What is public history but a register of the successes and disappointments, the vices, the follies and the quarrels of those who engage in contention for power.
Trading and religion have always been aligned together in the history of the world, and especially on the African continent.
Judging from the main portions of the history of the world, so far, justice is always in jeopardy.
Optimists are usually wrong. But all the great change in history, positive change, was done by optimists.
The monuments of the nations are all protests against nothingness after death; so are statues and inscriptions; so is history.
We are people with all the hopes, dreams, passions, and faults of everyone else. Eighty percent of us are born into families with no history of dwarfism.
I taught English and history, so my education for that really helped prepare me for writing historical fiction.
I knew 'Be Our Guest' would be performed on a set and in costume, but anyone with a history in Theatre In Education will know that can mean anything.
I wanted to get the most broad foundation for a lifelong education that I could find, and that was studying Latin and the classics. Meaning Roman and Greek history and philosophy and ancient civilizations.
For too much of history, we've viewed the world's precious resources - both environmental and human - as things to extract, to make the most of in order to maximize their potential.
It was one of those great miracles of history that they managed to smuggle an Enigma machines out to Britain just before they were invaded by the Nazis.
Young people have been at the forefront of every great social movement in our country's history.
My first popular book, 'A Brief History of Time,' aroused a great deal of interest, but many found it difficult to understand.
I'm a child of immigrants. That is the history of this country. Immigration is good and important for our country. Legal immigration needs to really be modernized.
Deep Purple is a damn good band and we've made a niche in rock 'n' roll history. Maybe not a huge one but enough to be very proud of.
I simply wanted to state that during this little slice of history, this is what happened and these were the good sides of it, these were the more dangerous sides of it, and this was the result.
One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
When I was a graduate student, the leading spirits at Harvard were interested in the history of ideas.
Then my extended family, there are preachers and evangelists, former priests. So I have quite a bit of history with Church, religion and spirituality.
Throughout its history, the international Olympic Committee has struggled to spread its ideal of fraternity, friendship, peace and universal understanding.
Uncertainty and fear and ignorance about immigrants, about people who are different, has a history as old as our Nation.
