Quotes About History

I love the flamboyance, the melodrama, the bloody theatre of Russian history.

I was not a member of the SS.

In 1930 I became a member of the Reichstag.

My mother was a member of the Cape Coloured community. 'Coloured' is the South African word for the half-caste community that was a by-product of the early contact between black and white.

I've been acting a long time. I've been a member of SAG since 1982.

As a former member of the IRA, I accept all the responsibilities that are due to me. But in terms of the individual circumstances, I don't comment on that.

Don't you talk to me about members of the Royal Family, you know I am not going to talk about them. Diana's dead. Talking about dead people is history.

I never thought I would write a memoir at age 40... but I did have this unique place in history.

'Dreams from My Father' was not a memoir or an autobiography; it was instead, in multitudinous ways, without any question a work of historical fiction.

Memoirs are the backstairs of history.

'Undertones of War' by Edmund Blunden seems to get less attention than the memoirs of Siegfried Sassoon and Robert Graves, but it is a great book.

I learned that if I had known how much of this Nazi memorabilia there was to collect, I never would have started in the first place. It's crowding me out of my house.

I love to experience a new country's culture and history in a fun and memorable way.

The Holocaust' was the most memorable experience filming because it was important and it wasn't entertainment. It was history. It was unbearably real at times. You forgot it was a film.

I'm not a historian who thinks Confederate memorials should be boarded up.

We are the first to honour the memories of those who perished through slavery, by declaring August 1 as Emancipation Day.

We have to remember, Mourinho worked at Barcelona. He has good memories of Barcelona. The club did well when he was here.

No one ever sits you down at age eight and says, 'Aminatta, this is what's happened so far.' You have to work it out for yourself, and by the time you do, it's ancient history to many of the players. We're trying to make sense of the past, so we start to excavate our memories.

I have so many great memories of the Allman Brothers early days. It was an incredible time.

As long as I have fashion memories, Schiaparelli has been there.

Most national holidays in most countries rest on selective memories of the past.

Memory is more indelible than ink.

Memory is the fourth dimension to any landscape.

A Church which has lost its memory is in a sad state of senility.