Quotes About History

The myth that everyone once read great literature is just a myth.

I wanted to think about our creation myth; you know, what is the fundamental story that defines America. And it certainly is the West.

Let's be clear: there was no golden age of journalism. The media has always been bad. And instead of improving, it spent a lot of time and energy making up its own myth.

The idea of sacrifice is integral to the John Henry myth. Heroic figures have to die in order for us to have our stories; we live and stand on their bones.

Mythology and history are my passion. I grew up in a religious family and learnt about our scriptures and philosophies. It's the language I'm comfortable with.

If you've worked in a company for a long time, there's a mythology that you know by heart, you don't need to look it up to evoke. It's there in your blood, as it were.

II know a little about Greek mythology. It's not that far away from the Nordic mythology.

I know a little about Greek mythology. It's not that far away from the Nordic mythology.

Even befor doing this film, I've always been interested in mythology.

A culture without mythology is not really a civilisation.

When I was In high school, I became interested in Greek mythology. I had to know all about the exact dates of all the history.

Fact-checking can wreak havoc on Chinese political mythology.

Both mythology and history interest me.

American myths have never been colorless.

All great political families have myths: stories they tell themselves about how history happened.

Mythology works... because Indians have been bred on myths.

If historians don't tell stories at the scales of creation myths, someone else will.

It's the historian's job not to ridicule the myths, but to show the difference between myth and reality.

I don't really know football from the Seventies and Eighties. It's all myths and legends to me.

Nagasaki is not just an international city with a long and fascinating history. It is a global inspiration for all those who seek to create a safer and more secure world.

In close-nailed furniture, if the nails used are identical they have been manufactured industrially, which implies a date after 1850.

There is this way that I felt when I was younger that we were beyond history and we were all citizens of the world that now seems so naive.

I must be the only actress in history who has been asked to be naked for untitillating reasons.

My father's family can be traced back to 1400. I've been told by gypsies that there is unmistakeably gypsy blood in me. Lee is a gypsy name, you know.