Quotes About History

I am aiming high. I want to achieve a lot here, make history here, and make a name for myself at Everton.

My name at birth was Carol Joan Klein. It would take me five decades to appreciate my surname and the history that came with it. Along the way, I would add an 'e' to Carol and acquire several more surnames.

My name is Natasha Trethewey, and I was born in Gulfport, Mississippi, in 1966, exactly 100 years to the day that Mississippi celebrated the first Confederate Memorial Day, April 26, 1866.

I've always been aware that to be named after someone from the past carries with it all kinds of bittersweetness.

My dad named me after Hannibal Barca, the Carthaginian general who attacked Rome. But nobody knows about him.

I'm the only person of distinction who has ever had a depression named for him.

The ship was named the Bounty: I was appointed to command her on the 16th of August 1787.

Someone named Gold has never won gold, I'm told.

My parents gave me a Mexican name. In our culture, we are named after the events of the day.

I'm proud I was first to be named World Player of the Year, in 1991.

Common folk didn't have last names in the 8th and 9th centuries.

Back then, everyone was Lana and Rock. No one had ethnic names.

Biblical names are hot again.

I'm not just looking to be famous and attach myself to famous names. I want to make history in the business in terms of creativity.

Celtic and Ajax are great names in history. They both have great followings all over the world, not just in Holland and Scotland.

I thought I had joined one of the best clubs in the world, one of the biggest names around, and I had, though within a few years, it became clear that I had arrived at one of the worst moments in Liverpool's whole history.

If you look at the history of the NBA, guys that came out of high school are the guys that held the NBA together. You look a Kobe Bryant, you look at a LeBron, these are household names.

Ultimately, the naming of buildings is not a mechanism by which history is kept alive. It is a mechanism by which the rich and the powerful are honoured.

I have read loads of books on Napoleon. For him to come from nothing and then lead his country, that fascinated me. It doesn't matter what you think of him. He did it.

I once read that there are more biographical works about Napoleon Bonaparte than any other man in history.

It's sad to me that the main stage of history is a story of how we became this visually obsessed, extremely narcissistic, extremely concerned about image, culture. At least in the West.

The great evil of American slavery was involuntary servitude or forced labor. I really believe that the true evil of American slavery was the narrative of racial difference that we created to justify it.

Every work of history is a combination of argument and narrative. The longer I write, the more I emphasize the narrative, the story, and the less attention I give to the argument. Arguments come and go.

As an author of narrative history, I read a lot of history books.