Quotes About History

I think that's the fascinating thing about the '70s is that it turns out it was quite a dark decade. But, like, who knew?

History turns me on. I was terrible at it at in school, but as I get older, I get more and more into it.

Boston's such a unique city. I feel like 50 percent of its DNA turns over every semester.

The most famous line in gastronomic history, 'Let them eat cake', turns out to have been an eighteenth-century cliche. According to Antonia Fraser, the French accused every foreign queen of saying it, beginning in 1670 with the wife of Louis XIV, Marie Theresa.

The turntable is now an instrument at the Smithsonian.

First of all, Turtle Island is the name of this continent we live on... that's right, not 'America... as in North America,' but the name given by the first peoples of this land.

'The Green Turtle' was created in the 1940s by a cartoonist named Chu Hing, one of the first Asian Americans to work in the American comic book industry.

I think whatever art form you're in, whether TV, film or theater, you should know the history of who came before you and how the art form has changed or not changed and to learn from the greats.

At the time of Apollo 11, I was a grade-schooler, and I remember every time an Apollo mission would take place that, like a lot of little boys, I'd gather in front of the TV for hours and hours and hours with my little brother.

I love things that have one foot in history - I was going to be a history professor before I sold out and went into TV.

I think 'The X-Files' was a very important moment in TV history.

Not to be pompous about it - my thing in life is to write history and not to chat on TV 24 hours a day.

Theater is an old thing. It's thousands of years old. TV isn't. Film isn't. We're doing a really old thing.

We've known Cyndi Lauper since she was in 'Blue Angel'; we did a TV show with her back in '79 or '80. We don't have any competition; we're complementary.

I love 'Frontline.' It's the best TV show in the history of television.

The actual truth about Gad is it's one of the original 13 tribes of Israel, so you can actually trace my lineage back to, like, those guys who had, like, a hand in the Bible and have since become very famous from that. So I come from very famous lineage. Granted, they didn't have cameras back then, so none of them had TV shows.

The more I learned about real pirates, the more exciting they seemed to me. They appeared to be even more dramatic than pirates of the movies or TV shows.

TV shows about TV were taboo for a while.

Lincoln was the Twain of our politics.

When you study history in American schools, very rarely is the name John Brown mentioned. We know who Kanye West is or Twyla Tharp or Shania Twain.

Mark Twain's Roughing It is a book that many people don't know about, but I highly recommend to anybody at any age.

Students don't know who Mark Twain was because he wasn't on the test.

We're well past the end of the century when time, for the first time, curved, bent, slipped, flash forwarded, and flashed back yet still kept rolling along. We know it all now, with our thoughts traveling at the speed of a tweet, our 140 characters in search of a paragraph. We're post-history. We're post-mystery.

The Obama Doctrine is the first presidential strategy in history that is exclusively about communicating - not implementing - policy. The Obama Doctrine seems to be 'tweet with overwhelming force.'