Quotes About History

The country of Iraq is somewhat of an artificial creation going back to colonial days. And so you have the Kurds and then the Sunnis in the north predominantly and Shias in the south.

Our sport has always had somewhat of a racist label to it.

That is what I love about golf, you can go play somewhere where all the greats have played.

I'd quite like to be in Caligula's court - living in the back room somewhere and just being able to observe.

I don't think there is one president that's come down the line that hasn't done something good somewhere.

One of the few things that can be said for certain about Europe's prehistoric peoples is that they all came from somewhere else.

We all got here from somewhere else going back in our lineage. And I think these gratuitous attacks on Americans who got here recently or whose parents got here recently need to stop.

Like father, like son, four years and this president is done.

My father was the orphaned son of immigrants to the United States from Ireland. My father never knew his parents. His mother died - we're not sure - either at or shortly after his birth, and he and all of his siblings were placed in orphanages in the Boston area.

No nation has a single history, no people a single song.

I'm the last of the song and dance men.

Songs sometimes are so connected to the sociology of the time.

This music has been around since before the beard on Moses. I happed to do it very well and I happen to have a lot of groovy songs that I know people are going to dig. I know more about it than you do.

There are no bridges in folk songs because the peasants died building them.

People have been writing songs and poems since the time we had brains.

I have a history, and I am proud of my legacy as a songwriter, all of the songs that I've brought forth into our culture. I'm proud of that.

Hanson is not the pop band that a lot of people think we are. I think we're a lot more rooted in a lot of music history... we're songwriters, we're singers, we're players first. We're not entertainers, we're not celebrities, and frankly, we don't really want to be.

People in Ireland take in the whole song. After a long history of great singers and songwriters and poets, they are able to consume the entire song - not just the external; they go inside.

Many varieties of sonnet, of course, have been written over the ages.

It is the pride of my heart to have been one of the earliest adopted sons of America.

When I was growing up there was a product made by Sony called the Sony Walkman - a rage, everyone had to have one. Well, you don't hear about the Walkman anymore.

Sony's Walkman far predated the iPod. Nokia ruled smartphones before Apple.

The 'Belize Times' will be back. I can't at this juncture say exactly when it will be back in printed form. As you know, it is presently published online. But this historic newspaper will one day, hopefully soon, rise again.

It was clear soon after his election that Obama, like FDR, wanted to start dealing with the economic crisis immediately after his inauguration.