Quotes About History

For most of Wall Street's history, stock trading was fairly straightforward: buyers and sellers gathered on exchange floors and dickered until they struck a deal.

I'm the first American black belt under Renzo Gracie.

Ben Askren, the only thing we have in common... I have a real belt. He has some belts from back in the day that don't even matter anymore.

I love history and I love watching history movies, stuff like 'Ben Hur' and 'Lawrence of Arabia' and 'Doctor Zhivago.'

The training comes to us with the benefit of what has gone before.

And of course I like Berlin a lot. It's such an interesting city.

Never mind what you've heard. Halle Berry was not the first black woman to win an Academy Award for Best Actress. She was actually the 74th white one. And never mind all this talk about America electing its first black President; Barack Obama is actually the 44th white man to hold the job.

I really only knew the name Berry Gordy growing up, but I didn't know what he looked like or anything about him.

The Bible is not only laws, it's also stories.

The Bible, for all its riches, is not a document of social history.

The Bible is a history book.

My mum came from an incredibly big family.

I wish I lived in the '60s because I'm a big fan of the Beatles.

To be the first Belgian to play for Liverpool is a big thing.

Nothing of course was ever done to Bill for the killing of Tutt.

The reality is that I love WWE and they represent so much of wrestling in its history. But they've just made a billion poor decisions.

I know all the words to Billy Joel's 'We Didn't Start the Fire.'

I read a lot of biographies and books with an African background.

I see myself as writing biographies, the complete story of someone's life.

Biography should be written by an acute enemy.

You can't leave the thing that you are, the house that has become your biography.

Once you choose to run for president of the United States and succeed, your earlier life, your biography, is a major part of American history.

More and more I'm finding that I'm reading history, I'm reading biography, I'm reading autobiography for a sense of people who've been able to provide leadership. I don't read leadership books anymore.

I don't know much about my biological background.