It is not I who have been consigned to the bedroom of history.
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.
Your great country is wonderful at stealing pieces of history and using it for its own purposes, so there didn't seem to be anything particularly unusual about it but the English were incredibly exercised about it.
The lovers of romance can go elsewhere for satisfaction but where can the lovers of truth turn if not to history?
Life is a wonderful thing to talk about, or to read about in history books - but it is terrible when one has to live it.
More than ever before in human history, we share a common destiny. We can master it only if we face it together. And that, my friends, is why we have the United Nations.
History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.
I had a minor in Russian history, and this was at the time when the big Cold War was going on.
I was a daydreamer, and there is a lot of history and geography and science I missed out on because I was in my head. And I regret that.
No, my degree was history, not the practice of art! I can't draw to save my life you know.
They killed my character off and as God would have it, just when they told me I would never work again, I got cast in a little program called Roots, and as they would say, the rest is history.
History is everything that has ever happened.
Crazy Horse saw history as integrated in the present, incorporated into daily life.
Winning the Revolutionary War, or the Civil War, or World War II were the turning points in our history, the sine qua non of our forward progress.
You don't hate history, you hate the way it was taught to you in high school.