Their memory's like a train: you can see it getting smaller as it pulls away And the things you can't remember Tell the things you can't forget that History puts a saint in every dream.

History shows you don't know what the future brings.

Europe has a long and tragic history of mostly domestic terrorism.

I hated the lost colony; in second grade, we were doing American History, and they said, We don't know what happened to them. That drove me nuts. That lost colony drove me crazy.

History is full of really good stories. That's the main reason I got into this racket: I want to make the argument that history is interesting.

There is nothing glorious about what our ancestors call history. It is simply a succession of mistakes, intolerances and violations.

Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.

History should be written as philosophy.

History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes.

Marriage is a core institution of societies throughout the world and throughout history. It's something that has provided permanence and stability for our very social structure.

I was reading a book... 'the history of glue' - I couldn't put it down.

History is history.

My friends, history, history calls us to this time and to this place. A solemn choice rests with us - where do we go from here? Do we move slowly and incrementally? Or do we seize the challenge of our time and tackle the great issues of our day.

Of late years (perhaps as a result of our political changes) art has borrowed from history more than ever.

France, for example, loves at the same time history and the drama, because the one explores the vast destinies of humanity, and the other the individual lot of man.