Quotes About History

Why would you create a movie for black people if you don't understand the history and perspective of the people you are doing it for? You need historical perspective to make sound decisions.

There are lots of stories about my culture that I think bring a whole other perspective to who we are and where we have been and how we got here that I think need to be done.

England as a culture has endured so much more than America has as a culture, so it's given them a different perspective.

One gains a double benefit in writing about the past, conjuring up how things might have been, and at the same time acquiring a different perspective on the present.

If you read any of my books, they tend to have a strong historical perspective.

How different our national perspective would be had Johnson, rather than Nixon, served from 1969 to 1973.

It has taken a lot of persuasion for me to take part in an official documentary about 'Only Fools and Horses.' But, as time has gone on, it seems to have been imprinted in television history, and I thought it was only right that I tried to give an accurate insight into how the show was put together.

The name of Peru was not known to the natives.

Peru was the Incas; it has 3,000 to 4,000 years of history.

Whether we like it or not, there are moments in history when pessimism is the appropriate response.

Peter Dinklage is one of my oldest friends from New York!

My great-grandfather, Peter O'Hara, was born in Ireland, I believe, in County Clare. His father, my great-great-grandfather, had actually come to America a generation before when times were very bad in Ireland. He worked in the Pennsylvania area and did well with horses and farming.

I heard about the Holocaust before hearing the 'Cinderella' story or watching 'Peter Pan.'

Such great goalkeepers have played in England over the years - the likes of Gordon Banks, Peter Shilton, and Bert Trautmann.

Y'all know how we have dogs and stuff right? So I think it was bigger people in the world before us, and the dinosaurs was they pets.

The road to some of the darkest moments of history have been paved with the rants of petty demagogues against ethnic minorities for centuries.

I don't want to think much about my injury in Australia. That phase is history.

There has always been interest in certain phases and aspects of history - military history is a perennial bestseller, the Civil War, that sort of thing. But I think that there is a lot of interest in historical biography and what's generally called narrative history: history as story-telling.

Back home, the Iron Bowl isn't just a football game, it's a phenomenon.

For most of human history, there was a ruling class and then there was everybody else. If you were part of everybody else, it wasn't your job to imagine a different future, different ways of doing things. So, imagination is a fairly modern phenomenon.

The idea of literalism in the Bible is a very new phenomenon. In many ways, it's a product of the scientific revolution.

The business of return migration is a phenomenon that historians have indeed begun to look at, but it is rather an ignored and underplayed story and one that we need to know more about.

You look at passers-by in Rome and think, 'Do they know what they have here?' You can say the same about Philadelphia. Do people know what went on here?

We are serious about our music here in Philadelphia, and jazz has meant a lot to this city.