Quotes About History

We can't let the past be forgotten.

I think the inhabitants of the past are fighting hard to keep the rents they acquired in the 20th century.

I think there's something inherently dishonest in trying to go back and mess with the past.

My past is a bit checkered.

Our racial past and future is something that we Americans must address.

A feeling for history is almost an essential for writing and appreciating good science fiction, for sensing the connections between the past and future that run through our present.

The illusion is that most of my work is simply about past events: a point in history and nothing else.

I'm pretty sure that I was JFK in my past life.

Baseball has long been a national pastime that many Americans have cherished.

Pastors need to know what's going on in the world and what has been going on for 4,000 years. We need a way to read Scripture which is imaginative, interpretive.

In charting our course to the future, we are mindful of our path from the past.

America in 2016 is on the path to becoming what Germany was in 1867.

Yeah, I don't know how many people are aware of it, but Scarlett and I have a bit of a past as far as wrestling goes. We were both in Ring of Honor at the same time, and our paths crossed when she was managing Matt Taven.

Every country in history that has gone down dark paths, where governments take on too much control and really intervene and take away those freedoms, often start with an attack on the freedom to disagree.

Racism is a cancer. Black people have been dealing with this ever since we landed on these shores in shackles and chains. If we've been doing it for that long, those of us who are impatient need to be a little more patient and keep on addressing those things, not ignoring it. White people need to do the same thing. Don't turn a blind eye to it.

You don't overturn x-thousand years of patriarchy in a generation.

John Ashcroft is not a patriot, John Ashcroft is a descendant of Joseph McCarthy.

When I was 16, I was in a film called 'The Patriot.' I spent every second I could on the set watching the director and his team bring America circa 1775 to life. From that moment on, I was hooked.

For you are the makers of the flag and it is well that you glory in the making.

In all of history, there has always been a time and a place where patriots rise up against the decree of the elites and shout, 'No more... get your hands off my freedom!'

If you grew up in Boston, you actually grew up thinking that Patriots' Day is a major American holiday, sort of like the other Fourth of July.

Patriots' Day is the essence of Boston, a Massachusetts-only holiday that seems like it was invented to celebrate Boston.

Since the late 19th century, the median age of first marriage for women had fluctuated between 20 and 22. This had been the shape, pattern and definition of female life.

My inability to stick with any journal or calendar has been a pattern for God-since-forever.