Quotes About History

If you live on Nantucket, you can't avoid its history, and 'Moby Dick' is the way most of us get into Nantucket's history.

I was still in college when 'To Kill a Mockingbird' came out in 1960. I remember it had a kind of an electrifying effect on this country; this was a time when there were a lot of good books coming out.

In 1974, the modeling world changed. Jerry Ford and my lawyer negotiated the deal for the first exclusive contract in modeling history.

Historically, there has been a gap between single-purpose racecars and street-legal models - commonly called supercars - that emulate the real racers on the road.

In my day, there were 20 models in all of India, three of whom were male. One of whom was me.

I come from a democratic world. My world is moderate Democrats, Reagan-type Democrats if you want, the blues or whatever you call them, the Blue Dogs. That's been my world, historically.

The history of the modern Republican Party is the story of moderates being driven out and conservatives taking over - and then of those conservatives in turn being ousted by those even further to the right.

London is a modern Babylon.

It would be exciting to take part in what we now call the Enlightenment at the end of the 18th century, but with modern dentistry.

Since Charles Dolan founded Cablevision in 1973, the Dolan family has been honored to help shepherd our customers and employees through the most extraordinary communications revolution in modern history.

No one in the modern history of this country, no president, has done more to move toward a balanced budget than has President Bill Clinton.

I'm really interested in modern history, but to fulfill a History degree at Brown you have to do modern and pre-modern.

I think that Liverpool's particular modern history lends itself to the cinema better than London in many ways. When you go to Liverpool, you absorb that whole sound and humour.

I think of science fiction as being part of the great river of imaginative fiction that has flowed through English literature, probably for 400 or 500 years, well predating modern science.

We have a history in country music of writing about the darker side of things - maybe not as much in modern times, but there's a lot of cheating and self-deprecation. We sort it out in song, in country music, as a genre.

People tend to view history as if it were another planet and think the modern world was invented in 1963. I don't agree.

Contemporary architects tend to impose modernity on something. There is a certain concern for history, but it's not very deep.

You're molded by the period you were brought up in.

I aimed at the Archduke. I do not remember what I thought at that moment.

The American story is a story of great moments and dreadful moments.

I have a lot of those 'Forrest Gump,' I-was-there moments.

Yes, there have been women in comedy. Moms Mabley was one of the earliest. She was an African American comedian; she often dressed up as an older, disheveled woman.

Elizabeth I was my favourite monarch though, what an inspiration, she did great things for women.

The centuries-old habit of privileging the male heir arose because monarchs were supposed to lead their country in battle, and only men were thought strong enough to do so.