Quotes About History

Nick and Simon had come to a natural end of their working relationship with Warren, which obviously opened the door for a reunion of the original five.

People think of the greatest home run hitters of all time and think of Babe Ruth; they don't think about that Warren Spahn hit more than anybody.

In my opinion, the Warren Commission's investigation has to be considered the most comprehensive investigation of a crime in history.

Joseph Warren, like a lot of revolutionary leaders, was into Enlightenment literature.

I started out as a Cold Warrior, even my last years in grade school.

Anne Boleyn was a warrior forced to use the only tools available to a woman in her position at that time. She was bold and ambitious, and had she had a son, history would have been very different.

People still knew me as Charles, so when I came across Charlemagne in a history book, that sounded good: Charles the Great, a warrior who used his power to spread religion and education. He was the head of the Carolingian dynasty, and with me being from South Carolina, that clicked.

I think Vikings have always been popular, haven't they? I remember being a kid and being in second grade reading a book about this Viking warrior.

I found 'Veer Shivajian' interesting project as it showcases the life of the great Maratha warrior and takes you back in history.

There was no better entrance in history than The Ultimate Warrior. It was the greatest entrance between the music that had that guitar riff, and that face paint, and the tassels, and the gear. It was the greatest!

Social justice warriors want to return to the Dark Ages when you communicated with a club instead of joining one.

I think that show will go down in history... people will scratch their heads and say 'How did this ever get on the air?' I mean, they finally have a planet that's populated with a black race and then they present them as savage warriors, and the men want the white girl!

In the past, goalies weren't even part of the team. They had their own dressing room. They didn't speak with the other team members. They were lone warriors.

All graffiti is low-level dissent, but stencils have an extra history. They've been used to start revolutions and to stop wars.

History is littered with wars which everybody knew would never happen.

Each nation feels superior to other nations. That breeds patriotism - and wars.

The past is prophetic in that it asserts loudly that wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.

Ip Man was an extraordinary man who lived during extraordinary times. He was born to a rich family when the country was still a monarchy and lived through various civil wars, revolutions, the Japanese invasion, and the establishment of the Republic.

In the last five or six thousand years, empires one after another have arisen, waxed powerful by wars of conquest, and fallen by internal revolution or attack from without.

The great wars of the 20th Century made it into the worst Century ever.

Our shared historical experiences led myself and Mitterrand to the decision that we must do everything to prevent further wars.

How can quality crime fiction not be produced with available subject matters as the Industrial Revolution, the Napoleonic Wars, the creation of organized police forces, the dawn of forensic science, and the rise and fall of Romanticism?

In the United States, female fisticuffs were marginalized, first as erotic vaudeville in the 19th century and later as serious competition developed in the first half of the 20th. Legal wars waged by boxers in the 1960s and '70s won women the right to compete professionally nationwide.

America has fought five wars since 1945 and has gained its objectives in only one of them, the Gulf War.