I think we fool ourselves and really negate a great deal of history if we think that the oral history of poetry is shorter than the written history of poetry. It's not true. Poetry has a longer oral tradition than it does written.
It is the vice of the journalist, I once wrote, to think that history can always be reduced to experience, and of the scholar to think that experience can always be reduced to history. History and experience are far more frequently out of sync, or ru...
Where there is power, there is resistance.
God abhors a naked singularity.
The histories of mankind are histories only of the higher classes.
Television and film are our libraries now. Our history books.
History never looks like history when you are living through it.
Democracy is but an experiment in the long history of the world.
Music is part of history, and our history has lessons that cannot be separated from our greatest music.
You have one family, Charley. For good or bad. You have one family. You can’t trade them in. You can’t lie to them. You can’t run two at once, substituting back and forth. “Sticking with your family is what makes it a family.
Nana’s oven-baked fried chicken cut off the bone (with plenty of ketchup) was a huge hit. So were Thanksgiving turkey bathed in gravy and Nana’s Passover brisket
The worst thing a man can admit is 'I'm not 100 percent fulfilled by my family.' But it doesn't mean he doesn't love his family. I love my family, but I still want to work; I still want challenges. It took me a while to fall in love with the responsi...
Family is always first - always, always, always first. As a matter of fact, there was a time when I was thinking of running for Governor in California, and I sat with my family. We all discussed it. It was with the three kids. We sat there, and I pol...
I'm not a royal family watcher.
Family is a choice...Parents and siblings are your relations. Family takes care of one another and helps each other.
Unlike her, he came from a good family. A prechopped pepper kind of family.
Our family had been shattered, but we now are more united, and the remains of my family and the majority of my mother's family are glad to know the truth about a horrible crime.
The left dismisses talk about the collapse of family life and talks instead about the emergence of the growing new diversity of family types.
When liberals finally grasped the strength of popular feeling about the family, they cried to appropriate the rhetoric and symbolism of family values for their own purposes.
I don't come from money or an educated family background or any sort of supportive family life, so all of my choices are made on my own.
I came from a very musical family, so I grew up singing karaoke with the family. My family said 'do this' and brought me to singing lessons. I had always been writing poems and songs.
