Quotes About History

Part of my heritage being Korean, it's going to be interesting going to Korea and answering these questions dealing with North and South Korea.

North Korea and South Korea speak the same language, and actually, we are the same country.

Being a son of the South puts you in a different position when it comes to the Confederate flag. It means something entirely different to the people who have ancestors who fought in the Civil War on the south side of the Mason-Dixon line.

History shows that you can't - you can't have security in Southeast Asia without security in Northeast Asia. It's just the reality.

I was in the invasion of Normandy in southern France.

The southern colonists were not preoccupied with their own historical significance and mostly did not bother even to make the records of births, marriages, and deaths that they required of themselves by law. Nor did they write accounts of what they were up to for the benefit of posterity.

My family is Southern. I'm used to Bill Clintons.

I think it is very ironic that most people think that the banjo is a southern white instrument. It came from Africa and even for the first years that white people played banjo they would put on blackface.

I concentrate on the southern African subcontinent.

Anything to do with the South resonates with me, because I'm Southern.

It's not a common thing for a Southern white family to go out and seek their black cousins.

For most of American history, of course, the important religious divides were between denominations - not just between Protestants and Catholics and Jews but between Lutherans and Episcopalians and Southern Baptists and the other endlessly fine-tuned sects.

Southern Gothic is alive and well. It's not just a genre, it is a way of life.

The earliest known writing probably emerged in southern Mesopotamia around 5,000 years ago, but for most of recorded history, reading and writing remained among the most elite human activities: the province of monarchs, priests and nobles who reserved for themselves the privilege of lasting words.

There's something about Southern characters.

I think what the public knows as 'Southern rock' will never be repeated.

Southern Republicans are guided by the Bible. Western Republicans read the Constitution. Seen in historical terms, it's the difference between a movement descended from George Wallace and one that harks back to Barry Goldwater.

I'm descended from southern slaves, and I'm descended on my mother's side from northern European Protestant immigrants.

Growing up black in America, and with Southern roots in my family, I was informed in my own life.

You may have Leftist ideologies, southern Punjab always had a leftist ideology.

The secession of the Southern States, individually or in the aggregate, was the certain consequence of Mr. Lincoln's election.

In 1775, no fewer than nine colonies had established churches, ranging from Congregational establishments in New Hampshire, Connecticut and Massachusetts to Episcopal churches in the southern states from Maryland on down.

The people of the Southern States now own near five millions of these negroes, and they are worth to them near three millions of dollars.

My father served as an Army doctor in West Germany in the late '50s and early '60s. As a result, he and my mother - both native southerners - were acutely aware of what had happened during the Holocaust.