To paint a leaf, you have to sacrifice the whole landscape. It might seem like you're limiting yourself at first, but after a while you realize that having a quarter-of-an-inch of something you have a better chance of holding on to a certain feeling ...
She [my mother] was the force around which our world turned. My mother was propelled through the universe by the brute force of reason. She was the judge in all our arguments. One disapproving word from her was enough to send us off to hide in a corn...
Whether I like it or not, most of my images of what various historical periods feel, smell, or sound like were acquired well before I set foot in any history class. They came from Margaret Mitchell, from Anya Seton, from M.M. Kaye, and a host of othe...
The full Christian experience, however, is not an individual experience which may be isolated from all else; it is, unconditionally, an experience within the context of the Church. It is 'a personal history which is imbedded in the greater history of...
Many lessons can be learned from the history of Western civilization, but one of them is especially clear. Lack of involvement in the affairs of one's society can lead to a sense of powerlessness. In an age that is often crisis-laden and chaotic, an ...
Terror is not a new weapon. Throughout history it has been used by those who could not prevail, either by persuasion or example. But inevitably they fail, either because men are not afraid to die for a life worth living, or because the terrorists the...
[Edie is driving Tom home from his shop] Edie Stall: We never got to be teenagers together. Tom Stall: Uh-hunh. Edie Stall: I'm gonna fix that. [the children are away; when they get home, she goes into their daughter's bathroom while he cleans their ...
Histories are instruments of oppression.
It's a blindness thing, faith.
I had not expected 'A Brief History of Time' to be a best seller.
History is the stories we tell about the past.
A step backward is a step forward in history
Men make their own history, but they do not make it as they please.
History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme.
History has demonstrated that efforts to censure and control communication will not succeed.
History will dictate what my legacy is. And 'maverick' is fine, because I am.
Barack Obama is the worst President in history.
I'm not keen on history being tampered with... to any extent.
History's like a story in a way: it depends on who's telling it.
I'm always interested in looking - historically - at how theater can animate history and how all of that can make us engage with our lives in an enriching way.
You have to look at history as an evolution of society.
