Quotes About History

I play along with 'Pointless' and I love 'The Chase.' I'm not bad either - geography, biology and history are my strong points.

Our evolution could have gone in different directions a lot of times. We could have gone extinct at some points. We might not have gotten our big brains, or Neanderthals might have made it while we did not.

I was born in the '50s - 1951. So I grew up during that part of the '50s when everything was supposed to be at its best in America, they claimed, and then eased into the '60s.

I was an English major at Brown. I never enjoyed history classes.

Though Tikal may have been settled by at least 600 B.C., most of the city's edifices were built during what is called the Classic period of Maya history, from A.D. 250 to 900.

There's something very special about seeing history so clearly in front of you through that architecture that you just don't get in the U.S. If I was asked to choose where I'd most like to live, I would always choose London.

I always thought Grover Cleveland was from Cleveland.

I'm not a clicks man, I wasn't born in the clicks era. I'm a bricks man, I believe in bricks.

My middle name is Cliff, so Ive been nicknamed Cliffy in the past.

The climate has been changing since there was a climate.

Climate change has been going on as long as the planet is here, and there will always be a little bit of it.

The top climbers in the world had attempted this climb and couldn't do it. That history is what makes Meru special.

The novel is an artifact, which is why antiquarians cling to it so fervently.

Bill Clinton is the greatest president of my lifetime. Period.

In 1947, the year Clinton was born, there were no women serving in the Senate.

The Right has been trying to take down Bill Clinton for 20 years. I know; I was there.

I'm still very close friends with his first wife, Neile, who is now remarried.

There was a close relationship between Mandela and the CBC.

I was taught about slavery, but it was the ancient Egyptians. That's the closest I got to African history.

All my closest friends are the ones I made at school.

Everything I own in my closet has a story. Stuff is not just stuff - things were given to me with love.

Everything is different about the world of the past, including the way we think and move, and you get a sense of that through the clothing.

Arsenal are a really big club.

For me, there is only one club in England, and that's Liverpool.