Sometimes history takes things into its own hands.

Young women today often have very little appreciation for the real battles that took place to get women where they are today in this country. I don't know how much history young women today know about those battles.

Nigeria has had a complicated colonial history. My work has examined that part of our story extensively.

The history of thought may be summed up in these words: it is absurd by what it seeks and great by what it finds.

History is the science of things which are not repeated.

I learned more from my mother than from all the art historians and curators who have informed me about technical aspects of art history and art appreciation over the years.

Very few conflicts in the history of the world have been satisfactorily concluded according to a published timetable because you lose all flexibility in dealing with your opponents.

World history is a court of judgment.

Man's naked form belongs to no particular moment in history it is eternal and can be looked upon with joy by the people of all ages.

Having bought furniture for my own house and bought furniture for our house in Washington a furniture store seemed like a good idea and it also played into my personal history.

The United States is the only power in history that became great by giving and not by taking. I think the crisis was when the United States had more money than ideas. Money doesn't produce money. Ideas produce money.

I do consider myself part of black history.

I do have to say that I think that President Obama is the greatest President in the history of all of our Presidents and that he can do no wrong in my book. So how's that for prejudice on the Democratic side?

When the rose and the cross are united the alchemical marriage is complete and the drama ends. Then we wake from history and enter eternity.

I'm a history nut.

September 11 was terrible but if one goes back over the history of the IRA what happened to the Americans wasn't that terrible.

The becoming of man is the history of the exhaustion of his possibilities.

Our national history has so often filled us with bitterness and the feeling of helplessness.

At times we were forced to go through a history of dependence unable to determine our own destiny. But today we are at the threshold of a new turning point.

There are certain moments in the history of a nation when the choices made define the decades to come.

Obama has seen to the passage of the most radical legislation in recent American history and so-called 'progressives' should be thanking him for it - even as many of the rest of us rear in horror from its implications.

Nixon in 1968 unlike Obama 2008 was elected as a minority president with only 43 percent of the vote. Yet in 1972 he won what in some measures was the most lopsided election in American history with 61 percent.

Robots have a rich and storied history in movies.

History is little more than the register of the crimes follies and misfortunes of mankind.