Quotes About History

Since the attack on the United States on September 11 2001, and the US retaliation in Afghanistan and Iraq, there must be few people who have not felt a twinge of nostalgia for the cold war.

I knew I wanted to do a show on NBC - it's rooted in its history; it's part rooted in nostalgia and part rooted in the potential of it. For me, there was no other choice.

Part of the failing of mainstream history has been a reverential air often appended to the colonial era, underpinned by a rose-tinted nostalgia for a lost empire.

For me, Lancome was more than just a brand. There was something very nostalgic about the name, about the whole story.

From the very beginning, history wasn't content simply to be nostalgic fairytales; it wanted to make you think.

In time, foods such as hamburgers and ice cream became more than just meals. They became part of American history and culture, touchstones that are almost immediately nostalgic and sentimental no matter how old you are or what part of the country you are from.

If anyone looks back to the '70s, '80s with nostalgic rosy colored glasses and goes, 'Well, everything was awesome.' No, everything was not awesome!

I think of music as creating a space. I like to put things in that are comforting to me and are nostalgic. To me, that's what sampling does in songs; it's making deeper layers for people who know where it comes from, but also referencing another part of my history and my memory or a memory that I have.

Even Gerd Muller, the top scorer in our nation's history, was not perfect.

America is not perfect. It took a bloody civil war to free over 4 million African Americans who lived enslaved. It took another hundred years after that before they achieved full equality under the law.

When we say Tamil, we are not talking of a language but an entire civilisation.

There aren't very many notable Native American female figures historically. That's the way that it's been. Pocahontas and Sacajawea.

I feel like I have a legacy that I've built. I feel like I've made my little notch in history.

Newt Gingrich seldom misses a chance to note that he is a historian.

And by the way, I wanted to point out that Kindred is not science fiction. You'll note there's no science in it. It's a kind of grim fantasy.

Whatever can be noted historically can be found within history.

In America, Jefferson noted with approval, women knew their place.

In my stunted career as a scholar, I'd read promissory notes, papal bulls and guidelines for Inquisitorial interrogation. Dante, too. Boccaccio... But after 1400? Nihil.

Black youth, in general, have no understanding of our past. Young black people who don't know who Martin Luther King Jr. was, don't know nothin'.

The Holocaust is - there's nothing comparable to it.

Nothing wrong with retouching - nothing new about retouching.

The sad fact is that horrendous human conflict is nothing new.

I see people as haunted by the selves they don't know... I don't have children, but I have nieces and nephews, and one thing I notice is how fascinated they are by stories of their lives before they can remember.

I come from a community that has a lot of white kids, and I notice how, a lot of times, they don't understand our differences and how I come from a different culture and my ancestors are different and my history is different.