Quotes About History

If you go to the part of Nigeria I'm from, people will say 'why is colonialism my concern?'

I'd always been interested in Nigeria's past.

I am one year older than Nigeria at 51. In a human life, 51 might be old. But it is very young for a nation. By that, I mean a Nigeria conscious of itself as a nation.

I'm still very interested in the things that happened in the '80s and the '70s because I think that they were very important years for Nigeria. In the '80s, we were under a military dictatorship for quite a while, and I think that the way we engage with our country as citizens was shaped in many ways by the events that took place in that time.

I think the FA Cup has great memories and I think there have been Nigerian legends that have played in it as well, like Jay-Jay Okocha and Nwankwo Kanu. They've played in it, so it's a great thing to play in the FA Cup.

If Confucius wasn't born, the long night would have no bright lamp.

Algeria keeps me awake at night. What about you?

History... is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.

Although I was raised in Canada and the U.K., my roots are in Egypt through my father, in a family line that stretches back generations and runs along the Nile, from the concrete of Cairo to the coast of Alexandria.

By the age of nine or ten, I knew that I loved history and writing. It got hold of me and never turned loose.

I feel very much at home in the early nineteenth century and am not inclined to leave it.

Italian football in the eighties and nineties was the most beautiful league in the world. The hardest, most beautiful of all.

When we were making games in the early '90s for the Super Nintendo and the Sega Genesis, popular games didn't have any real story.

I've been with the group since 1965. I will be beginning my fifth year on April ninth this year.

I read a lot of nineteenth-century French poetry. And Irish poetry from the ninth century on.

Even when they don't know who Nixon was, these shows will continue to play.

I met Gerald Ford. I met Richard Nixon. I met Jimmy Carter. I met Dwight Eisenhower when he was a general. George Bush senior. I haven't met Bill Clinton or George W. Bush, although I got a letter from him.

What would McCarthy, what would Nixon, what would Bill Clinton have done if they'd had Twitter?

Only Nixon could have gone to China. Anyone else would have been criticised from the Right.

For us, when we think about the Middle Ages, it's sort of this rarefied, distant time that we have no connection to, especially if you grew up in America.

I should like to underline: no people, no country, in which a Communist dictatorship has been established, ever found its way out of it.

I have no desire to go through the emancipation of women and homosexuals all over again.

I have no doubt that LeBron James would've loved to have played against Michael Jordan, but that simply is not going to happen.

All empires come to an end, and the American one is no exception.