#the history of

Knowing what paint a painter uses or having an understanding of where he was in the history of where he came from doesn't hurt your appreciation of the painting. ↗

— Jodie Foster

#came #having #history #hurt #knowing

You have to look at the history of the Middle East in particular. It has been one of failure and frustration, of feudalism and tribalism. ↗

— Alexander Haig

#east #failure #feudalism #frustration #history

I just think it would be unrealistic to suggest we're going to eliminate every last domestic insurgent in Afghanistan. Certainly, the history of the country would indicate that's not a very realistic objective, and I think we have to have realistic objectives. ↗

— Stephen Harper

#certainly #country #domestic #eliminate #every

The importance of the river cannot be overstated in the history of the country, or the development of the nation. ↗

— Maurice Hinchey

#country #development #history #importance #nation

Never in the history of cinema has a medium entertained an audience. It's what you do with the medium. ↗

— John Lasseter

#cinema #entertained #history #medium #never

I got more mail than anybody on the history of The Today Show, but half of it was to get me off the air. ↗

— Willard Scott

#anybody #get #got #half #history

We also have to make sure our children know the history of women. Tell them the rotten truth: It wasn't always possible for women to become doctors or managers or insurance people. Let them be armed with a true picture of the way we want it to be. ↗

— Anne Roiphe

#always #armed #become #children #doctors

May it not be that, just as we have to have faith in Him, God has to have faith in us and, considering the history of the human race so far, may it not be that "faith" is even more difficult for Him than it is for us? ↗

— W. H. Auden

#difficult #even #faith #far #god

In writing the history of a disease, every philosophical hypothesis whatsoever, that has previously occupied the mind of the author, should lie in abeyance. ↗

— Thomas Sydenham

#disease #every #history #hypothesis #lie

Social history might be defined negatively as the history of a people with the politics left out. ↗

— G. M. Trevelyan

#history #left #might #negatively #out