The monuments of the nations are all protests against nothingness after death; so are statues and inscriptions; so is history.
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.
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.
How many writers in history have ever been as famous as Stephen King? He casts an awfully long shadow.
Through history, people look for something spiritual. The greatest scientists in the world were men of religion and faith, too.
The future will use and dispose of the memories of people that we knew as history sees fit.
Only through acknowledgment of the erasure and void of Jewish life can the history of Berlin and Europe have a human future.
History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.
The history of the relationship between comedy and swimming is short indeed. Of course it is always funny when someone falls into water, but that's about it.
