Quotes About History

A period film is a gift for a cinematographer.

A culture, we all know, is made by its cities.

Charleston is one of the best built, handsomest, and most agreeable cities that I have ever seen.

I've been fortunate enough to travel to Edinburgh a few times over the last few years, and I just loved the city. I find it one of the more beautiful cities in Europe.

Birthright citizenship in America is part of something larger: The American longing to sever from history, to be a place of new beginnings.

Lucknow's architecture is a part of life in the city.

I've always had sort of an interest in American history, full stop, and especially people who contributed to the civil rights struggle.

When you live in the South, you're constantly part of the civil rights movement.

In the 1960s, the civil rights movement was about getting to know your culture, your history. I know all about my history.

In college, I was so blessed to have relationships with those who did the civil rights movement.

I was born after the Civil Rights Movement.

I would want to go back to the civil rights movement and see how that was. With the information and knowledge I have about it now, I would want to see how I would deal with it.

I was a child coming up in the aftermath of the Civil Rights Movement.

My family has served the country in almost every major war since the Civil War.

At the time of the Civil War, there were six democracies in the face of the planet. Today, there's 120 and they've been inspired by the American exceptionalism.

It's important to remember that the Jacobite Risings of the 18th century constituted a religious civil war, not a nationalistic movement.

The question of what actually caused the Civil War is secondary to the result of the Civil War, which is that after the war was over, slavery was ended, and the North and the South reconciled. And I think we need to respect that.

I was born in the middle of Lebanon's civil war.

During the late 1970s and early 1980s, Latin America moved decisively away from military rule and toward civilian democracy.

One person's barbarity is another person's civilisation.

If you ask me what is civilisation, it's little more than an act of faith.

From first to last the civilization of America has been bound up with its physical environment.

Africa has a time-honored and brilliant civilization.

Paper is at the center of so many of the elements of the development of civilization.