Quotes About History

I grew up at Kabir Choura in Varanasi in the 1970s. It was an era when communal riots used to happen every now and then at different places.

For love that time was not as love is nowadays.

It's very scary to me that people actually think we should just follow our leaders. If we can't learn from our history, we're nowhere.

That kind of creaming off the pretty postcard image of the past, I think, is a road to nowhere.

The huge difference in my lifetime is that you can just go up to somebody and make a pass. You couldn't do that in the 1950s if you were gay. There were secret handshakes, a secret language. There was nowhere you could go to be romantic outside of people's houses.

There is nowhere on Earth like Boston for a player.

I did go to the Alamo. Fascinating. A lot of details and nuances to the Alamo that are impressive.

Magna Carta has 63 clauses in abbreviated Latin. Two of them that are still on the statute book, numbers 39 and 40, could be said to have changed the way in which the free world has grown.

History will remember the UPA-II government for its numerous scandals, scams, and corruption, probably the maximum number ever.

I was born in 1970. I was hardly goose-stepping down Nuremberg.

Nursery rhymes were political when they were first written! To me, that's what it's about: it's about using it to say something more than just what the story is.

My nan was a nursery maid. Most people weren't in big houses. They were maids of all work.

When I was born, my mother said all the nurses wanted to come see the colored baby.

We all have to consciously make efforts to identify our roots and nurture them.

I'm a history nut.

Oakland's got a lot of character.

I see myself in competition with Blur and Oasis. But everyone else just sees me as this guy with a history.

None of what Barack Obama is doing or wants to do to this country is anything the rest of the world hasn't seen before and already failed at.

Barack Obama is the worst President in history.

Remember, before they called it Obamacare, they called it Hillarycare.

People love information. Right now in our society, we have an obesity epidemic. Because for the first time in history, we have access to food whenever we want, we don't know how to control ourselves. I think we have the exact same problem with information.

If you see a wonderful archaic Greek marble object in a museum, it's not only that it's beautiful, but what comes to your mind is the fact that it's 2,600 or so years old, and it was done by a human being at that time who you have such a limited ability to grasp - and yet you have this enormous ability to grasp.

I'm a firm believer that no matter how small an object is, you can find interesting things out about it and its history.

I did go through graduate school and I like to do research, to create something that has a certain objective solidity. The same thing influences my fiction to some degree, because, you know, my fiction is often based on history that I've read.