Quotes About History

I have always been fascinated by the story of Henrietta Lacks.

The BJP lacks the sense of history.

When the Ladies Chess Club was founded in London in 1895 and the first international women-only competition took place two years later, most clubs and competitions didn't accept women at all.

Queerness isn't just Lady Gaga and overpriced drinks and fauxhawks. It's James Baldwin and Bea Arthur and Gertrude Stein and Gore Vidal.

The first time Adam had a chance, he laid the blame on women.

It is almost everywhere the case that soon after it is begotten the greater part of human wisdom is laid to rest in repositories.

There was a manifesto in the late '60s/early '70s, and it basically laid out what 'black art' was and that it should embrace black history and black culture. There were all these rules - I was shocked, when I found it in a book, that it even existed, that it would demarcate these artists.

If it's a role like this one, an actual live person, a legend, there's lots of material laid out.

Our history is imperfect, but it has laid the groundwork for the greatest experiment in democracy the world has ever known: America.

Any time you have any type of record in any record book, especially with the Lakers, it is pretty special.

You can't just live in the past, peddling the '80s Showtime Lakers, and expect everyone to know what that is. We have many fans who weren't even alive in the '80s.

We are proud of the Lakers, proud to be a part of the organization's history.

Floral emblems have been often adopted. The houses of York and Lancaster had their roses, the Bourbons of France, the fleur-de-lis, Scotland her thistle, and Ireland her shamrock.

Here I found those who had set out before me, both by sea and land, except those who have died.

As a result of the historic catastrophe in which Titus of Rome destroyed Jerusalem and Israel was exiled from its land, I was born in one of the cities of the Exile.

The Academy of Architecture in Mendrisio comes from afar. Our land has a millennial history of emigrations: master masons, architects, builders, decorators, plasterers, artists from the world of building.

The Eagle has landed.

Fishing has been part of our culture since we landed here.

Lands of great discoveries are also lands of great injustices.

I feel like I'm part of history being made. I leave Apple board meetings thinking, 'I've got to do a better job.'

The relationship between me and President Mandela right at the beginning was not a very well-established relationship. It was based on two meetings.

Doing away with separate black colleges meets resistance from alumni and other blacks.

Antonio Pena, the founder of AAA, and I worked together in 2002/2003. I have worked with the Pena family for years. I am the longest-reigning non-Mexican Mega Champion.

But the eighteenth century, on the whole, loathed melancholy.