Quotes About History

If people really want to know and learn from history, why do they want bad history? Why don't they want good history? Wouldn't you rather know the truth, rather than the legend?

Legends are all to do with the past and nothing to do with the present.

You don't create legends out of other legends.

When people of color and their allies say today that Black Lives Matter, the nation must hear and see it through the lens of all that has come before and understand that they speak truth.

There have been lots of attempts to make a movie of 'Les Miserables' over the years.

I think you can always learn lessons by the guys who came before you.

I believe that nothing is more important to our ability to effectively address our present than understanding the lessons learned from those who have come before us.

It wasn't that long ago that I was coming up, but it feels almost ancient that you had to go to the library and you had 'World Book Encyclopedias.'

It may be that the books that were best liked in your lifetime are not the ones that are best liked 100 years later.

In the course of my lifetime, that world went from violence to a kind of peace.

I always believed there would be an African-American president. It was something I'd dreamed about, thought about, but certainly did not believe would happen in my lifetime.

I went up a weight class and took off the head of the greatest lightweight in history.

My parents are more likely to know who Franz Liszt is than Snooki.

The name of Abraham Lincoln is imperishable.

We believe slavery was abolished with Abraham Lincoln; unfortunately, human slavery is alive and well.

You can learn more about leadership by reading about Lincoln than you can from most business books.

If you were to do a line-up of past suitors, it's definitely a very eclectic group, is all I'll say.

Princess Michael of Kent

I like the fact that I come with a lineage and have a filmi background.

I keep a list of everyone I've ever met.

It's a big accomplishment to be among those big names on those all-time lists of great players who played for the Magic.

From the beginning of church history, music, writing, literature, and the greatest works of art all came from the church. To change the culture and make it a force for good, you have to be in it and be a part of it.

Lenin lived, Lenin lives, Lenin will live.

I used to live in Ethiopia as a child, and I lived there when Haile Selassie was the emperor.