There's a group of Americans who are fully employed. They aren't very well paid or they're not paid at all. They're called mothers, and I've never heard of a mother who wasn't a working mother. And that includes the mothers on welfare. —Theresa Funiciello More about this quote Tags: work USA mothers welfare Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Being a mother is a noble status, right? Right. So why does it change when you put "unwed" or "welfare" in front of it? —Florynce Kennedy More about this quote Tags: nobility marriage motherhood welfare Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The happiest hours of mankind are recorded on the blank pages of history. —Thomas Carlyle More about this quote Tags: history memory happiness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
K is for "Kenghis Khan." He was a very nice person. History has no record of him. There is a moral in that, somewhere. —Harlan Ellison More about this quote Tags: history memory niceness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It is up to us; there is no one left to blame. Neither the system, nor our leaders, nor our parents. We can't go out and hang the first amoeba. —Rebecca McClen Novick More about this quote Tags: parents responsibility blame Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
What is a minority? The chosen heroes of this earth have been in a minority. There is not a social, political, or religious privilege that you enjoy today that was not bought for you by the blood and tears and patient suffering of the minority. It is the minority that have stood in the vanguard of every moral conflict, and achieved all that is noble in the history of the world. —John B. Gough More about this quote Tags: history privilege morality suffering nobility heroes conflict minority Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We forget that we ourselves are a part of history, that we are the product of growth and are condemned to perish if we lose the capacity for further growth and change. We are ourselves history and share the responsibility for world history and our position in it. But we gravely lack awareness of this responsibility. —Herman Hesse More about this quote Tags: awareness history change death responsibility growth Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
You cannot help but learn more as you take the world into your hands. Take it up reverently, for it is an old piece of clay, with millions of thumbprints on it. —John Updike More about this quote Tags: learning world reverence Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Sir Francis Drake circumcized the world with a hundred-foot clipper. —Unknown history student More about this quote Tags: humor misunderstanding Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
History, real solemn history, I cannot be interested in. . . . I read it a little as a duty; but it tells me nothing that does not either vex or weary me. The quarrels of popes and kings, with wars and pestilences in every page; the men all so good-for-nothing, and hardly any women at all. —Jane Austen More about this quote Tags: war history power women men kings pestilence Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If you want a symbolic gesture, don't burn the flag; wash it. —Norman Thomas More about this quote Tags: politics USA cleaning flags symbolism flag burning Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
There is . . . a trait no other nation seems to possess in quite the same degree that we do — namely, a feeling of almost childish injury and resentment unless the world as a whole recognizes how innocent we are of anything but the most generous and harmless intentions. —Eleanor Roosevelt More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Very little is known about the War of 1812 because the Americans lost it. —Eric Nicol More about this quote Tags: war history memory USA Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
In science it often happens that scientists say, "You know, that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken," and then they actually change their minds, and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion. —Carl Sagan More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Until lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunters. —African proverb More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email