Quotes About Historical figure

Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space, may have had his charms, but he really couldn't be considered hip.

I feel a great responsibility playing a historical figure because whether they were good or bad, I feel like the person deserves a fair shake. It's like being the executor of their estate in some ways.

I research the role, and if it's a literary character, I read the book, and if it's an historical figure, I research documents and biographies. If it's a fictional character, I work off the script.

Colonel Burr sat wreathed in smoke from a long seegar.

A man named Hitler from Germany has lots of soldiers following him. He calls them storm troopers.

It was as if the news itself wanted to reassure me. Even Jack the Ripper himself had reappeared as part of the greeting committee.

Truly, Buffon was the father of all thought in natural history in the second half of the 18th century.

There is nothing that will make an Englishman shit so quick as the sight of General Washington.

I want Chinese history to remember me as Carnegie is remembered. I want Chinese people to remember me as they remember Marx and Lenin.

Thomas Jefferson Day, the anniversary of the third president's birth.

Washington's birthday is worthy of celebration - he is one of the greatest men in history. But Washington himself would likely have seen celebration of the office of the presidency itself as monarchic in nature.

Bill Clinton is the greatest president of the 20th century because I played touch football with him.

There's a natural tendency to sanitize and polish any historical icon whether it be George Washington chopping down the cherry tree or Martin Luther King saying, "I have a dream."

I majored in geology in college but have majored in Herbert Hoover ever since.

Robespierre

We are each so atomically numerous and so vigorously recycled at death that a significant number of our atoms—up to a billion for each of us, it has been suggested—probably once belonged to Shakespeare. A billion more each came from Buddha and Genghis Khan and Beethoven, and any other historical figure you care to name.

Exhausted by the stresses, Phillip was called home after four years, and retired to Bath. Apart from founding Sydney, he had one other notable achievement. In 1814, he managed to die by falling from a wheelchair and out of an upstairs window.

Mussolini was a wanker.

I love the fact that one of history's greatest heroes had a job title—agronomist—that most of us have never even heard of.

focusing on a Major Dick Long of the 73rd Ohio, who possessed "a killing set of whiskers

Apologetic explanations do not develop unless there is a reality that has to be explained and defended. Jesus was undeniably a figure of history.

There has been only one manager, and his name is John McGraw.

Johnny Cash was like Abraham Lincoln to me.

General Grant seriously remarked to a particularly bright young woman that Venice would be a fine city if it were drained.