Quotes About History

I'm a lifelong movie addict, and one of my favorite projects is making replica props and costumes. Nearly every one of these - from R2D2 to Hellboy's revolver - ends with the paint job. And it's not just cosmetic. The paint literally tells a story: what this thing is made of, where it's been, what it's been used for, and for how long.

The appearance of the bones of quadrupeds, especially those of complete bodies in the strata, tells us either that the layer itself which carries them was in earlier times dry land or that dry land was at least formed in the immediate area.

You know, the way art history is taught, often there's nothing that tells you why the painting is great. The description of a lousy painting and the description of a great painting will very much sound the same.

In a very basic way, a prominent landmark such as Mt. Holyoke tells you where you are. They let you know that you're not the first person in a place.

History tells us that America does best when the private sector is energetic and entrepreneurial and the government is attentive and engaged. Who among us, really, would, looking back, wish to edit out either sphere at the entire expense of the other?

I've been completely fascinated with history because it tells everything about what's going to happen next because it's cyclical, everything repeats in general.

Oral history is a recipe for complete misrepresentation because almost no one tells the truth, even when they intend to.

I have never seen a picture of my mother. My mother's family never owned a photograph of her, which tells you everything you need to know about where I'm from and what the world was like for the people who gave me life.

People forget that although we can pinpoint the price, we can only guess at future earnings. The past isn't much help: It simply tells whether a market was pricey or cheap.

I like making films about old people because they are repositories of amazing stories that they tell well. And they're incredibly good telly.

Like the seasons of the year, like history, truth also repeats itself. But we seldom recognize it when great poets or true artists - the prophets and the priests of our day - present it to us in garments spick and span, following the fashion of the age, the slant of its fancy, the turn and temper of its mind.

I have a little history. I met Stone Temple Pilots, and their guitar player was a huge Extreme fan. Somewhere down the road, Extreme made its statement.

I may have been born in Tel Aviv, but my umbilical cord emerges from the Temple Mount.

Every Jew has the right to ascend onto the Temple Mount.

Whenever I can snatch two-three days, I get into the car or a train and head straight for a temple site, mostly Brihadishvara Temple.

Although prefabrication has a long history - the ancient Romans shipped pre-cut stone columns, pediments, and other architectural elements to their colonies in North Africa, where the numbered parts were reassembled into temples - the idea took on a new impetus with the technological advances of the Industrial Revolution.

There is a history which has to be reversed, and that is the demolition of our temples.

The 20th century shows that the form of government that we take for granted, a constitutional democratic republic with checks and balances and a rule of law - that form of government is usually temporary.

I guess this place is where your intellect changes. I guess it's no behavior-modification place. but a history tutor said Harvard used to be . . . worried as much about the students' morality, their character, as . . . exams.

She like history . . . and wished the English teacher would ask the class to read history books. Instead the teacher was 'always' assigning poems.

Maybe it all went back to the days when games were decided, not by the best score in nine innings, but by the first team to score twenty-one runs

History my god. An incurable diarrhea of dead immortals.

Whatever happened to Gloomy Gus of the Chicago Bears?

The story is the same, over and over, only the facts are different and the names and the places.