Quotes About History

I have Chinese blood in me... I am not ashamed to admit that perhaps the great leaders of our country all have Chinese blood.

I was adopted without the benefit of papers. They used to hide adoption in the forties; I don't know why. Perhaps it was shameful. I could have been kidnapped - there are all kinds of crazy things that people have done - but I got over dealing with that a long time ago.

Perhaps I am old-fashioned, but black and white films still hold an affectionate place in my heart; they have an incomparable mystique and mood.

The historic dearth of labor was perhaps the central feature of the American economy in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

You know, songs often have a very coloured past. They might have something about them but it still doesn't work, so someone else adds a bit, and someone else adds a bit so perhaps one day I'll know its full history.

The 1950s and 1960s had been a period of enormous growth, the highest in American history, maybe in economic history.

It appears that the present-day form of African American English is not the inheritance of the period of slavery, but the creation of the second half of the 20th century.

The whole period of the '60s changed a lot of us; there was never a decade like that in American history... to have the decade capture one of the great accomplishments of this century: man landing on the moon.

Something about the genre of period drama feels so quintessentially British.

I think any period in history can be adapted into interesting fiction, as long as you approach the actual history with respect.

That period of history has always fascinated me - Greek history, Greek mythology.

Incredibly lucky to be an actor at this period in history. I'm able to work in this business and look put-together - sexy, even - with natural hair.

I've done a lot of period drama before. A lot of my jobs have been that.

But with period clothes, people know less so they accept the pretty drawing that I give them.

I remember that during the period leading up to independence in Angola in 1975, I was the only correspondent there at all for three months.

In terms of the idea of long-term occupation - I have been reading a little bit more about this period - and you can see in that occupation are many lessons for the current occupation of Iraq. So we have these connections that go way back that people aren't aware of.

I'm inspired by history, different periods.

The greatest events of history are those which affect the greatest number for the longest periods.

The world has always gone through periods of madness so as to advance a bit on the road to reason.

The charms of women were never more powerful never inspired such achievements, as in those immortal periods, when they could neither read nor write.

Nobody knows what really happened in any historical period. There are some periods where we know more than others, though.

When you look back on music history, it falls into these neat periods, but of course, the period you yourself are living through seems totally scattered and chaotic.

I grew up during one of Northern Ireland's most complex periods.

I think certain periods of history don't get dealt with because I think historians, and it's their job, but they look back and look for patterns. They look for sequences and they look for reasons, and certain periods of history don't fit with the general pattern of 1500 to the 20th century, during which there's the creation of the United States.