When I was deciding whether or not to take the job at Celine, I didn't really look at the history of the house. I had other offers to come back, but they weren't right, or they wouldn't let me stay in London, which was non-negotiable.
No country in history ever sent mothers of toddlers off to fight enemy soldiers until the United States did this in the Iraq war.
The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.
A day spent praising the earth and lamenting man's pollutionist history makes you feel like a superior, sensitive soul.
For style and for creating a mood of optimism and hope - Kennedy on that count is as effective as any president the country has had in its history.
My feeling is that it's a misreading of history to say that, as the Reagan supporters do, that Reagan won the Cold War.
I arrived from Harvard, where I had studied philosophy and the history of ideas, with a bias toward literature and formal thought.
Hollywood has a history of raising expectations beyond Washington's reach, of appealing to the very American desire to mythologize political leaders, particularly the president.
History is what we bring to it, not just the events themselves, but how we interpret those events.
I'm probably the only kid in history whose parents made him stop taking music lessons. They made me stop studying the accordion.
Cut quarrels out of literature, and you will have very little history or drama or fiction or epic poetry left.
Was it not enough punishment and suffering in history that we were uprooted and made helpless slaves not only in new colonial outposts but also domestically.
Inflation is bringing us true democracy. For the first time in history, luxuries and necessities are selling at the same price.
I'm reverent toward my sources. History is a team sport, and references are how you support your teammates.
A lot of history is just dirty politics cleaned up for the consumption of children and other innocents.
History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.
To me, Cary Grant is probably the most fashionable man in the history of Hollywood. The guy was just slick. He did it so effortlessly.
I teach at USC, and it's obvious to anyone who teaches college students that they don't cover much modern history and certainly not the modern presidency.
Only a tiny portion of music history involves a singer and a lyric. Songs in music are generally thought to be a minor form.
Texas was such a welcoming place, and with its unbelievable history and tradition, it's extra special to be a part of that.
When the rose and the cross are united the alchemical marriage is complete and the drama ends. Then we wake from history and enter eternity.
