Quotes About History

If I were to pick a favorite SummerSlam match of all time, there's one iconic match that comes to mind: SummerSlam 1992, Bret Hart vs. The British Bulldog at Wembley Stadium in front of more than 80,000 people.

I remember all the old catwalks and stuff at County Stadium.

I remember playing at Old Trafford, and the way to the dugout was always nice. It was never like in other stadiums.

The big stadiums, sold-out crowds and games with massive things riding on them; as players these are games you want to be playing in. It's a chance to write your name in the history books.

If you talk about stadiums that everyone knows, the most historic are San Siro and Old Trafford.

It was lucky I came from City; I'd say their philosophy is quite similar. Barcelona are a lot more advanced because they are the ones who created it, but they have a history of members of staff at Manchester City who worked here.

I want to help Leeds United return to the level our history and fans deserve. When I came to the club, I gave myself three years to deliver that and my vision remains the same: return the club to its rightful place in the Premier League and make our fans, players and staff proud of their football team.

The bourgeoisie might blast and ruin its own world before it leaves the stage of history.

I've admired Sivaji Ganesan ever since he staged 'Veerapandiya Kattabomman.'

The very action of the proletariat is a determining factor in history. And although we can no more jump over the stages of historical development than a man can jump over his shadow, nevertheless, we can accelerate or retard that development.

Hiphop hasn't had stages of growth through its 30 years of existence.

I would love for people to look at me as a great singer but also know exactly who I am, the way that we have loved and respected people like Gladys Knight and Patti LaBelle, having gone through the different stages of their lives with them. That's the type of history I want to have.

All great civilizations, in their early stages, are based on success in war.

'The Prince's blunt candor has been a scandal for 500 years. The book was placed on the Papal Index of banned books in 1559, and its author was denounced on the Elizabethan stages of London as the 'Evil Machiavel.' The outrage has not dimmed with time.

Wembley is a ground with great history. It's hosted games and players of great prestige. It's always important playing on great stages like this.

Postwar Europe was morally stagnant, and there was a lot of neo-conservatism.

In Germany, of course, the Holocaust will always be in our history and a big stain on our lives.

For a long period of history, you were what people said about you, and if your reputation was stained, you were in very serious trouble. People fought duels over this. Then it fades away historically.

I remember in '37 when trolley cars were so big in New York. It was five cents for a ride... There used to be open-air buses, and you could go up a spiral staircase and sit up on top. Those were great, great days.

I have always been very into pagan hairstyles. If I were alive a long time ago, I would probably have been burned at the stake.

At times like that it's difficult to remember what's at stake, that history is in the making. As a player you feel so cut off sometimes, it can be tough... Which is why it is an enormous advantage to play at home.

The thing is that my father's story helps to communicate what was at stake with my mother, and my mother and father had so much a partnership that his story is integral to her story, as her story is to his - really, her story can't be told without his story.

In the new Georgia, Stalin is no longer Georgian. He's a Russian emperor.

To make a Frankenstein monster of a complex character like Stalin would have been too simplistic. I wanted to show who he was and, if you like, how he happened.