In a country like France so ancient their history is full of outstanding people so they carry a heavy weight on their back. Who could write in French after Proust or Flaubert?

We've been a country that's been fortunate to be protected by two oceans to not have serious attacks on our territory for most of our history. And we were unfortunately reminded in a very devastating way of our vulnerability.

Throughout this country's history there have of course been systematic efforts to create an official underclass.

I think there was a revolution in poetry associated chiefly with Eliot and Pound but maybe it is of the nature of revolutions or of the nature of history that their innovations should later come to look trivial or indistinguishable from technical tricks.

History is one of those marvelous and necessary illusions we have to deal with. It's one of the ways of dealing with our world with impossible generalities which we couldn't live without.

I'm not sure history has ended.

Macon has such a rich musical history - and the state of Georgia as well.

I have a long-standing history of respecting artists' wishes.

You have to be there not for the fame and glory and recognition and being a page in a history book but you have to be there because you believe your talent and ability can be applied effectively to operation of the spacecraft.

Of course the Republicans have long wanted to privatize Social Security and destroy it. But Social Security has been the most important and valuable social program in the history of the United States.

I must admit maybe I am a piece of history after all.

Life doesn't just happen it's constructed through the history of power. And that's something I am interested in and so is the art world: a world that's trying to engage socially with a leftist slant to work out how we got here.

I am intrigued by inanimate objects. They're a piece of history someone's statement and ideas of life.

The path towards a free society has not been simple. There are tragic and glorious pages in our history.

I'm the fourth generation to be in show business. It's pretty neat it's nice to have that family history.

If the history of the past fifty years teaches us anything it is that peace does not follow disarmament - disarmament follows peace.

To this wonderful page in our country's history another more glorious still will be added and the slave shall show at last to his free brothers a sharpened sword forged from the links of his fetters.

I know every note in every song the whole history of it even parts that were there and are gone.

With our knowledge of modern-day genetics we realize that it was possible for God to place the potential for all people throughout history into the genes of Adam and Eve when He created them.

God has never in the history of mankind allowed his name to go long offended.

There's a difference between knowing what's on the page in a history book and actually feeling that page have curves and valleys.

Watch the History Channel if you want it literal and historically perfect.

I think there's a lot of deep-rooted history in England with racing. Lots of Formula One teams are based there. Formula One is obviously a huge sport over in England and Europe.

It was one of those great miracles of history that they managed to smuggle an Enigma machines out to Britain just before they were invaded by the Nazis.