From the beginning of the presidential nominating conventions in the 1830's really through the 1950's, you had conventions that actually did real business.
If I weren't performing, there is a real chance that I would be a 'One Man, Two Guvnors' groupie. I think that production is masterful in every way.
Late-19th-century America, with all its chaotic change and immense potential, seems to have been the perfect place to become not someone else, but someone new.
Of the twenty-two civilizations that have appeared in history, nineteen of them collapsed when they reached the moral state the United States is in now.
In the more recently disclosed field of history in the ancient Near East, however, there has been no such sense of responsibility displayed by historians either in Europe or America.
In the closing years of the nineteenth century, African-American historians began to look at their people's history from their vantage point and their point of view.
Democracy is difficult and demanding. So is history. It can crack your voice; it can stir your soul; it can break your heart.
The history of Christianity, therefore, must be of concern to all who are interested in the record of man and particularly to all who seek to understand the contemporary human scene.
History can predict nothing except that great changes in human relationships will never come about in the form in which they have been anticipated.
In the Federal Government, electronic records are as indispensable as their paper counterparts for documenting citizens' rights, the actions for which officials are accountable, and the nation's history.
When the entertainers of the Right aren't declaring their disgust with President Obama for groveling before foreign potentates, they're pretending to fear him as a left-wing thug, an exemplar of what they call 'the Chicago way.'
Connection is very important. It's extremely important for me to be connected and sharing with other people, giving them what I feel is important.
Dr. Carter: Have you seen anything strange? Lt. Col. Bill Cage: Is he shitting me?
Rubin 'Hurricane' Carter: [to Les] It's very important to transcend places that hold us.
Carlene Carter: [shouts through screen door] Mama! Johnny Cash is here!
Thomas: What are you doing here? Carter Chambers: Fighting for my life. You?
Carter Chambers: Is it Tommy or Thomas? Thomas: It's Matthew, actually. He thought that was too biblical...
Edward Cole: [about Carter] The last months of his life were the best months of mine.
I think I'm going to have to live vicariously through my daughter's rebellion because I certainly never did go through adolescence.
Jimmy Conway: What's the fuckin' matter with you? What - what is the fuckin' matter with you? What are you, stupid or what? Tommy, Tommy, I'm kidding with you. What the fuck are you doin'? What are you, a fuckin' sick maniac? Tommy DeVito: How am I m...
I better go," Carter squeezed me once more and stood, grabbing his wallet from the coffee table. "I need to hit up the lottery if I want to get you out of this mess. Will you let me buy a monkey if we win, though?" "Only if you buy me an island off t...
