Quotes About History

We have a maxim in the House of Commons, and written on the walls of our houses, that old ways are the safest and surest ways.

It was very clear that this was a very, very old site. There were remains of sod walls. Fishermen assumed it was an old Indian site. Bu Indians didn't use that kind of buildings and houses.

When we went to Iraq, we stayed in one of Saddam's palaces. It was kind of creepy. If those walls could talk, there's no telling what stories they'd tell.

We feel closer to the drawings on the walls of Chauvet than the painting of, say, an Egyptian mural. These artists are not remote ancestors; they are brothers. They saw like us; they drew like us. We wear essentially the same clothes against the cold.

History is moving the furniture around in the house of mankind just about everywhere but the U.S.A. Things have changed, except here, where people come and go through the rooms of state, and everything looks shabbier by the day, and lethargy eats away at the upholstery like an acid fog, and the walls reverberate with meaningless oratory.

Perhaps we Germans are a bit sensitive when it comes to walls and race.

I've always envied Thomas Jefferson's bed at Monticello. It's in a tiny alcove, bound by walls at the head and foot.

The attacking philosophy is in the walls of Man United. That's tradition; that's history. That's how we play and want to play.

Twerking takes its place in a long line of dance moves deemed immoral, even apocalyptic. The waltz was called sinful because it demanded dangerously close contact between dance partners. In 1914, the tango earned a papal denunciation for being 'damaging to the soul.'

I love Rome and the way that you can wander around and find something interesting around every street corner. You can smell the history.

The Jewish story is the story of wandering. It is the story of extraordinary heterogeneous complication.

I remember coming back to the U.K. after spending five months in Charlotte for 'Homeland,' and I just found myself just wandering around London. There's nothing like it - the buildings, the architecture, the sense of history, the sense of culture - there really is nothing like it.

Home in Ireland, I went to Collins Barracks and spent some time wandering around, making notes on the various guns, knives and swords.

I love wandering around the vintage shops.

You don't wanna mess up what you've done. It's like Jordan coming back: You're scared to mess up the legacy.

History is important but... I just wanna sing Beyonce songs all day long in front of a mirror.

I wanna be a legend, I wanna be in the world books of records.

Nobody wants to be nameless. Nobody wanna be forgotten.

If you want to be a legend you have to fight with legends.

I can't think of the last Asian that I ran into that talked about internment camps. But black people always want to talk to me about slavery.

But I believe above all that I wanted to build the palace of my memory, because my memory is my only homeland.

I'd done a lot of research in Hollywood and in academia. I love research and so I wanted to kind of ground the book in history, in things that I read that were universal and timeless and then kind of let my own experiences sort of filter through all of this history.

It's what the people wanted at the time, but the country could not be half-segregated and half-integrated, just as it could not be half-slave and half-free back in the 1800s.

For me, understanding your heritage and wanting to leave a legacy was always important to me.