Quotes About History

He didn't have any use for history because he never expected to meet it again. To his mind, history was connected with processions and life with parades and he liked parades.

I sure am sick of the Civil War.

Write about daily life as you would write history.

Cuando los dioses ya no existían y Cristo no había aparecido aún, hubo un momento único, desde Cicerón hasta Marco Aurelio, en que sólo estuvo el hombre.

The world's religions have certain traits in common, but until the gospel of Jesus Christ burst upon the Mediterranean world, no one in the history of human imagination had conceived of such a thing as the worship of a crucified man.

reflect the new way of seeing: the human situation is so tragic that there is no answer from within history. The Christ event is therefore the invasion of this world by Another, who is retaking for himself the world he created.

I don't expect to ever put my family background to rest but I do expect to be taken seriously as a scholar, a writer and a Latin Americanist on my own terms, not defined through my parents and their history or politics.

I don't have a long family history of good cooks in my family.

I think Compton is definitely a part of my, my family history - a part of me.

The Carter family history means a lot to me.

You may not know your complete family history, but the reality is everyone has something, and as you get older, you start to worry about these things more. Health is not sort of like a 6-month project. Health is a lifetime accumulation of behaviors.

I'm a big historical-fiction fan.

Ragtime was a fanfare for the 20th century.

I've been around longer than most of my fans have been alive.

Look, I am in the establishment because my dad, the greatest man alive was president of the United States and my brother, who I adore as well as fantastic brother was president. Fine, I'll take it. I guess I'm part of the establishment Barbara Bush is my mom. I'll take that, too.

When I was a kid, for me, the '60s seemed so far away. But I was actually born in the late '60s.

My mom's side of the family was farm workers.

My family was a poor farming family, and we lived under absolute segregation.

Verona is a very beautiful city, but Siena just never ceases to fascinate me.

I've always been a Civil War buff. In fact, the ships that always fascinated me the most were the ironclads, because they were the start of an era.

I am fascinated with times past.

I've always been fascinated by history.

I didn't choose Russia but Russia chose me. I had been fascinated from an early age by the culture, the language, the literature and the history to the place.

I'd always been fascinated by archaeology; it was my original career plan as a kid.