Quotes About History

Shakespeare examines how democracy is built.

Ripping children away from their parents has a particular shameful history, both in this country and around the world.

When it comes to history I am shameless. I will do whatever it takes to get people involved.

New York grew up before the automobile. And even though it's full of cars, its shape and form didn't get created around the automobile.

When you're around your family, and you have that history and that shared language, you say things you'd be embarrassed to hear quoted back to you later.

I have been around a long time and shared some very elite company.

I'm the great-great-grandson of a sheep stealer.

It's important for African-Americans to express themselves, period. We're 400 years behind. We should be able to shine whenever and however we feel.

My work as a whole is about excavating and shining a light on pieces of history that not only need to be seen and heard, but that can also add to the conversation about what's going on now.

Whenever you're in an England shirt, you have an opportunity to make history.

I love history, and I thought I knew history well, but I was shocked by how little I knew about it.

In my industry, a shirt and a shoe are still made the exact same way they were 80 years ago.

Shooting in Jaipur was one of the best experiences of my life. The city is culturally quite rich, and each part of it has a history.

I am never without my gavel, which I bought from an antique shop in Burford, in the Cotswolds.

Problems of 35 years cannot be resolved in a short period of time.

As I walk to my office every morning, I know I stand on the shoulders of those who came before me.

If the British public were shown slavery in their own society seen through the eyes of the enslaved, they would get a much better understanding.

We have loyalty at Arsenal, and players have shown that in the past.

The pictures I appear in are shown in school rooms all over the country.

At the Academy Awards every year, there are best-dressed stars - and worst-dressed stars. But it's the worst-dressed that go down in history.

Going to the Academy Awards is something I remember since I was six, when I went with my mom for the first time, 14 with my dad, you know, and there I am, at 22, 23, whatever I was, sitting next to my mom. You know, and then again, there with my dad. Like, there's a beauty to it, and I care deeply about film history.

I hope that I am helping to create an understanding and an awareness of what happened to the Aboriginal people.

Altamont... I remember all of that. That was an awful day.

Most time capsules, when they're unearthed, are really awful. There's nothing good in them.