Quotes About History

I wanted to be a part of the Disney history.

I don't dispute the accounts of My Lai 4, but I think that anyone who is a student of the war, or anyone who was there, would agree that anything you could imagine happening probably happened.

Americans have a penchant for the future and tend to disregard the past.

How can you disrespect the West Indies when we were so dominant in world cricket for so long? We have to face it ourselves because our own board don't defend us.

History has done a great disservice to Anne Boleyn.

Roy Acuff's from Maynardville, and that's where a lot of my family's from. So he's, I've been told, a distant cousin, as well.

I don't see any distinction between work and pleasure so I do spend a lot of what other people might consider my leisure time doing history things.

I want to ensure that the people of the 5th District continue to benefit from the sensible economic policies under the leadership of President Donald Trump. Because of our President, more African Americans are employed now than ever before in the history of our country.

Dallas was a Black and White society at that time; it didn't have the diversity it has now.

Africa doesn't look like it's changed that much to me since I first went in '94. There is still a major economic divide, but the rights of Africans have changed and progressed.

Much of India's Hindu-Muslim divisions can also be located in the context of history, fomented further by the politics of divide and rule.

The safest period of my lifetime was the Cold War, when Europe was more sharply divided than ever.

Well, we could tell them that we're here on an archeological expedition.

Nothing which has entered into our experience is ever lost.

I come from a country in which I experienced economic collapse.

I secretly wish I had experienced advertising in the 'Mad Men' period.

American culture is not about experiencing our shame, it's about denying it. It's been that way our whole history.

An expert is someone who knows a lot about the past.

It's hard to explain why I like Europe so much.

Europe became rich because it exploited Africa; and the Africans know that.

I've always been interested in space and the idea of exploration in that area since I was a child growing up through the '60s.

I want to know why I'm alive. I want to understand. It's like exploration; it's like someone being interested in a place and its history, digging into the earth and looking for it, searching - it's a passion.

I like to explore different ideas of race, how the concept of race has evolved in the country. It's one thing I enjoy talking about, but I don't feel compelled to talk about it.

'Mudbound,' you know, is about home. 'Mudbound' is about what it means to be a citizen, and 'Mudbound,' in fact, is set in this post-reconstruction era that we haven't really explored. You know, not since 'Sounder' have we even really explored that experience.