Pastoral Resources

We know that golf is an ancient game with great history and tradition, but our golf is only 10 years old so don't judge us too harshly.

You don't change the course of history by turning the faces of portraits to the wall.

A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new; when an age ends; and when the soul of a nation long suppressed finds utterance.

The visual information of art history is going to students seamlessly, without the enormous trouble those of us who are older had when we studied art history many years ago.

There was once a time when art history and film were basically the same medium, but art history is frozen in late-19th-century technology that has survived into the early 21st century.

History is one of those marvelous and necessary illusions we have to deal with. It's one of the ways of dealing with our world with impossible generalities which we couldn't live without.

A chronicle is very different from history proper.

I think there was a revolution in poetry, associated chiefly with Eliot and Pound; but maybe it is of the nature of revolutions or of the nature of history that their innovations should later come to look trivial or indistinguishable from technical tricks.

It's what the Iraqi people are going through right now. They have encountered a victorious, hostile force-but, you know, there they still are. There their culture is, there their history is, they're not going anywhere.

If we win, we'll make history, and I'll serve you on the Agriculture Committee.

In October, 1865, occurred what was, in my eyes, the greatest event in the history of the observatory. The new transit circle arrived from Berlin in its boxes.

One hardly knows where, in the history of science, to look for an important movement that had its effective start in so pure and simple an accident as that which led to the building of the great Washington telescope, and went on to the discovery of the satellites of Mars.

During the 1990s, San Francisco lived through one of the most intense economic booms of its history.

You know that's history, that's why some people say that my stuff is retro, but I don't agree.

I've been lucky. I've had this history of having an appeal to more than one type of audience.

The meetings of the legislature at Springfield then first brought together that splendid group of young men of genius whose phenomenal careers and distinguished services have given Illinois fame in the history of the nation.

Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore we must be saved by faith.

In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary.

I don't have a strong interest in history.

The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.