Quotes About History

Mum and I were delighted to find out we were descended from 'bog-trotters.'

To me, I have my friends who I've known my whole life, and I can count them on one hand. They're people I went to school with, my mum's friends' daughters. You know?

My grandparents divorced, both of them, and then my mum and dad did. So it's like, divorce, divorce, divorce.

Kolkata does not look like a Delhi or Mumbai. The city has its identity.

Two hundred and fifty mummies covered in gold. Something like this cannot be explained - mummy after mummy covered in shining gold.

Bayern Munich is an attractive club because it has been successful for many decades.

I'm really kind of a little bit romantic for the lost era. There's a lot of us that are - kind like James Murphy, same thing - we feel like it's this magic era that happened before us. And it wasn't even necessarily disco.

Slavery, first and foremost, was an energy institution. Shackling human muscle was about getting work done.

To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse.

I love the Museum of the Moving Image, and I like the idea of bringing artifacts of the cinema into a museum.

Everything you write as an artist is about your legacy and your catalog and how you would look in a museum.

My favourite museum is the British Museum.

Late 20th century music was a really important thing. It changed the world, and I'm part of that, and now I'm part of the museum that celebrates that.

I love the Country Music Hall of Fame. I don't think it's just a hall of fame and it's not just a museum. It's a schoolhouse. It's a place where people from all across the world can come and learn about this great genre that we're making a living out of.

The V&A is an amazing museum, and the collections have always been a great inspiration to me.

I want to go to the 9/11 Memorial. I heard that's amazing and crazy to look at, an amazing museum. So I haven't done that. I'd like to do that.

This is the kind of stuff me and my friends talk about. We sit around and drink coffee, and we're really angry: We're like, 'Where's the Latino Museum?' Where can we go with our families, where can we go with our friends to learn about our history?

I wish there was a museum of sorts for legends like Ellis R Dungan and many others who disappear with the turn of page in the book of time.

Well, intellectual importance is directly linked to financial value in the art world. I mean, thats the thing you really want - museum quality. You want to go down in the annals of art history.

I think I was eight the first time I saw the Benin bronzes. I was taken to see them at the British Museum by my white, British mother, who felt it important that her half-Nigerian children learned about the artistic achievements of their forefathers. I've been entranced by them ever since.

Working in a museum has given me a connection to people - to the rest of humanity - that I never had before.

I look back and can't believe it sometimes. I have to go to the Derby Museum to see what I really accomplished.

There are too many war museums.

Kraftwerk has become historic and is now exposed in museums.