Quotes About History

I think with 'Hamilton,' Lin-Manuel has really blown up the whole casting idea. It's miraculous. You look at '1776,' it's a bunch of old white guys and old white chicks. You look at 'Hamilton,' and it's just the faces of America.

The civil rights movement was not a mirage... It was live and in living color.

No history can be a faithful mirror. If it were, it would be as long and as dull as life itself. It must be a selection, and, being a selection, must inevitably be biased.

The story of 'Mirror Mirror' is in many ways a story about evolution. It's about the evolution of a child into an adult. It's about the evolution of those dwarves into something a little less rock-like, a little more humanoid. It's about the evolution of history, too, from the darkness of the Middle Ages into the light of the Age of Reason.

Period pieces hold up a mirror to the world that we live in.

In the same proportion Russia is the misfortune of Europe and the Israelites.

Well, for me, really, I think it was I wanted to try and clear up some of the misperceptions that were out there and fill in some of the historical gaps.

I believe in blues, and I believe that it's been misrepresented.

They say if you remember the '60s, you weren't there. Well I remember the '60s, I was there and I wouldn't have missed it for the world.

Middle East history is replete with examples of missed and lost chances to make peace.

All in all, I would not have missed this century for the world.

I was born in '74, so I missed out on all the great early '60s and early '70s.

I missed that question on Alaska. I hear they want to make it a state now.

I think I was born in the right era. But I missed out on some great music.

I did not grow up in the 70s but in the 80s in the Bay Area, the child of hippies in Berkeley, so I felt connected to the place and the legendary things that had come before me historically that I'd missed.

Which I would've done 'cause I volunteered for the draft which meant that I only had to do two years. But when the Cubans had missiles in the Canal and Kennedy made the extension, I was one of the ones who had enough time to be extended.

Black history is a series of missing chapters from British history. I'm trying to put those bits back in.

The Foxhall jaw has now been missing for many years.

What I'm concerned with is what I would call the missing history - the invisible imprint of our stay on Earth and in time.

'The Missing Picture' is about my story and my parents. Before this film, I never said 'I' in a film, so it is very personal.

With COBE, we can see things before the lights came on. While we probably will not rewrite the book of cosmology with this mission, we will write another chapter.

I would like to pass into history as the man of the economic miracle of Angola... That's my mission.

This is said to us, even as this counterfeit president has legalized the Confederate Flag in Mississippi.

It is a great honor to serve Mississippi as its first female United States Senator.