Quotes About History

You have to know the classics if you want to cook modern food.

Jokes about Crazy Cat Ladies seem harmless enough, but at their core is a disturbing echo of the hysterical witch superstitions of the Middle Age.

The land on which this game is played holds memories for a very long time, and once in a while, it lets us come back and walk around in them.

Well, that day is gone, and it will not occur again.

I certainly think that another Holocaust can happen again. It did already occur; think of Cambodia, Rwanda, and Bosnia.

May it be long before the people of the United States shall cease to take a deep and pervading interest in the Fourth of July, as the birthday of our national life, or the event which then occurred shall be subordinated to any other of our national history.

Events are called inevitable only after they have occurred.

I was 15 when Chernobyl happened, I've been vaguely thinking about it for most of my life. But somewhere around 2015, it occurred to me that I didn't know how it happened, which seemed like a pretty bizarre lapse in my understanding of the world and how it functions.

I've seen many dinosaur fossils, some mounted in museums, others in the process of being extracted from their rocky matrix, and it has never occurred to me that any could be anything other than genuine.

The first time I went to Iraq was October 2002, when Saddam was still in power, and then, subsequently, in January of 2003, about three-and-a-half months before the U.S. invasion. So, I got to see the before and after of Iraq, basically, before and after the war.

In January 1944 I was called up by the Forced Labor Service, but I deserted on October 10, 1944.

Both VisiCalc and MultiPlan were available when the IBM PC shipped in October 1981. 1-2-3 didn't hit the market until January 1983.

Going back to Georgiana Drew and John Drew, and my great-grandfather Maurice Barrymore, and it was such a sort of circus of odd, interesting people that loved acting.

It's odd to say we had our first African American president before our first African-American-owned movie studio, but we're making progress.

The Odyssey is the story of Americans up to the point where they are well-established, and even so it is detached from the historical side.

It doesn't seem to me that anyone has discovered much that's new since the Iliad or the Odyssey.

My wife, Lisa, and I both grew up on wuxia - Chinese historical romances. They're kind of analogous to Western epics. They're based on history, just like 'the Iliad' and 'the Odyssey' are based on history, but they're romanticized, and a lot of fantasy elements have been added.

I think that 'Judaizing the Galilee' is not an offensive term. We used to talk like that.

It's hard for it to make a mark in this city because London has so much culture to offer.

I had this idea that I could hire myself out as a person to go on archeological digs and dig, without any training! I actually wrote to a number of archeology departments and offered up my services.

Blended-reality technology could play in a limited, walled-garden world, but history suggests that it won't really take off until it offers broad freedom of use.

The greatest mistake I made was not to die in office.

Even though I was there through it all, it is hard for me to comprehend that I was growing up with brothers who would eventually occupy the highest offices of our nation, including president of the United States.

We must wait for the official history of the Chinese Revolution to record in greater detail the invaluable work of our Japanese friends.