The common people have no history: persecuted by the present, they cannot think of preserving the memory of the past.
I think that America has an obsession with history, really.
Knowing what paint a painter uses or having an understanding of where he was in the history of where he came from doesn't hurt your appreciation of the painting.
I loved psychology and I loved history.
We have to start processing what we're really made of in America. American character is not dead. American integrity and honesty are not dead. When we're backed up against the wall against the largest corporations in the history of corporations, it's...
The history of fossil-fuel development has always been that certain people are expendable. What's changed is that new, larger populations are now considered expendable.
What you have to understand about period drama is that it's 'history light.'
People tend to view history as if it were another planet and think the modern world was invented in 1963. I don't agree.
In the long course of history, having people who understand your thought is much greater security than another submarine.
Few men in our history have ever obtained the Presidency by planning to obtain it.
Let's be very honest about what this is about. It's not about bashing Democrats, it's not about taxes, they have no idea what the Boston tea party was about, they don't know their history at all. This is about hating a black man in the White House. T...
I was brought up to understand Darwin's theory of evolution. I spent hours and hours in the Natural History Museum in London looking at the descriptions of how different kinds of animals had evolved, looking at the sequence of fossil bones looking gr...
Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man.
In France, history is paralyzing.
President Obama is in no danger of being judged by history as an eco-radical.
In the many-mansioned house of Alternate History, I occupy a small corner. The trio of what-ifs I chronicled in 'Then Everything Changed' all begin with tiny, highly plausible twists of fate that lead to hugely consequential shifts in history.
History doesn't turn on a dime; it turns on a plugged nickel.
As a state we are so uniquely positioned in so many ways. Our geography, our placement in the country, and our history positions us to be the state that propels energy efficiency as an industry.
From a reality perspective, I'm sure part of that is true, but this is the largest blackout in U.S. history. If that is not a signal that we have got a problem that needs to be fixed, I don't know what is.
Every single immigrant is part of a larger history that needs to be communicated in all its ambivalences and complexities.
No people in the history of the world have ever been so misunderstood, so misjudged, and so cruelly maligned.
