I was struck by the way Europeans see history as something neatly linear. For me, it's not that; it's not some kind of straight railway.
I turned pro and won Rookie of the Year on the South African Tour and then it took me two tries at the qualifying school on the European Tour and to get my card and the rest is history.
'Paquita' has a patchy history, beginning in 1846, and a patchy plot.
I'd always try to get a C, maybe a B. Other girls would trot off a brilliant essay and go off to Oxford; I'd think: 'Where is the justice?' I took A-levels in English, history and theatre studies and got three Bs.
Rules governing defecation, hygiene, and pollution exist in every culture at every period in history. It may in fact be the foundation of civilization: What is toilet training if not the first attempt to turn a child into an acceptable member of soci...
I probably saved more black lives as mayor of New York City than any mayor in the history of this city. And I did it by having to use police officers in black areas where there was an astounding amount of crime. If that crime was in white areas, poli...
I always try to put something personal on my albums just to give people out there a little piece of my history and how I got where I am and who I am.
It is ironic that the United States should have been founded by intellectuals, for throughout most of our political history, the intellectual has been for the most part either an outsider, a servant or a scapegoat.
I think history is continuous. It doesn't begin or end on Pearl Harbor Day or the day Lyndon Johnson withdraws from the presidency or on 9/11. You have to learn from the past but not be imprisoned by it. You need to take counsel of history but never ...
Of all the species of literary composition, perhaps biography is the most delightful. The attention concentrated on one individual gives a unity to the materials of which it is composed, which is wanting in general history.
History is what we bring to it, not just the events themselves, but how we interpret those events.
My parents were interested in history and the world. My father read Graham Greene and Georges Simenon and was a strong trade unionist and Labour supporter.
The social and economic impact of innovative American researchers, companies, and workers over the course of U.S. history have been enormous.
I'm always made a little uncomfortable by studies that assert that Millennials are the most narcissistic generation in history. To me, being young has always meant being self-absorbed; in many ways, that's what youth is for.
Today's population of adolescents and young adults is the largest in our nation's history.
Language is an archaeological vehicle... the language we speak is a whole palimpsest of human effort and history.
After Jackie Robinson the most important black in baseball history is Reggie Jackson, I really mean that.
No tyrant, however evil, has yet lacked ready hands to execute his most abominable will. To read how eagerly men have rushed to serve the despot is the bitterest, the saddest matter of history; it is the saddest sight in our own day.
History has always been a series of pendulum swings, but the individual doesn't have to get caught in that.
History seems to be so clumsy.
The history of the white man in India really jumped up and bit me in the neck.
