Quotes About History

I've been into guns ever since I was a little kid, and the ones that fascinate me most are the black powder guns that people used back in the 17 and 1800s.

There's always a part of your nation's history that you haven't been told that... has a powerful impact on how you yourself may behave and may believe.

People ask how could I be so conservative. Well, I was born to people raised in 1889.

Philosophy was once considered science.

Segregation has never been a shadowy, impossible-to-pin-down conspiracy. It's been an American way of life.

The nature of the Catilinarian conspiracy was bad and bloody.

America has a strange relationship with its racial memory. Death has always been a constant companion of black people.

There hasn't been anybody else write a Constitution like Madison. There just hasn't been, because that person hasn't existed anywhere but here.

I always felt that, through it all, there was a really strong, forward, positive, constructive accomplishment by the American people during that period, if you consider that during the period from 1954 to 1965, this country broke through the caste system.

I read very little contemporary anything.

Strange as it may seem, George Washington's life has now been so minutely documented that we know far more about him than did his own friends, family, and contemporaries.

That's one of the reasons I decided to come to Boston - to contend and win a championship, especially with the history of the Celtics and what they stand for.

Sometimes you can't fight change, because you're a part of it, and I feel that in the context of these films that are happening now, there is a kind of change coming in terms of how history is represented on film, and the African, and the African-American and British African experience.

When you're looking back at your ancestral history or the cultural context of your identity, it's natural to search for that in the food.

My continent knows more about me than I do myself.

Our language, history, and civilization shine out across every continent.

Africa is the continent that the rest of the world prefers not to think about.

But we are entitled to look for continuity in politics.

If you see my history with contracts, it's never been about money because if it was about money I would have made other choices.

I don't think that when Zionism began there was a claim that we were losing - even in part - our capacity to contribute to other peoples.

My family is used to all manner of controversy.

With 'Doctor Who', with the script you have, and the history, I think that people are actually playing the legend rather than the character. Ive been to sci-fi conventions, and Ive met every Doctor Who and assistant.

When growing up, there were never any conversations about the past, because if you don't ask the questions, you never get the answers.

I'm enormously proud of being the ancestor of a convict. That's mad, isn't it, but I really am.