next because it's cyclical... →
Emilie Autumn
I'm a big stupid history nerd.
African history is filled with experiences of people shooting their way to power and then splintering into factions, like in Somalia and Liberia.
George Ayittey