Quotes About History

I am proud to be part of Ferrari's history.

When you have a novel set in a fictional history, you still should get your history right.

I much prefer films based on fact rather than fictional stories.

I come from the coal fields.

Gerda Lerner was fierce, brilliant and unique. She lived history by her bravery, restored history by her scholarship, and democratized its study by her activism.

You know, my dad was a lieutenant colonel at Ft. Lewis on the 3rd of March, 1941. Fifteen months later, he was commanding a theater of war.

For more than fifty years, our policy towards Cuba was not making life better for Cubans. In many ways, it was making it worse.

There's never been someone like me in history - a fighter like me only comes along every 1,000 years.

Khabib Nurmagomedov is the most dominant fighter in the history of MMA.

The UFC has a long history of changing a fighter's compensation for a particular bout... There's always changes that's always being made as far as contracts.

When you look back in history and see other fighters coming back, it's never really been good for them.

You can't put those guys like Marciano or anyone else in with today's class of fighters.

I am not like most fighters. I want to be on the list of the greatest, best boxers in history.

My mother belongs to a family of freedom fighters.

When I started law school I was shocked to learn that our legal system traditionally had the man as the head and master of the family. As late as the '70s and '80s when we were fighting for the Equal Rights Amendment, states like Louisiana still had a head and master law.

Everybody fights for money, of course, but I wanted to leave a legacy when I retired, get my name in the history. I don't think like that anymore. When I lost the belt, I saw how reality is. Champion means nothing.

There are so many figures in our history that did not believe they could make a change, and they did.

Few living figures could contribute as much as Castro to our understanding of the second half of the 20th century.

I am convinced that 100 years from now, people will talk about Elliott Carter as one of the most important figures in the second half of 20th-century music.

Figuring out a way to balance the Boxer story with the Chinese Christians was difficult.

Everton have had great centre-forwards in the past - they are big boots to fill.

A lot of my work, the subject is film and television itself, and history, and how that kind of coincides with larger cultural history and memory.

I am proud because when the history of Bhojpuri film industry will be written my name will be there.

I'll definitely say that, before film school, I didn't have much of a film-history background. I didn't know much about classic cinema.