Quotes About History

The white explorers had been my heroes. The Aborigines, I thought they were real savages. That was what I'd been taught and that's what I believed.

The '60s is such an explosive period. It was very interesting for me because I grew up in Canada, and obviously, I know some American history because I've lived here for many years, and even in Canada, that does permeate.

I was in school for architecture and when you're in school for a creative discipline, so much of what you produce comes out of inspiration from other people. The more you're exposed to architecturally, the better you can develop your own language out of that history of architectural thought.

Fashion is an expression of a time, of a place, of history. It's putting things into context.

With anybody we're looking to draft, we do an extensive amount of work on their background, history and all that.

The lives of African-Americans in this country are characterized by violence for most of our history. Much of that violence, at least to some extent, you know, done by the very state that's supposed to protect them.

Doing the box set is one of those things where you get to rewrite your own history to some extent. We could take out some of the songs that we felt weren't as strong as some of the others, so you look better.

I don't think a lot of the younger players know the extent of my background.

From the first time I played with Lester Flatt, I sensed an extreme amount of history around me.

We have a fabulous civil rights history here in Birmingham.

The nation is faced with one of the most corporate-orientated anti-consumer Congresses in our history.

America says we are a great democratic society and other people should follow our example. Well, I say we benefited from slavery, and as a nation, we never faced that because the people in power chose not to.

I wanted to play Zapruder, as he is a man you really don't know much about: a faceless, anonymous figure.

Faces are the ledgers of our experience.

All the events that have made up the character and fabric of British culture and everything that has happened to make up the fabric of America culture - art and music - includes the faces and the colours of a lot of people.

The challenges African-Americans are facing today are rooted in the system of slavery.

The Shield had run its course as a three-man group, and we'll go down in history as one of the greatest factions of all time.

I want this book to be facts, to be important, to be history.

I got history solidly under my belt, reading Russian history and biographies. I couldn't change the facts. I could only play with how the people might have responded to the facts of their lives.

I don't retain facts very well when it comes to music history.

It's wrong to look at what we call 'Enlightenment values' as some fad of the 18th century. It's deeply rooted in ancient history.

Back in the '70s - I remember the '70s: we were told there was global cooling. And everyone was told global cooling was a really big problem. And then that faded.

There have always been revivals. Some have always been successful. And many of them have failed.

I love cookbooks. I certainly have my fair share at home, but I'm a really funny cookbook person: I don't really ever cook out of cookbooks. I like cookbooks for the commentary or the pictures or the history.