Quotes About History

I'm old enough to remember seeing James Brown live.

Most Hungarians know what it was to live in a dictatorship; some are old enough to have known both fascism and communism. No one wants to go back to that.

I'm old enough to remember the '70s. The '70s is a different time.

Old friends are best.

Larry Hagman and I are very old friends.

I grew up in a modern home, but my grandmother lived across the street in an old house that was built when churches were illegal in Mexico. She had a chapel in the home, right between the kitchen and dining room.

My aunt Caroline was really a character. She lived and worked in my grandfather's old house and even wore some of his clothes.

If you think I'm a drunk, you shoulda seen my old man.

I love watching old movies, and I read a lot of autobiographies.

Very old music is, like, 11th century in my mind. That's very old.

You can make a new friend but you can't make an old one.

The Kashmir problem is a very old one and has been a major challenge for all governments.

Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.

There's a convention in English stuff that if something is more than 100 years old, people have to say 'do not' instead of 'don't. They have to say 'will not' instead of 'won't.' People are speaking in a way that is not accessible or normal. And people didn't ever speak like that.

We live in a world where racism hasn't changed at all. It's that old thing of, you know, the more things change, the more things remain the same.

I continue to be interested in new things that seem old and old things that seem new.

I am, in fact, enamored by Lucknow with all its minarets and its monuments. It is a place where you can get lost in the old world.

I think that at heart I am an old-fashioned Chinese, really I am.

I tend to write about more than one generation because as a child I had contact with more than one generation; it was normal to be around older people.

The oldest book I have is a treatise on architecture from the 17th century.

The Jewish festival of freedom is the oldest continuously observed religious ritual in the world. Across the centuries, Passover has never lost its power to inspire the imagination of successive generations of Jews with its annually re-enacted drama of slavery and liberation.

I have made all my films for my children with the exception of my first film because my oldest daughter wasn't born when I was making the film about the Brooklyn Bridge.

I finally became a scuba diver at age 15 or so, and a couple of years after that, I attended a dive show that is held every year in Boston. It's the oldest one in the world and it's still going on - it's called the Sea Rovers.

African Americans are one of the oldest ethnic groups in this country. We been here since the beginning. Before the beginning.