Quotes About History

Historically, central planners have generally done a poor job of managing economic resources - this we've known since the time of the Pharaohs.

When has there ever been a government in German history that came to the people and revealed its detailed plans for the coming years? That could not happen before, since German governments planned war and conquest.

Do you really believe that the Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory, plans to be a loser in history?

I had said bye-bye to acting, in a way, but once an actor, always an actor. Life has got other plans for me. Like, I did not want to be an actor - I wanted to be an architect or astronaut - and 'Daddy' happened, and the rest is history.

But when you are embodied in a location, in a physical plant, in a set of people, and in a common history, that constrains your evolution and your ability to evolve in certain directions.

When the British ruled Malaysia, they burnt millions of acres of Malaysian forests so that they could plant rubber.

Well, you know, the original banjos were all handmade instruments. Gourd - it would be made with gourds and whatever, you know, materials would have been around. And, you know, first hundred years of its existence, the banjo's known as a plantation instrument, as a black instrument, you know?

I grew up on what everybody called a plantation - but believe me, it wasn't a plantation. It was just an old farm. I grew up with a lot of black people working in the fields, and it was during the Depression between 1930 and the war, so we were all poor - black and white.

It looked like a pagan banner planted on a Christian rampart.

People think the earth is going to die and they have to save it. That's ridiculous. If you rid the earth of flowering plants, people would die, period. But the earth was without flowering plants for almost all of its history.

The Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction was a horrible event. Dinosaurs and many other animals and plants were killed.

Plants are so important to the ancients for medicine and in a religious aspect - and in hemlock!

I think mine is the fullest and most plausible account of what went on in Marie Antoinette's life.

I was the first person in my family to play baseball.

There are not many better clubs to play football for than Liverpool.

Your personal history is a part of what happens with your hands and your head as you play music.

I play music the way it was played in yesteryear.

I played Othello at RADA - blacked up. I didn't know it was going to be offensive now!

I played with the Birmingham Black Barons. I was making 500 at 14. That was a lot of money in those days.

All the political movements of our country that have hitherto played any important role in our modern history had been lacking in the ideal at the achievement of which they aimed. Revolutionary movement is no exception.

I knew Rocky George, the guitar player, 'cause I went to junior high school with him, so I've known him for many years.

Maradona has been the best player in history and for me, Messi is even greater than he is.

I read every book there was on jazz, about the original players - King Oliver, Buddy Bolden and all those groups. At one time I was fairly well schooled in that... I could tell you who played where and when, historically, way before my time.

My family had a business where they worked with gravestones, and I remember growing up and playing in cemeteries like it was a normal playground.