A lot of history is just dirty politics cleaned up for the consumption of children and other innocents.
History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.
To me, Cary Grant is probably the most fashionable man in the history of Hollywood. The guy was just slick. He did it so effortlessly.
I teach at USC, and it's obvious to anyone who teaches college students that they don't cover much modern history and certainly not the modern presidency.
Only a tiny portion of music history involves a singer and a lyric. Songs in music are generally thought to be a minor form.
Texas was such a welcoming place, and with its unbelievable history and tradition, it's extra special to be a part of that.
When the rose and the cross are united the alchemical marriage is complete and the drama ends. Then we wake from history and enter eternity.
My true love is history, but I didn't know how I could make a living at it.
You don't hate history, you hate the way it was taught to you in high school.
It's absolutely crucial for the Democrats to have a sense of their history, of who they are, in order to be able to project their values and stand up for them.
History serves as a model not only of who and what we are to be, we learn what to champion and what to avoid.
I'm a hopeless mother; a hopeless wife; I have to try harder. I'm just a pathetic case history, really.
What you see is that the most outstanding feature of life's history is a constant domination by bacteria.
I am not a physician, but I am deeply interested in diagnostic categories and have read extensively in the history of the subject.
There will always be something about two men in the ring - a mystique because it's pure man-to-man competition. Because of the history boxing has and the tradition it holds, boxing will always have a that mystique.
Skepticism is an important historical tool. It is the starting point of all revision of hitherto accepted history.
The Jews' greatest contribution to history is dissatisfaction! We're a nation born to be discontented. Whatever exists we believe can be changed for the better.
From the very beginning, history wasn't content simply to be nostalgic fairytales; it wanted to make you think.
By the time Florence Nightingale got her neurotic hands on Cleopatra, she had been mangled beyond recognition by both history and literature.
For thousands of years, men have written history, so it seems to me that most of what we've read is from the male point of view.
I joke with my kids, who love history, that I'll be the only governor to be elected twice in his first term.
