Quotes About History

Everything you do leaves traces, doesn't it. The life you've lived is written all over you, for those who can read.

Then all this became history. Your hand found mine. Life rushed to my fingers like a blood clot. Oh, my carpenter, the fingers are rebuilt. They dance with yours.

I write to breathe life back into memory.

I've got nothing against records - I've spent my life making them - but they are a kind of historical blip.

When child actors act well they're just reacting to situations, and they're acting very real because their life experience is so short; there's no history to fall back on.

What keeps you from... living your life as a painful and lovely day in the history of a great pregnancy?

The history of prevailing status quos shows decay and decadence infecting the opulent materialism of the Haves. The spiritual life of the Haves is a ritualistic justification of their possessions.

There are no more barbershop quartets wearing boaters, even though I still like them. Life goes on.

It was among the ruins of the capitol that I first conceived the idea of a work which has amused and exercised nearly twenty years of my life.

Portraying Pocahontas' story well was important to me because she was a real person and these were real events in her life.

Every view of the world that becomes extinct, every culture that disappears, diminishes a possibility of life

You grew up way too fast and now there's nothing to believe; and re-runs all become our history.

I wake the dead. I bring Jackie Robinson and the Roosevelts to life. Who do you think Im trying to wake up?

Woz is living his own life now. He hasn't been around Apple for about five years. But what he did will go down in history.

Every major question in history is a religious question. It has more effect in molding life than nationalism or a common language.

Birthdays could be such a bummer when you were older than the country you lived in.

Every President that went to China, I would meet them and have dinner and talk about the past and the future. That was in the '70s.

This film 'Hero' talks about the peace of Chinese people.

Maar, lieve mensen, u zult toch een beetje moeten denken, dat geeft een hele steun. Het is immers duidelijk dat de hele geschiedenis der mensheid voor zover wij die kennen, de geschiedenis is van de overgang van nomadische levensvormen naar een al meer gezeten levenswijze. Volgt daar niet uit dat de meest gezeten levenswijze (de onze) tevens de meest volmaakte (de onze) is?

Home is our starting point for connecting to the past.

Color shouldn't make anybody scared. Is it because slavery happened? Is that why some whites are afraid of black people? I don't know. Wake up, people, I want to tell everyone. Fear, stereotypes about black boys don't make the world better.

I understood your hope came not from some belief in the triumph of good or the kindness of politicians and bureaucrats. Your hope came from within; something inside you harbored and nourished a spark that had not been squelched and would always burn inside you and those you were able to touch. I came to believe that light inside came from the pride of knowing you were part of a long line in history that could survive.

The only truly dead are those who have been forgotten.

Where ever i go, the Cultural Revolution followed me