Quotes About History

Pawn shops have been around for thousands of years - they were the number one form of consumer credit up until the 1950s, but we were vilified by Hollywood. We were easy people to vilify.

Villa Grande has in many ways symbolized an important, but less than pleasant, part of our history.

I've said it for a long time that Aston Villa is a special club.

Everyone knows me from my time at Arsenal. No-one really remembers me at Boro or Villa.

Villa's history doesn't frighten me. Not at all. I respect it. I actually embrace it, because I've been through it. I know how difficult it is to win the European Cup.

Culture survives in smaller spaces - not in the history books that erect monuments to the nation's grand history but in cafes and cinema houses, village squares, and half-forgotten libraries.

This is going to make me sound ancient, but I remember Juhu Beach when there weren't any buildings on it. You'd go through countryside and arrive at this amazing beach. I remember driving from Delhi to the Qutab Minar through countryside. Mehrauli was a little village - that's all gone.

The destruction of India's village system was the greatest of England's blunders.

I love the East Village.

Our village was built on the Ohio River, and was a halting place on this great national road, then the only avenue of traffic between the South and the North.

Scotland's relationship with Malawi is perhaps unique - with almost every town or village in Scotland having some connection.

Hong Kong never had prestige. It's gone from fishing village to where it is today.

If you look at history of athletics in the country almost all champions have hailed from the villages.

In the villages in Europe, there are still healers who tell stories.

My ancestors come from a part of southern China where most villages can trace their roots back at least a thousand years or even more. However, as a typical American, I have lived in four cities and moved at least seven times.

You could be a victim, you could be a hero, you could be a villain, or you could be a fugitive. But you could not just stand by. If you were in Europe between 1933 and 1945, you had to be something.

What makes a good villain is someone who doesn't just challenge the hero but comes organically out of that character's history and circumstances.

This country-right-or-wrong business is getting a little out-of-date.. History is moving pretty quickly these days and the heroes and villains keep on changing parts.

I think bald guys have been notoriously cast as villains throughout history.

The villains will come along. There were plenty in the Carter administration, and there will be plenty with Reagan.

History will tell where I stand in the ranks of Bond villains, I have no control over that.

The Congress is very vindictive, and they've proved it time and again.

Today, for the first time in history, a Bishop of Rome sets foot on English soil. This fair land, once a distant outpost of the pagan world, has become, through the preaching of the Gospel, a beloved and gifted portion of Christ's vineyard.

One of the things that attracts me to vintage and antique things is they have stories, and even if I don't know the stories, I make them up.