Quotes About History

Since I descend just as directly from Catherine de' Medici as I do from Diane de Poitiers, I have no personal interest in damning the one while glorifying the other.

I've been in the director's chair for 'Battlestar Galactica' since its first season. I directed the only comedy that's ever been done in Galactica history.

For Leeds, we have a history of being 'dirty Leeds' and we actually channel that. We want to play great football and we are doing that but we also need to fight every time we go on to the pitch.

Americans disagree about America because the most common consensus as to what America is or has ever been or ever was meant to be eludes us, and it eludes us because we want it to.

And when you started looking into Roger East, it was almost like he had disappeared from history.

The experience of 'Braveheart' was great, but I was a little disappointed that we weren't telling the rest of the story.

I knew about my grandmother's husband who died in the Albion coal disaster. But I didn't know a brother died in the same disaster because of the health and safety, which was terrible.

History is a story like any other, but black history is a story so devoid of logic that it frustrates the young reader. The young readers in my house, told of slavery and segregation, asked in disbelief, 'What? Why?' We - the parents of black children, the parents of all children - still need to tell that story.

I really wanted to be a blues/jazz/gospel singer, but times had changed and disco was now the music - the new sound. I embraced it with all my heart and the rest is history.

Going around Rome, you can find beauty because, quite simply, Rome is very beautiful. But the beauty of the people is sometimes harder to discover.

We really don't discover fully what 'Westworld' is for this first season, until we get there. The first 10 episodes are the journey. The colors become brighter, the vistas become clearer, and the history is more understood with each step we take along the way.

There is a lot of history buried in Chicago that I still have yet to discover.

Christopher Columbus discovered America in a blue-and-white sailor shirt, and since then, men have been wearing blue and white shirts.

I like discovering stories where I'm laughing and I'm learning. It's like, 'How was I never taught that in school?'

The American who first discovered Columbus made a bad discovery.

The FBI has had a history of sex discrimination complaints brought against it, as well as race discrimination.

In the black community, Trump's history of racial discrimination is deeply embedded.

Kids under, I'd say, 14 are still maturing; they are still growing. They are still understanding themselves. To hit them with something like 'Roots,' to hit them with this particular period of time, it's important to discuss the matters beyond the program itself.

Without a doubt, my sexuality was something that I just never discussed, especially in the 1950s.

Malaria was one of the epidemic diseases with the most comprehensive records in traditional Chinese medical literature.

In 2004, there were more black men disenfranchised than in 1870 - the year the 15th Amendment was ratified, prohibiting laws that deny the right to vote exclusively on the basis of race.

What is a Dixiecrat? A Democrat. A Dixiecrat is nothing but a Democrat in disguise.

Everything I do is about Chinese culture. My dishes have to symbolize something because they taste better when people understand.

I am told the Cheney-Bush team dislikes their junta being compared to the Nazis. If they ceased behaving like Nazis, no comparison would come to mind.