Quotes About History

I study history in order to give an interpretation.

It may be enough to study history in all its nuance and ambiguity for its own sake. But there is no country free of the need to find new ways of reading the past as an inspiring way of thinking about everything else, including the present.

I study history. I study the game. I study the NBA and the team I'm working for very, very closely.

My loves in life are food, history and rugby. I'd love to be a history professor or a rugby player but I prefer rugby and my career would end by the time I was 30, leaving me enough time to go and study history.

I wanted to get the most broad foundation for a lifelong education that I could find, and that was studying Latin and the classics. Meaning Roman and Greek history and philosophy and ancient civilizations.

Just because a company falls doesn't invalidate what we can learn by studying that company when it was at its historical best.

When you go back to the days when I was studying how to paint, some of the things that excited me most was to go into the Huntington Library and Gardens and to see the amazing pictures of the landed gentry.

I'd been in college studying English creative writing and history when I made the decision to join the Marines in the runup to the Iraq war.

I am studying ancient civilizations, trying to find what happened to them, finding out why they went into a decline, why they died.

Half of the modern world goes back as far as Pearl Jam. The real historians go back to U2. But they need to go back further. They have to go back to the '50s and '60s, where things started. That's how you get to be your own personality, by studying the masters. Rock and roll was white kids trying to make black music and failing, gloriously!

The more I started studying the historical Jesus, the man who lived 2,000 years ago... the more I started to realize that there was this chasm between the historical Jesus and the Jesus that I had been taught about in church.

I got interested in palaeontology and vertebrate history - sparked by books on human evolution - then vertebrate evolution. Studying with palaeontologists kindled my interest in fieldwork.

I loved studying the Medieval world; that's why I love 'Game of Thrones.'

When I was studying architecture in the 1970s, it was intellectually bankrupt.

I'm just very obsessed with Japanese stuff in general.

When historians of early America turned from the pursuit of past politics, they devised a category known in the academy as 'social and intellectual history.' In it, they stuffed nearly everything except politics on the assumption, which the anthropologists assured them was correct, that it would all fit together. Somehow it did not.

Charlie Crist has gone through his entire political life with one stump speech - his grandfather polishing shoes.

In fact, when you get right down to it, almost every explanation Man came up with for anything until about 1926 was stupid.

The funny thing about history is that we imagine that people didn't laugh in the old days, but of course they did, at stupid things.

The Clinton paradox: How could a president so intelligent, so compassionate, so public-spirited and so conscious of his place in history act in such a stupid, selfish and self-destructive manner?

I'm a big stupid history nerd.

Racism is endemic to the human condition, just as stupidity is. We will always have to be on guard against it. But now it is recognized as a scourge, as the crowning immorality of our age and our history.

My style is not specific to the antebellum South, but it's heavily inspired by the Jim Crow era.

I've become sort of an accidental advocate for attachment parenting, which is a style of parenting that... basically, the way mammals parent and the way people have parented for pretty much all of human history except the last 200 years or so.