Quotes About History

Like any group that has endured much, African Americans have created a strong and mutually reinforcing sense of group identity. That's not a bad thing in and of itself.

Israel and the United States have been locked in a mutually necessary and beneficial intelligence-sharing relationship for more than 60 years.

Donald Trump was my friend for 15 years.

Eighteen years doing this, my friend. Eighteen years - combat sport. I think you will not find this in history, I believe.

And my generation in Brazil was influenced by Cinema Novo. So we're echoing what's been done way in the past.

I cannot let Justin Trudeau do to my children what his father did to my generation.

I know that my great-grandfather - George Rich - was born in Cape Town in 1866 and it set my journey off to go to Cape Town to discover and find out more.

I don't compete with other discus throwers. I compete with my own history.

I'm a historian in my own mind.

You can only be the best of your time. I was the best of my time.

But if I had to choose a single destination where I'd be held captive for the rest of my time in New York, I'd choose the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

I don't deny the importance of genetics. However, the fact that I might be altruistic isn't because I have a gene for altruism; the fact that I do something for my children at some cost to myself comes from a history that has operated on me.

I call myself a gorgeous anachronism.

The Cro-Magnons lived with fear and amazement in a culture of Arrival, facing many mysteries. Their culture lasted for some 20,000 years.

Shipwrecks are incredible mysteries.

China, hidden and mysterious, has always interested me.

The Iron Curtain may be a thing of the past, but Mother Russia is as mysterious as ever.

Creativity is not a mysterious thing, it's a historical thing.

It's a mystery to me why everybody doesn't love jazz. I've never been able to figure that out.

The belief that we can be done with our past is a myth.

Myth is sometimes more important than history.

Mexico was conquered more by manipulation of myth and archetype.

In our family, as far as we are concerned, we were born and what happened before that is myth.

Plato wove historical fact into literary myth.