History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are.
In the end, human history is made up of all our decisions.
American history contains much matter for pride and congratulation, and much matter for regret and humiliation.
Human history is highly nonlinear and unpredictable.
The history of agriculture is the history of humans breeding seeds and animals to produce traits we want in our crops and livestock.
I know of no time in human history where ignorance was better than knowledge.
History repeats itself. Historians repeat each other.
An obituary should be an exercise in contemporary history, not a funeral oration.
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
Making a history requires character; making an admirable history requires quality!
There are two types of people: street and home. Outdoor grow mostly on the street - are alcoholics, drug addicts, womanizer, players in the casino, criminals and so on. E., Almost all of them bad end, and with them it is better not to get involved, b...
Relatives share the same bloodline, but FAMILY shares your successes, pains, ambitions, celebrations, failures, values, love and so much more. I realize that many friends have become Family and some relatives just are not. (Analogy: Blood scatters ev...
A small family is soon provided for.
I love the word 'fashion.' That's why I'm using it in the title of this book. Fashion is about change and about creating clothes within a historical context. To me, dismissing fashion as silly or unimportant seems like a denial of history and frequen...
Everybody's got family, or they don't have family, but they come from somewhere.
Our family life was certainly not intellectual.
History is always written by the winners. When two cultures clash, the loser is obliterated, and the winner writes the history books-books which glorify their own cause and disparage the conquered foe. As Napoleon once said, 'What is history, but a f...
Going around in life using German, which Margaret had learned only a few years before, was like walking around in high heels--although it drove up the aesthetic rush of going out on the town, it was dreadfully uncomfortable after a while, and there w...
History is the long struggle of man, by exercise of his reason, to understand his environment and to act upon it. But the modern period has broadened the struggle in a revolutionary way. Man now seeks to understand, and act on, not only his environme...
In a perfectly designed world —one with no history— we would not have to suffer everything from hemorrhoids to cancer.
For anyone of a rational disposition, fashion is often nearly impossible to fathom. Throughout many periods of history – perhaps most – it can seem as if the whole impulse of fashion has been to look maximally ridiculous. If one could be maximall...
