Quotes About History

Look, people have been filming fights since the beginning of time.

Most filmmakers aren't very interested in history. They worry constantly that people will be bored.

As a filmmaker, you realize that places have character based on their history as much as a face does or an actor does.

Not all films are going to go down in history.

The democratic choice Russian people made in the early 90's is final.

Nobody would deny that if someone was a billionaire in 1962, his billions are going to affect all of his descendants. The reverse is also true. The lack of education, material, and finances for a slave are going to affect the descendants of that individual as well.

I don't plan ahead; each book finds me. History itself, the resonance of the past with the present, is the common denominator in all of them.

In fine, nothing is said now that has not been said before.

I would like to say that no man ever was given finer cooperation than that given me by President Truman.

It was a night when London was ringed and stabbed with fire.

In March 1915, at the Battle of Neuve Chapelle, the British fired more shells in a single 35-minute bombardment than they had during the whole Boer War.

I am a firm believer in slavery.

The precariat is the first class in history to be losing acquired rights - cultural, civil, social, economic, and political.

My first job was working in a dress shop in Los Angeles in 1940, for $7 a week.

First of all my real full name is Lloyd Vernet Bridges III.

African-Americans know about racism, but I don't think we really know the causes. I decided it's first of all a family problem.

That would be pretty cool being the first one to do the quint.

My first computer was an IBM Display Writer. With all its components, it was roughly the size of a bass fishing boat.

Bill Clinton beat Bush's father, President George H.W. Bush, for the White House in 1992 by focusing on 'the economy, stupid' - and Clinton's victory led, in time, to the longest sustained boom in American history.

It's not just Barack Obama, but I doubt Jimmy Carter or Bill Clinton would have made it to the White House without Selma.

To the best of my knowledge, I'm the first mom to hold the job of the White House Press Secretary.

In the Fifties, there were certain places we couldn't ride on the bus, and now there is a possibility of a black man being in the White House. You have to feel good about it.

During the protracted tooth-and-nail tussle between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton in the 2008 Democratic primaries, I was one of those fierce partisans desperate for the first black candidate with a serious shot at the White House to win the nomination.

I'm the only fighter to ever go to the White House and meet with a sitting president.