Quotes About History

I think there are patterns of the aftermath of colonization that you see echoed in cultures and communities across the world.

I'd heard about a shipwreck that was never found - John Paul Jones' Bonhomme Richard. So I thought, 'Well, I'll go look for it.'

It scares me how some people don't respect the paths that have been paved for us, and who they've been paved by. It scares me because I don't want it to lose the family oriented feeling and the feeling you get at the Grand Ole Opry listening to Jack Greene or Jim Ed Brown, and thinking, 'Yeah, this is what it's all about.'

To be inducted into the Hall of Fame is a huge honor for any one person in this industry. It not only gives you credibility as the mark you made in the pages of history to the fans, but notoriety for the path you paved for everyone who followed in your footsteps.

It is an unscrupulous intellect that does not pay to antiquity its due reverence.

History is made every day. The challenge is getting everyone to pay attention to it.

When you are 'world building,' people will oftentimes judge how well you built your world. They want to know: Is the culture believable? Does it feel like it has a history? I try very hard to pay attention to details.

History lets you know exactly where you are today. And if you pay attention to it, it gives you a broad perspective of everyone. You can relate it to pretty much any time.

I knew nothing of American History because I didn't pay attention to American History in school. Because I did not see myself in American History in school.

To the humblest among them, who may be listening to me now, I want to say that the masterpiece to which you are paying historic homage this evening is a painting which he has saved.

And historically the owners have used loyalty to a team or a city to hold players as opposed to always paying their worth.

In 1958, I was a delegate to the Atoms for Peace conference in Geneva.

Whatever their defects, Christian fundamentalists have lived peacefully among us in America for several hundred years.

The Canadians have managed to live peacefully with their Indians. It is disgrace that the United States has not done the same.

I've been airbrushed out, as it were. You can imagine my frustration at being erased from history deliberately. I really don't know how Yoko can sleep at night knowing what she's done. But I can tell you I sleep very peacefully.

When I first served as Attorney General back in the early 90s, crime was at its highest in American history, with its peak in 1992.

Millions of people gave their lives fighting fascism and imperialism, but Pearl Harbor was the event that forever changed the course of human history.

By all means, let someone else have Pearl Harbor.

I was naturalized right before Pearl Harbor. Nine days later, I would have been classified as an enemy alien. I might have been sent to a camp.

The lesson of Pearl Harbor ought never to be forgotten, and of course the motto that came from that, 69 years ago, the war which my dad fought, was 'Remember Pearl Harbor, never again.' We need to keep that to mind.

I was in Shanghai when the Japanese invaded China. I was there in Shanghai when, the morning after Pearl Harbor, they seized Shanghai.

'Pearl Harbor' is definitely about December 7, 1941, but it is not of December 7, 1941. It's not even really of our age, either. It has more of the feel of a film from, roughly, mid-war.

I hope no one will think of... sending me to Pearl Harbor.

The attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 completely crippled our Pacific Fleet.