Quotes About History

We didn't used to be so precious about women in comedy back in the old days.

The one charm about the past is that it is the past. But women never know when the curtain has fallen.

The world's always been run by women.

For quite some time, women at NASA only had scientific backgrounds.

Cleopatra stood at one of the most dangerous intersections in history; that of women and power. Clever women, Euripides had warned hundreds of years earlier, were dangerous.

Almost all the voices in history have been men, but on this one question of gender, men don't talk about it. This has nothing to do with women; it has to do with men.

There is nothing like playing at Wimbledon; you can feel the footprints of the legends of the game-men and women-that have graced those courts.

Except in this ignorant and material century, men have always worn precious stuffs and beautiful colours as well as women.

All Mongol women are born to the horse and the bow.

Man is the master of Woman" - this statement may have been a glorious fact of primitive life in the wild, but it is nothing but an obnoxious stain on psyche of the thinking humanity.

Women's history is the primary tool for women's emancipation.

Without women, humanity will be history.

If women are so smart, how come hardly any philosophers have been, and now are, female?

As long as there have been women." Mom told me, "there have been ways to punish them for being women.

Women who live their lives according to the suffocating religious rules created by men represent one of the saddest tragedies of the whole human history!

Looking at my life through the lens of history has made me increasingly grateful to standout women who pushed those boundaries to make the changes from which I have benefited.

Many of America's historical cornbreads were staple breads for people who didn't have many other options.

Unless you're of a certain age, you may not know my name, but you can Google it - I was a pretty big movie star in the 1950s. Oh, and another thing: I was - am - gay.

All of us '60s pop stars came from old cities which had a jazz club, a folk club, a coffee house, and an art school.

I've been watching 'Pawn Stars' every week for the last year. I like learning about the history behind the items that people bring into the pawnshop. I actually pawned a ring once that a woman sent to me while I was on 'Jerry Springer.' It was really gaudy.

There was a period of time when they estimated the two biggest stars in Hollywood were Charlie Chaplin and Mickey Mouse.

Amsterdam lives and breathes creativity. One moment you walk into a building from the 17th century, and the next you find yourself in a hub of creative start-up companies.

There's a historical view that adding process into a scrappy start-up kills innovation, but I'm a firm believer that you need process at some point to remain agile.

The best thing about getting older is knowing history. The longer you live, the longer you have been in a sport, the more you know, and the more you know where things started.