#history

Maybe we've been brainwashed by 130 years of Yankee history, but Southern identity now has more to do with food, accents, manners, music than the Confederate past. It's something that's open to both races, a variety of ethnic groups and people who move here. ↗

— John Shelton Reed

#been #both #brainwashed #confederate #ethnic

We live in an era of globalization and the era of the woman. Never in the history of the world have women been more in control of their destiny. ↗

— Oscar de la Renta

#control #destiny #era #globalization #history

The greatest untapped reservoir of raw material in the history of our game is the black race. ↗

— Branch Rickey

#game #greatest #history #material #our

But myth is something else than an explanation of the world, of history, and of destiny. ↗

— Paul Ricoeur

#else #explanation #history #myth #something

I did not come to NASA to make history. ↗

— Sally Ride

#did #history #i #make #nasa

I wanted to make sure that this be the first scientific and technology revolution in history in which the public thoroughly discussed all the potential benefits and all the potential harms, in advance of the technology coming online and running its course. ↗

— Jeremy Rifkin

#be the first #benefits #coming #course #discussed

Martha Washington. I think she's done herself a disservice in history with a little cap, you know? She looks like a namby-pamby little grandmotherly type, but she turned out to be a very strong woman. ↗

— Cokie Roberts

#disservice #done #herself #history #i

Optimists are usually wrong. But all the great change in history, positive change, was done by optimists. ↗

— Thomas Friedman

#done #great #great change #history #optimists

I am convinced that when the history of international law comes to be written centuries hence, it will be divided into two periods: the first being from the earliest times to the end of the nineteenth century, and the second beginning with the Hague Conference. ↗

— Ludwig Quidde

#beginning #being #centuries #century #comes

I love people, I love studying people more than history. So whatever situation I see, then I look at, what were the people like, more than history itself. ↗

— Colin Quinn

#i #i love #i see #itself #like