Quotes About History

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Shakespeare was completely fictionalising the people who were then the great celebrities of English.

I was the first woman in a Hell in a Cell match that wasn't part of the Four Horsewomen, so there was a lot of pressure involved.

Celtic is the right place: the history, the fans - it's a place I want to score more goals.

I've always loved cemeteries since I was a kid. They're very calm.

When I went to the 2007 Europeans with the Under-21s, we were based at Oosterbeek near Arnhem and I went out on my bike a few times. We went over the bridge. I went to some of the war cemeteries there: very, very moving.

The extraordinary thing about new words is that probably only about one per cent of them are new. Most are old words revived and adapted.

Culture is central to what makes us human.

Modi made history in 2014 by becoming the first non-Congress government at the Centre to get absolute majority.

It's worth noting that at the time of the American Revolution, no sane person would have given two cents for its success.

There's no one who has been living for centuries.

Damascus was the seat of the Ummayad Caliphate in the 7th and 8th centuries.

In reality, Afghanistan has functioned as a nation-state for more than two centuries, and its army and bureaucracy reach back to the 19th century.

I am one of the hardest-hitting light-middleweights they've had for centuries.

Any team can have a bad century.

I'd like to do a story about the medieval ages where in every scene you'd sort of feel that you were in the 12th century. That would be great to get that feeling.

Well, I certainly wouldn't want to live in the 18th century myself, or the 19th either, for that matter.

The only way we'll know where we're going is to look at the past and to remember who we were through ceremonies and rituals.

I read certain things about history. I don't like fiction. I read about stuff that's real, stuff that's goin' on in the world.

There is a long history of how DNA sequencing can bring certainty to people's lives.

I don't have a birth certificate.

That was the fight. I knew that I had done something that no man had been able to do to a champion.

People know I was the last true champion.

I googled 'Gabby Douglas,' and all these things popped up like 'Gabby Douglas makes history!' And 'She's the champion!'