Quotes About History

George H. W. Bush

You know, times change. That's why there are so many debates about who people think the greatest players of all time are.

I had always had a deep interest in social science, history. So even when I was in high school, I was debating, and in college debating, and interested in contemporary events.

We have discharged one generation of debtors after another, but we do not find that their numbers lessen. We find only that we forget, when times are good, that times were ever bad.

Think of the first Apple II being shipped in 1977. It took almost a decade for it to land in my school where I could see it.

I am the Empire at the end of the decadence.

What role did the Internet play in the Egyptian Revolution? People will be arguing about the answer to that question for decades if not centuries.

All my life, the Republican Party has been my political home. Helping it succeed has been my work for decades. It was never perfect, but families never are.

Everyday decision-making around the world is constantly based on what came before us.

The Declaration is a magnificent document.

The idea of England in decline is very attractive.

All languages had their birth, their apogee and decline.

I'm not really smart, but I'm dedicated. I can be good at anything if I love it and dedicate myself. And I love history. I love science. I love music. I love golf. I love learning. I love life.

In great deeds something abides.

Deep down, I do not believe that there are any really good parents out there - the same way that I do not believe there were any really good doctors in the 10th century.

Families are the deepest, most screwed up relationships that we have.

I was always deeply aware that I was living in history.

It would be great to play in a Scotland side that defeated England. That could be another box ticked off for me.

In the Franco era, we couldn't defend our ideas.

It is unevolved to want to celebrate the architects and defenders of slavery.

It is an honor of a lifetime to be appointed secretary of defense and to lead the greatest military in history.

I think the '06 Ravens, if we woulda won a championship, would have been considered maybe the best of all time, because statistically, I think that defense led the NFL in more categories than any other defense in history.

We can all be defined by food.

Our past absolutely defines everything we do in the present. We can't help it. We're made by the events of our past, so there's no escaping it.