Pastoral Resources

I lived in a region in the northwestern province - the people there in general have a great love for the Taliban, so I started to read some of the literature of the scholars and the history of the movement. And my heart became attached to them.

There's a preoccupation with memory and the operation of memory and a rather rapacious interest in history.

Equally, we require a collective past - hence the endless reinterpretations of history, frequently to suit the perceptions of the present.

I have long been interested in landscape history, and when younger and more robust I used to do much tramping of the English landscape in search of ancient field systems, drove roads, indications of prehistoric settlement.

This above all makes history useful and desirable; it unfolds before our eyes a glorious record of exemplary actions.

Of course, one way of thinking about all of life and civilization is as being about how the world registers and processes information. Certainly that's what sex is about; that's what history is about.

I definitely felt that I was put at a very high place to be able to be a part of such a wonderful franchise in cinema history, so I was definitely very driven at doing a great job and having my body look the way it should and just being a part of the creative process.

I have not lived so abundantly, full of family, full of continuity and history.

I am now reading Cooper's Naval History which I find very interesting.

If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.

Dorothy is the only woman in history who has had her menopause in public and made it pay.

It's a struggle but that's why we exist, so that another generation of Lesbians of color will not have to invent themselves, or their history, all over again.

The history of mankind is a history of war.

There aren't just bad people that commit genocide; we are all capable of it. It's our evolutionary history.

There is little evidence that our individual intelligence has improved through recorded history.

Gardeners instinctively know that flowers and plants are a continuum and that the wheel of garden history will always be coming full circle.

At Munich we sold the Czechs for a few months grace, but the disgrace will last as long as history.

Even in high school I was very interested in history - why people do the things they do. As a kid I spent a lot of time trying to relate the past to the present.

It's very likely that graduates, current employees and retirees have some wonderful pieces of Deer Park history in their closets or garages.

I have seen how effective language attached to policies that are mainstream and delivered by people who are passionate and effective can change the course of history.