Quotes About History

Fantasy is the oldest form of literature and science fiction is just a new twist on it.

Maybe that's why I'd been chosen to become the first female Reaper in history. I think the boys had been losing too many souls.

My answer to the racial problem in America is to not deal with it at all. The founding fathers dealt with it when they made the Constitution.

Our fathers were Englishmen which came over this great ocean, and were ready to perish in this wilderness.

Your former Fathers the Spaniards have now no further Authority over you.

I grew up in Minnesota. Four generations of my father's people are buried there.

I knew your father before you did, and I don't think he'd be too proud of what you're doing right now.

Father I cannot tell a lie. I did it with my little hatchet.

My father didn't know his real name. My father got his name from his grandfather and he got his name from his grandfather and he got it from the slave master.

To people who remember JFK's assassination, JFK Jr. will probably always be that boy saluting his father's coffin.

Aeneas carried his aged father on his back from the ruins of Troy and so do we all, whether we like it or not, perhaps even if we have never known them.

You see, my father was a Catholic priest, Greek Orthodox, but I think he started out as a Jew, then he became a Catholic priest.

Hey, our Founding Fathers wore long hair and powdered wigs - I don't see anybody trying to look like them today, either... But we do look to them as role models.

My brother and sister are both older than I am and were born before my father went off to World War I.

My father's people... are from Fairfax in northern Virginia, just across the Mason-Dixon line. So it was an honour to play Lee, he was a great general.

I'm a Progressive. Much in the same way our founding fathers - who, oddly enough, wouldn't get elected today - were Progressives.

I have never seen such extreme partisanship, such bitter partisanship, and such forgetfulness of the fate of our fathers and of the Constitution.

Creeds have been the bane of the Christian church ... made of Christendom a slaughter-house.

If the devil take a less hateful shape to us than to our fathers, he is as busy with us as with them.

My father pulled into Pearl Harbor four days after the bombing, and he said, everything was still burning. He said they never told the public how bad it was. It was really bad.

The son has always felt like he was a footnote in one of the stories the father tells. The father is an amazing storyteller and one of the tales that he tells is how he met his wife.

It's important to learn from the past and people's experiences, not only from my father's [Pablo Escobar] as a drug dealer, but from others that have ended just the way he did.

The Founding Fathers would be sorry to see that America had become so divided and factionalized.

My father comes from a generation of film that actors my age don't even know about, which is really sad.