Quotes About History

I, too, am convinced that our ancestors came from Africa.

It was through cooking food and sharing it with each other that our ancestors learned how to become social animals.

As a black man, you run from the cops. It's different now, but back when I was coming up, you run.

My father was educated in Cork, in the University of Cork, in the '50s.

At News Corporation, we have a history of challenging media orthodoxies.

I came from an era when I was so proud to be working for the British Broadcasting Corporation.

Why on Earth would the United States ever want to be more like Europe? Correct me if I'm wrong, but we left, did we not? Not only did we leave that older, lesser world behind, but we left skid-marks along the way with an entire continent eating our proverbial dust.

The Tammany guys, many of them were corrupt. They were still around when I was a boy. You knew the Tammany guys' name.

Contracting corruption has been around since the construction of the Appian Way.

If you want to learn about a culture, you look at what buildings the people lived in but you also want to know about their cosmos.

For me, I tend to enjoy wearing any period costume. I love how fashion and clothing has changed and evolved through time.

Of course everyone dreams of living in the 17th or the 18th century because of the costumes, but there were so many incommodities.

I've always wanted to do a period drama - I love the costumes and the make-up.

The Allman Brothers Band has a long, storied history and I wouldn't count them out. It's just not in the cards for me.

The Black Sea is Eastern Europe's counterpart to the Mediterranean.

The industrialized countries that came to dominate post-slavery have caused the climate to change.

To be a manager, you have to perform always. You cannot live in history. It's now and tomorrow that counts.

I think my ancestors had to be enormously strong emotionally and very courageous.

There was a woman in Elizabeth I's court that happened to have the same family name as me.

In a second-class courtesan house, the courtship was much briefer. It could even be one night; usually it went on a little bit longer. But as the years went by, that period of courtship was shorter and shorter.

Colonialism is the cousin of slavery.

There is, of course, only one chosen nation. But Abraham Lincoln would call America 'an almost chosen nation' because he believed that America had a providential role to play in history, inspired by the example of God's ancient covenant people.

History can never be covered up.

I'm covering the worst president in American history.