History may be divided into three movements: what moves rapidly, what moves slowly and what appears not to move at all.
I don't think all buildings have to be iconic, but the history of the world has shown us that cultures build iconic buildings for their major public buildings.
My reading of philosophy and history is desultory; I know so much and yet so little.
Gardeners instinctively know that flowers and plants are a continuum and that the wheel of garden history will always be coming full circle.
Look at the history of peace accords in Africa. They have a terrible record. They are shredded even before the ink on them is dry.
I was a daydreamer, and there is a lot of history and geography and science I missed out on because I was in my head. And I regret that.
You have Extreme and Van Halen and the history that I have with other people I played with. There are some effects that will hopefully break that stereotype.
Rome - the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.
Ordinary Kenyans rightly want to be able to shop safely, and there is a long history of them doing just that, irrespective of their religion or that of the shop owner.
History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.
I'm into the vampire stuff. I think it's really fascinating and interesting. There's a lot of history behind all of that, and if you look into it, it's really interesting stuff.
Most filmmakers aren't very interested in history. They worry constantly that people will be bored.
Over the course of television's history, I think fans have done more to save shows and support them than ruin them.
The world's battlefields have been in the heart chiefly; more heroism has been displayed in the household and the closet, than on the most memorable battlefields in history.
Every major question in history is a religious question. It has more effect in molding life than nationalism or a common language.
Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.
The more history I learnt, the less interested I got in winning arguments and the more interested in establishing the truth.
What fascinates me are the turning points where history could have been different.
Nothing moves me more than the history of the United States.
I did this within a philosophical framework, and a moral and legal framework. And I have been turned into a cartoon of the greatest villain in the history of lobbying.
Life is a wonderful thing to talk about, or to read about in history books - but it is terrible when one has to live it.
