Quotes About History

I've been interested in China ever since I was a kid. When I was a kid, I grew up in San Francisco about a mile from China Beach.

I'd quite like to run the Great Wall of China. I've never been to China and there's something about the Great Wall of China that is so iconic and evocative. It's only 3,000 miles. It's not that far.

I believe that a hundred years from now, when people look back at the 20th century, they will look at Miles, Bird, Clifford Brown, Ella and Dizzy, among elders as our Mozarts, our Chopins, our Bachs and Beethovens.

I didn't grow up during the time that Louis Armstrong or Miles Davis and all those people were playing. So it's not really my responsibility to keep it up, what they were doing.

I went out to the desert where Cleopatra camped out with her mercenary army. It's a desolate outpost. Nothing has changed since her day. You realize how far she had to travel. Not only is it a good 150 miles against the current, you can't take a ship.

My mother is from Compton, California, but my father is from Hayneville, Alabama, and that's less than 20 miles from Selma.

For more than fifty years, Americans and Cubans have been isolated from one another even though Cuba is only 90 miles away from Florida.

Cuba is only 90 miles from Florida, but for a long time, the distance between our two countries seemed a lot greater.

We're not going to let anything get in our way of hitting our milestones and making history and showing the world that Hyperloop works.

Our lives are a series of lowered expectations year after year. We got pounded by everything around us. Just like our parents and their parents. We are products of our social and economic milieu.

Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general.

Laos is the ghost of American military interventions past.

Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip.

Evading military service has a long history in American life.

No one has been buried at Mill Road Cemetery in Cambridge, England, for many years, and so the place has a shady, overgrown magic about it.

We are gladiators of the third millennium and Rome is the cradle of the gladiators.

I remember Mitch Miller saying every week, This rock and roll stuff will never last. But one doesn't like to bring that up to Mitch.

Only one and half million Jews died in the Holocaust.

Twenty-six million Russians died in the defense of their homeland against the Nazis.

During the first 3 years at Auschwitz, 2 million people died; over the next 2 years - 3 million.

There aren't many people in the world that were on television in the history of God's green earth talking to 110 million people.

In the two million years during which we climbed from stone-tool-wielding Homo erectus with sloping brows to high-foreheaded Homo urbanis - man, the inventor of the city - we underwent 60 glaciations, 60 ice ages.

Our saints had said that Earth existed 1.96 million years ago. Earlier, science did not accept this, but later, it had to.

I am the first millionaire in my family.