Quotes About History

Football, like boxing, will never go away, just occupy a different role in the American zeitgeist.

I think that whenever a nation feels itself to be at is zenith, it starts to feel a creeping sense of anxiety.

The Yardbirds folded in 1968, and within a handful of months, Led Zeppelin was not only a band but also a very successful one.

People that love this form of music have loved it from way back - Sabbath, Zeppelin, the early days.

I believe that the Rolling Stones and Led Zeppelin are two of the greatest rock bands ever!

The concept of zero is attributed to the Hindus. The Hindus were also the first to use zero in the way it is used today.

Few times in history do totalitarian or authoritarian regimes successfully repress their people for more than two generations, and zero times in history do these regimes last much longer than that, relatively speaking.

I have a particular affection for zero because it was some of my countrymen who first gave it the status of a number.

I am not very responsible economically. I have a history working on films for years and years, and by the time I was starting the next film, I was starting from zero again.

Some of the worst selfies I've ever seen are at Auschwitz or Ground Zero.

I was very good at history, often scoring 99 out of 100, whereas in mathematics, I usually scored zero.

I do know that throughout history, all paper money has eventually come back to its true value, which is zero.

Very few societies on Earth developed science as we know it today. On the other hand, the number is not zero - the Greeks, the Chinese, and the Maya did, among others. Once invented, science proved so useful that it spread like mold on a petri dish.

If you go back to the '50s and '60s... there was zero tech in S.F. It was all in the Valley... and it crept northward in early 2000s.

I am certain that my family - my grandmother, mother and myself - had a credit score of zero when we arrived in 1976. There were no credit cards in the Soviet Union, and we didn't have any money.

You know, women not making dollar for dollar the same as a man is not new. It's been that way since day zero, since the founding of this country. And when you put African-American women and Hispanic women into the mix it's even worse than that.

From the Green Mountain boys who joined the fight for independence; to a war that saved the Union, and two wars that would encircle the world; to Korea and Vietnam and the Middle East, and our F-16s defending the skies above Ground Zero on September 11, 2001; Vermonters have always answered our nation's call.

I guess you could say I'm lucky because I've known a Zimbabwe that didn't have Robert Mugabe leading it. One of the saddest things about Zimbabwe is there are so many hidden casualties of the Mugabe government's misrule. They're not just casualties that you immediately see.

Zimbabwe is an unusual case study in African colonialism in that it was invaded by a private company under Royal Charter.

We moved to Zimbabwe when I was five, some years after Zimbabwe had gained independence.

The painful truth may be that Zimbabwe, the youngest of Africa's former colonies, has simply followed where the continent has led, treading the well-worn path beaten out of the lie that taking power from the colonialists and delivering democracy to the people are one and the same.

On April 18, 1980, the last outpost of empire in Africa died. From Rhodesia's ashes rose a country that would take its place among the free nations as Zimbabwe, the last among equals. And men and women leapt to embrace this dream called Zimbabwe.

I have probably become a lot more Zionist than I used to be. Jews have a history of being persecuted over a long, long period of time so I think it is absolutely right to have a country that is a Jewish state.

I was not raised a Zionist, but a socialist, as were most Jews before the Holocaust.