Quotes About History

I think you can't have the monarchy without the coronation. I think you would have to get rid of the whole kit and caboodle.

I respect the British a lot - their history, their past, their culture. I think it's beautiful, what they have with the monarchy.

The monarchy is finished. It was finished a while ago, but they're still making the corpses dance.

I always thought if I was born 2000 years earlier, I would be a monk, probably carving a monastery or some giant pantheon buildings.

The United States was born with an imperialist impulse. There has been a long confrontation between Monroe and Bolivar... It is necessary that the Monroe Doctrine be broken.

What I said when Otter Creek came up is that we in Montana have a history of giving away our resources. We need to make sure Montana is getting its share.

You're going to relegate my history to a month.

I don't want a Black History Month. Black history is American history.

One of the most revealing details about my parents is that they only got together three months before my dad's arrest.

A monument's dimensions should be determined by the importance to civilization of the events commemorated.

The Taj Mahal is a monument to love in all cultures.

American art ought to be monumental, in keeping with American life.

Monuments are for the living, not the dead.

America has no monuments to ideas; her monuments are erected to individuals.

'Monuments Men' is not a docudrama. It's not a documentary.

Ancient monuments 300 to 1000-plus years old are never 'renovated,' only 'restored,' a distinction that escapes the babus.

In America, we have holidays and monuments that celebrate heroes from our past, most of whom have legacies that are settled.

I was eight years old when I saw the Apollo moon landing in 1969. I was riveted.

We can't understand what we've accomplished on civil rights without telling the story of Bayard Rustin. And now, we must write the next chapter in the American civil rights story by drawing strength and inspiration from his moral courage.

No kingdom has shed more blood than the kingdom of Christ.

American history has fallen more and more into the hands of academics.

More and more of us live segmented, compartmentalized lives. This isn't natural. For millions of years, our forebears knew everyone around them and everyone knew them.

What is amazing to me as an archaeologist is that the more and more I study, I realize we are resilient, we are creative, we are brilliant, and this is what makes us human, and that hasn't changed since we've been human.

I want to get into the educational DNA of American culture. I want 10 percent of the common culture, more or less, to be black.