We learn to think of history as something that has already happened, to other people. Our own moment, filled as it is with minutiae destined to be forgotten, always looks smaller in comparison.

Picture Quotes Maker

Top Authors

• Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Poet

  Wednesday, Oct 21, 1772
  Friday, Jul 25, 1834

• Albert Camus

  Author

  Friday, Nov 07, 1913
  Monday, Jan 04, 1960

• Walt Whitman

  Poet

  Monday, May 31, 1819
  Saturday, Mar 26, 1892

• Paulo Coelho

  Lyricist

  Sunday, Aug 24, 1947
  

• Donald Trump

  45Th President Of The United States

  Friday, Jun 14, 1946
  

• John Lewis

  U.s. Representative

  Wednesday, Feb 21, 1940
  

• Carrie Fisher

  Actress

  Sunday, Oct 21, 1956
  Tuesday, Dec 27, 2016

• Isaac Newton

  Physicist

  Sunday, Jan 04, 1643
  Monday, Mar 31, 1727

• Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Civil Rights Activist

  Tuesday, Jan 15, 1929
  Thursday, Apr 04, 1968

• Henry David Thoreau

  Author

  Saturday, Jul 12, 1817
  Tuesday, May 06, 1862

• Aldous Huxley

  Writer

  Thursday, Jul 26, 1894
  Friday, Nov 22, 1963

• John Locke

  Philosopher

  Sunday, Aug 29, 1632
  Tuesday, Oct 28, 1704

• Henry Ford

  Industrialist

  Thursday, Jul 30, 1863
  Monday, Apr 07, 1947

• Will Rogers

  Actor

  Tuesday, Nov 04, 1879
  Thursday, Aug 15, 1935

• Barack Obama

  44Th U.s. President

  Friday, Aug 04, 1961