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Quotes About History

We were alive during the 'Battle of the Sexes', but that story hadn't really been told.
~ Valerie Faris
We had the best food any battlefield ever had.
~ William Westmoreland
We need to stop refighting 40-year old battles on women's rights.
~ Elizabeth Esty
One of the basic lessons of history is that things can be different.
~ Rutger Bregman
I think we tend to be kind of ahistorical, and think that life as we are living it in the moment is all we know.
~ Kurt Andersen
Yes, I did feel a special responsibility to be the first American woman in space.
~ Sally Ride
It is very special for me to be the first Designated Player in LAFC history.
~ Carlos Vela
A lot of what we think of as history is actually just a version of events which may or may not be true.
~ Sandi Toksvig
I like beating old standardbearers of the N.F.L.
~ George Blanda
I was lucky enough to see the Beatles play live.
~ Jon English
Buenos Aires is an incredibly kind of fragrant city, a beautiful city to look at, and it has the old and the new.
~ Miguel Sapochnik
Jaipur has definitely turned into a very beautiful city.
~ Poonam Dhillon
The British 'A Night to Remember' is so beautifully done and so well-constructed.
~ Robert Osborne
It's becoming very much like 1979 again.
~ Richard Wright
The Bee Gees no longer exist.
~ Barry Gibb
Melding Staten Island history with making beer has been a dream come true.
~ Brian Quinn
Nothing is said that has not been said before.
~ Terence
If the house is to be set in order, one cannot begin with the present; he must begin with the past.
~ John Hope Franklin
I begin to feel like I was in the last generation of Americans who took a civics class.
~ Roger Ebert
The American Revolution was a beginning, not a consummation.
~ Woodrow Wilson
To acknowledge the beginnings of people is a beautiful thing.
~ Noma Dumezweni
Beijing is my favorite city in China.
~ Andrew Lau
I remember being a teenager, I never thought that I'd live in a society that was not segregated. It happened.
~ Shelby Steele
Belfast is great.
~ Adrian Dunbar