Quotes About History

Jerry Orbach was the first person to take me to the Friars Club. It's a beautiful building, and you walk into these halls of comedic history and meet these old cats who could tell you a million stories about how things went down in New York City.

I was born in New York City in 1926, four years after my parents and my brother migrated to the United States from the city of Odessa in Russia.

I obviously spent a lot of time in New York City, and I loved it, but Chicago has a very different history than New York City does.

You can't understand what happened to Michael Brown in Ferguson, you can't understand what happened to Eric Garner in New York City, without understanding this narrative of racial difference that was created during the slave years.

Chicago is like a New York City. It's one of the those older cities. It really means something to fight there.

New York City belongs to the people that was here and made New York City what it is.

I don't want my son to have to collect a bunch of 'New York Times' articles to see what I was like.

I think Newark has been in the crosshairs in every generation of the fight to achieve America. And I think Newark is a city that's at that crossroads still.

I did art history and English literature at Newcastle.

I remember my last game for Newcastle in the pre-season, when their fans were singing that they wanted me to stay, but when the opportunity came to play for a great club like Liverpool with such a great history, I had to take it. I hope they understand why I made that choice to go to Liverpool.

Newcastle has a massive fan base and a great history so it is amazing to be here.

I worked for CBS News in the aftermath of all the greatness. I actually brought coffee to Edward R. Murrow.

I was shocked when I would read a newspaper from that time, and the Freedom March wasn't even mentioned.

None of the black abolitionist newspapers, the first of which appeared in 1827, was in existence after the Civil War.

I'm so concerned with morgues and libraries of the newspapers.

Cities are about juxtaposition. In Florence, classical buildings sit against medieval buildings. It's that contrast we like. In Bordeaux, we built law courts right next door to what is effectively a listed historic building, and that makes it exciting.

No one will ever be able to say what the comandantes would have done with their historic opportunity in Nicaragua if they had not been confronted with civil war.

There's definitely an interest in Scotland and what happened here. I think the rest of the world are fascinated by our history, and it's nice to be able to bring Scotland and our culture and music to the screen.

I must say that it's easy to write nice things about Chicago because it's that kind of town.

I think Nick Saban is the greatest college football coach in history over there in Tuscaloosa.

I came from Brooklyn. My nickname was Moochie.

I used to have hair so long, my nickname was Pocahontas.

No one knows exactly when I got the nickname Doro, but I've been called that as long as anyone can remember.

When you look at a lot of the military histories, and even modern military history, everyone pretty much refers to each other by nicknames.