I wanted to be a poet when I was 20; I had no interest in fiction or biography and precious little interest in history, but those three elements in... →
Peter Ackroyd
The 16th-century theatre witnessed the particularly English manifestation of 'the history play.' There can be no doubt that Shakespeare's... →
My mom started an air-freight company; my grandmother built a golf course. I have a certain degree of entrepreneurial risk-taking in my family... →
Brian Acton
History provides neither compensation for suffering nor penalties for wrong.
John Acton
History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul.
Lord Acton
And remember, where you have a concentration of power in a few hands, all too frequently men with the mentality of gangsters get control. History has... →
We have nothing in our history or position to invite aggression; we have everything to beckon us to the cultivation of relations of peace and amity... →
Franklin Pierce Adams
The birth of the baby Jesus stands as the most significant event in all history, because it has meant the pouring into a sick world the healing... →
George Matthew Adams
We can be revisionist, and that's a good thing to be at times, but we shouldn't airbrush our history, so we can only make judgments in the... →
Gerry Adams
Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.
Henry Adams