It has been generally the custom of writers on natural history to take the habits and instincts of animals as the fixed point, and to consider their structure and organization as specially adapted to be in accordance with them.
I just feel that I don't agree with sensationalized versions of history or me. Any version that's sensationalized.
All graffiti is low-level dissent, but stencils have an extra history. They've been used to start revolutions and to stop wars.
You learn history in school, and you have a reverential feeling toward it. But by being irreverent, it feels current.
Nigeria has had a complicated colonial history. My work has examined that part of our story extensively.
Never in the history of fashion has so little material been raised so high to reveal so much that needs to be covered so badly.
To those who have chosen the profession of medicine, a knowledge of chemistry, and of some branches of natural history, and, indeed, of several other departments of science, affords useful assistance.
In America we have a Declaration of Independence, but our history, our advancements, our global strength all point to an American declaration of interdependence.
History shows that it's not smart for states to pay more to get jobs; you just get into the race to the bottom.
I've made a dog's breakfast of English history, geography, 'King Lear,' and the English language in general.
Throughout history, ambassadors have always been symbolic incarnations of the sovereignty of their nations and the dignity of their leaders.
From the beginning of our history the country has been afflicted with compromise. It is by compromise that human rights have been abandoned.
I think people should look at learning about Native American history the same as visiting Washington, D.C., and seeing the monuments there. It's all part of the package.
This is what Hollywood tends to do. It tends to disregard tradition, history and anything factual, twisting it and turning it and making it all okay regardless of what the English may think of it.
I'm interested in history, in trying to relate the past to the present and to understand how people thought about their problems and pleasures.
There is nothing glorious about what our ancestors call history. It is simply a succession of mistakes, intolerances and violations.
Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and history.
You can only get really unpopular decisions through if the electorate is convinced of the value of the environment. That's what natural history programmes should be for.
History teaches us that, whatever we say, racists will always distort the words of mainstream politicians to make themselves sound more respectable.
Harrison Ford was pretty content as a carpenter who thought it would be nice to work on TV and ended up being the biggest film star in the history of cinema.
The advantages found in history seem to be of three kinds, as it amuses the fancy, as it improves the understanding, and as it strengthens virtue.
