Quotes About History

I think we should go back to the old style of the draw at the Derby.

I think everyone knows what it means to play a derby - it doesn't matter which derby it is.

Most Americans descend from the very people who built this country with their bare hands.

If anything is life-changing, being the descendant of a slave is.

Evil is such a simplistic way to describe any character, be it Iago or Caliban, or any character from history.

The gloomiest way of describing the ancient world is it is misogyny from A to Z, really.

'12 Years a Slave' was very powerful, very moving, and deserved all of the acclaim it did get.

The world is very lucky to have America. It's got to be the first time in the whole history of the planet that a country has been the dominant force in the world and it has actually been a force for good... America really deserves more credit.

Having a wife and kids drove home the brutal reality of the slave system for me - the price it exacted on families. On the other hand, whenever I despair over our history, I am brought back to hope, the hope that things will get better, for my children.

Long view of history shows evil triumphing more often than we'd like to admit. That's just how it is. I don't despair too much about dying, either. It's just a fact of being human.

I've worked with the greatest actors, and they're all gone. This is what's so desperate to me.

Lucknow is a city of love and I am really desperate to know more of what Lucknow is really about.

Right now, the Anglo people are desperately trying to hold on to the United States, like they tried to hold on to Africa.

If all the people of this country, black and white alike, are to enter fully into our national story, as I desperately hope they will, they must do so on terms of reciprocity.

Europe is one of the best travel destinations in the world.

When coaches arrive at a club, we need to understand its history. If we don't understand it, then we are destined to have a bad time.

For 217 years, the whole history of the country has been based on conspiracies, coups, assassinations. We conspire to destroy it, never to build it.

If you've ever seen the film In Which We Serve, but it was about a destroyer in the Mediterranean.

Brandy is the great cause of destruction for the aborigines of America.

Delving into history is not an escape for me. I'm like a detective, sniffing for clues with a terrier-like excitement.

For the Anglo-Saxons, food determined a person's position in society.

There's been a thing with Detroit and the Bulls ever since I've been in the league.

Race always comes up in the conversation of Detroit.

There's no place I love more than Detroit.