Pastoral Resources

I lead no party; I follow no leader. I have given the best part of my life to careful study of Islam, its law and polity, its culture, its history and its literature.

The possibility of a scientific treatment of history means a wider experience, a greater maturity of practical reason, and finally a fuller realization of certain basic ideas regarding the nature of life and time.

History is like a constantly changing tree.

I have thoroughly gone through the subject of the Incarnation; and if it served you, could at any time give you the history from the beginning of the controversies on this subject, and of its present form.

A woman's whole life is a history of the affections.

Our family arrived in England in 1960. At that time I thought the war was ancient history. But if I think of 15 years ago from now, that's 1990, and that seems like yesterday to me.

We discussed the history of postwar Japan and how Japan had missed an opportunity to build a more functional democracy because of the focus on fighting communism driven in large part by the American occupation.

We talked about the Internet and Wikipedia and how facts and history are being collectively created online.

For some reason, I grew up generally believing that Japan and Korea were quite friendly. I do know that there is some bad history and the extremists on both sides are unreasonable.

It is possible to read the history of this country as one long struggle to extend the liberties established in our Constitution to everyone in America.

I grew up in Europe, where the history comes from.

How could they call him wacko? He's sold more records than anybody in history.

Perhaps the most important lesson of the New Social Historians is that history belongs to those about whom or whose documents survive.

After Jackie Robinson the most important black in baseball history is Reggie Jackson, I really mean that.

The president's decision yesterday to set into motion the development of the hydrogen bomb... has placed us on the knife-edge of history.

The Bush administration is the most diverse in history because the president fills jobs on the basis of a person's capabilities and qualifications, not on the color of his or her skin.

In many ways, history is marked as 'before' and 'after' Rosa Parks. She sat down in order that we all might stand up, and the walls of segregation came down.

I think my parents were happy that I'd gone to university and gotten a degree in history so they thought, 'Well if acting doesn't work for him, he can always become a history teacher or something.' Fortunately, the acting worked out.

America has always imported history.

Du Bois marked a great stage in the history of Negro struggles when he said that Negroes could no longer accept the subordination which Booker T. Washington had preached.