Quotes About History

I am a musician by rights, and I played in Asbury Park in the old African Room in the Robert Trent Hotel next to the Albion. That was in the early '60s.

I love Asbury Park. It's like the Liverpool of America.

I am a big fan of 'E.T.,' of course. And I remember watching 'Jurassic Park' - I was so into it. Oh, and 'Schindler's List.' That one was amazing, too.

In the old days, you know, they didn't have batting cages. And in most ball parks, they only had one runway to the dugout.

We've actually named asteroids for other famous women in history, like Rosa Parks, Harriet Tubman, and Sojourner Truth. But it's really this Malala one that's catching people's attention.

When I was 15 years old in 1955, I heard of Rosa Parks. I heard the words of Martin Luther King, Jr. on our radio.

There are over 400 parks in all 50 states that represent our country and that are enriched with stories that tell about how our country became what it is today. There is a lot of history frozen in these places.

Fascism in Uruguay did not begin just with the military coup of 1973, but years before, even when there was still a government with a constitution and parliament.

The whole history of music has turned out to be something perfect. It's all come around. The music we did with Funkadelic and Parliament was the DNA for hip-hop.

Parliament's centuries of history have been overwhelmingly dominated by men, but things are changing.

The Russian parliament has condemned the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact.

Iranians launched their constitutional revolution in 1906 and established their parliament soon afterward.

I'm the fifth president of Haiti to rule without a parliament.

The British Parliament always has adjusted and that is why it is the oldest in the world, because it takes its lead from the British people.

Canada evolved within the British Empire: it inherited the Parliamentary system, the Cabinet system and all the other features of the British constitutional system which had been in place, for the most part, for several centuries before Canada was even thought of.

I'm so happy to be a part of Russian MMA history by headlining the first UFC event in Russia.

Language is an intrinsic part of who we are and what has, for good or evil, happened to us.

Of course, people will be partial, but I put myself among the best in history.

I wanted to write history rather than participate in it.

There are so many things I'm so proud of: if we're talking just in-ring stuff, participating in the first-ever women's royal rumble. I was so grateful to be a part of history. I never thought there would be an all-women's royal rumble.

I believe that when it comes to the creation of Sankalp Patra, India in its history has never seen such participation of people.

Our ancestors went through so much in a fight for us to vote. So I believe that we should engage in all civic participation. It's healthy engagement.

Traditionally in American cinema, Black men and women's participation in world wars is often not even represented at all.

Man's naked form belongs to no particular moment in history; it is eternal, and can be looked upon with joy by the people of all ages.