Quotes About History

One of the great privileges of my job as a curator is occasionally taking people up onto the roof of Hampton Court for a tour.

I'm very happy that Kathryn Bigelow has become the first woman in the 82-year history of the Oscars to earn Hollywood's top prize for filmmakers.

I know I will have to prove I am the best and make history in pro boxing, but I have no doubts about it, as I did in the amateurs, and I will do it as a pro.

The Nazi period could have happened only in Germany because the German education of obedience to any law and order was the main problem.

The problem is that my generation was pacified into believing that racism existed only in our history books.

I believe history of humankind has always faced challenges. I don't think that any other period in history was less problematic then the one in which we live.

Most of the problems a President has to face have their roots in the past.

The Arab world's problems are a problem of the Arab mind, and the name for that problem is anti-Semitism.

I'm basically an optimist because I do think there's this historical modernisation process, and by and large it's been very beneficial to people. But there are blips. History doesn't proceed in a linear way.

Behold, at this hour our moral history is being preserved for eternity. Processes are at work which will perpetuate our every act and word and thought.

To a person growing up in the power of demography, it was clear that history had to do not with the powerful actions of certain men but with the processes of choice and preference.

Of course, one way of thinking about all of life and civilization is as being about how the world registers and processes information. Certainly that's what sex is about; that's what history is about.

When you look back over 100 years when stop-motion was really at the dawn of cinema, a lot of the ways it developed was you had stage magicians who were looking to bring their illusions to life, and one of the ways they did that, at the time, was through cinema and stop-motion. They developed these processes.

Historically, there has been a clear and essential connection between marriage and responsible procreation and child rearing.

There's been a number of erroneous biographies, articles and so on written about Billy and we both thought it would be a good idea to produce a true one.

The United States is the only power in history that became great by giving and not by taking. I think the crisis was when the United States had more money than ideas. Money doesn't produce money. Ideas produce money.

England produced Shakespeare, and the British Empire the six-shilling novel.

For the last 4 years, our Federal Government has produced the four biggest deficits in history, and the estimated 2006 deficit of $423 billion is projected to be the largest of all.

Despite its flaws, the American electoral system has produced Lincoln, the two Roosevelts, and Harry Truman.

When I started running in 1951, running shoes weren't even produced in India.

Argentina have always produced very good players, and mine is just another name on the list.

I kept having the producers of 'Fog in August' take out some of the Nazi terms and phrases. I don't want audiences to look at this doctor and say, 'He is a Nazi monster' and think that it has nothing to do with our lives today.

Historical methodology, as I see it, is a product of common sense applied to circumstances.

Humanity has experienced many revolutionary changes over the course of history: revolutions in agriculture, in science, industrial production, as well as numerous political revolutions. But these have all been limited to the external aspects of our individual and collective lives.