Quotes About History

History's written from what can be found; what isn't saved is lost, sunken and rotted, eaten by earth.

This is what I think is fun about fiction - you get to use as much history as you want as scaffolding and then go beyond it and change it and mutate it.

IBM existed a good 50 years before mainframes - we started with scales.

American hate is not new - and it is not scarce.

The scars and stains of racism are still deeply embedded in the American society.

I grew up being obsessed with old Hollywood and loving the history, what's behind the scenes, and what people don't know.

Egyptians are quite incredible people. They have everything: the culture, the music, the scenes. So much of Arab music and art started there.

Countries get one chance in history of putting into place a savings retirement scheme on the scale of the Australian superannuation system.

I would have been an Egyptologist if I had had the schooling.

I'm a history dork and a sci-fi dork.

I did not think twice when the offer from England came because it was always a professional goal of mine. I want to make history in Watford and score lots of goals.

I think Scotland has some great stories.

I come from a heavy-lidded people. My family, you'll see pictures of them, and it's the same thing all the way back to Scotland.

When I started, there was never a great history of people doing well in snooker from Scotland. By chance, I got a table for my Christmas. If I hadn't got that, then none of this would have happened.

I know Leeds have had a few Scottish captains but I don't look too much to that because you can get lost in the history of the club. There's so much good history but it's all about the present and the future.

What I appreciated was the fact that the script delved into how Australians were - and still are - condescended to by the English.

You start out with scripts pre-written, with no specific actor in mind, so you've got to build a character on top of that foundation. It's not just lifting words off the page, it's constructing a history around them as well.

We have come to Earth in this great season in the long history of mankind. It is a marvelous age - the best of all.

If I didn't have a front-row seat on history, it was at least a seat on the aisle.

Let's remember, the Second Amendment has been around for over 200 years.

It takes only a few seconds to make history new again.

I was the first woman elected as secretary of agriculture in Iowa.

I will reveal the secrets behind these doors.

I think all of the secrets of the universe are revealed in history. We understand who we are by understanding where we've been and why we are the way we are, and where we come from.