Quotes About History

I come up in a segregated 1943 atmosphere of segregation.

Rome had Senators too, that's why it declined.

The 'Middle Ages/Dark Ages' were of course no such thing. Achievement in the Arabian crescent was sensational then.

India-Pakistan war and romance have always been sensitive issues for film-makers in both the countries.

Actually I was born in 1940 in Blackpool because my family lived in Manchester but Manchester was being bombed. So my mother was sent away to Blackpool to have me and then went back; so I lived my first eighteen years in Manchester and then emigrated to the States when I was eighteen.

Growing up as an Asian American, we're lucky to have two sentences in a history book about the Chinese-American experience.

Music is part of history, and our history has lessons that cannot be separated from our greatest music.

The days that Israel was separated from Europe are gone.

I was born on September 27, 1918, the second of five children.

When people ask me where I am from I never say, 'Serbia.' I always say, 'I come from a country that no longer exists.'

Bhutan is a very serene country with an incredible history. It has an incredible group of great artisans.

I come from a family of servants. My father's father was a servant, and my father's father's father was a slave.

My father served in the Royal Scots Fusiliers for many years.

Women are taking the main stage. They are center stage, and they're setting all these records and making history, and I want I be a part of that. I've worked so hard to be a part of that.

I am a Malayali. My ancestors are from Tamil Nadu, but they settled in Irinjalakuda.

There is nothing wrong with the name White Settlement, and the majority here is proud of the name.

Blacks had a huge role in settling the West, but you'd never know it from Western movies.

The first election I remember was Dewey Truman in '48. I was, I guess, seven years old.

I've run the marathon several times, so I definitely don't look like the Great Ancestor!

Architecture was pretty much the sexiest thing to be doing from 1700-1800.

In fact I'd like to go back and live in Shakespeare's London.

At the roots, people are still people. That's why Shakespeare is so popular no matter what the language.

In another life I would be a medievalist. I loved Chaucer, far more than Shakespeare.

Now, when I talk about Shakespeare, I can't talk too much about Gielgud or Olivier. Because nobody knows who I'm talking about.