Quotes About History

This is one of the things I find so insufferable about the liberal backlash against critics of Islam—especially the pernicious meme "Islamophobia," by which anyone who thinks Islam merits special concern at this moment in history is branded a bigot.

The Bible, it seems certain, was the work of sand-strewn men and women who thought the earth was flat and for whom a wheelbarrow would have been a breathtaking example of emerging technology.

When was the last time that someone was criticized for not respecting another person's unfounded beliefs about physics or history? The same rules should apply to ethical, spiritual, and religious beliefs as well.

I'm a big sports history buff. I love sports.

I'm proud of the fact that I'm the only player to hit a ball completely out of Dodger Stadium.

I love the history of the sport, I love the culture that surrounds it, and I never dreamed I'd become a fanatic. I'm such a fanatic now that I'm committed to competing.

If you want information about sports, I can tell you things from the 1940's, and the couple years that my grandson was kind of a jock, but nothing in between.

I hope somebody hits .400 soon. Then people can start pestering that guy with questions about the last guy to hit .400.

Beating Pakistan is always special because they are a tough team and we have a bit if a history regarding Pakistan.

But I would say basically, I would just like to be remembered for what I did on the field.

One of the most serious errors, if not the most serious error, committed by colonial powers in Africa, may have been to ignore or underestimate the cultural strength of African peoples.

About 10,000 years ago, males and females were acting equitably and were treating one another as equals, and then males took over the power, because they have physical power and physical strength.

The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.

As an American, I want to see our nation recapture the strength and unity it once had when we fought the enemy instead of ourselves.

Our strength lies in our intensive attacks and our barbarity...After all, who today remembers the genocide of the Armenians?

There is nothing more American than brutal violence. The country was built on it, revels in it and shows every evidence of clinging to it with the crazed, destructive strength of an obsessive lover.

[Magna Carta provided] "a system of checks and balances which would accord the monarchy its necessary strength, but would prevent its perversion by a tyrant or a fool.

The atom bomb was no great decision. It was merely another powerful weapon in the arsenal of righteousness.

Rosa Parks was a woman of strength, conviction, and morality. Her action on December 1, 1955, to defy the law made her a leading figure in our nation's civil rights history.

The history, the root, the strength of my father is the strength we now rest on.

The strength of the Democratic Party of Cook County is not something that just happened.

Chicago's neighborhoods have always been the city's greatest strength.

That is the strength of having a trusting and ongoing relationship that draws on our history and moves right on into our present, and I have that kind of marriage.

Southern food derives its strength from many cultures. It's a melding of food cultures from Native Americans, enslaved African-Americans, and Europeans.