Quotes About History

More than just a sobering history lesson, 'Angry Birds' is a beautiful game. It's absolutely lovely.

I can remember my father gave me a huge history of football for my 12th birthday - I used to read that a lot. I can remember thinking it was cool that something I was interested in even had a history. Most things I loved didn't.

Certainly, we are all on the shoulders of those who fought for our country. But the first peoples of this land justifiably might feel bitterness.

I lived and grew up in the black and white period of photojournalism.

It's down to schools to educate children about their history, especially black history.

The Republican Party's history is rich and chock full of emancipation and black history.

I went to school in the 70s and the 80s, and the last thing I expected of my schools back then was that they would be the places in which I would be taught about black history.

What's so interesting is taking kind of all these horror tropes and really finding black history and American history to layer on top of it.

History is so deep, especially black history, so I have a lot to learn.

Black history is American history. You cannot tell one story without telling the other.

I went to white schools and I didn't know anything about black history.

Anglo Saxons: To blame for everything.

Personally, I can't take the blame for what politicians did in 1982. I can't take on some kind of revenge or change history. I want to beat England because I want to win every game I play, but not because we went to war in 1982 or because we played against each other in 1998.

I want to be the best Blazer - ever.

God's blessing has been on America from the very beginning of this nation, and I believe God isn't done with America yet.

I think that often in the United States we're very blind to the ways that history lives in the present.

It's good to know where you come from. It makes you what you are today. It's DNA, it's in your blood.

The people want to go back to the time when democracy was in full bloom.

There are these moments in the military where you're present at these enormous intersections of history and humanity. I came out of the end of that, and I just wanted to write. If you do it well, you know it will last. It can't get blown away like everything else.

Black people created rock music, it's a fact. Black people created bluegrass and rock and roll way before Elvis Presley and The Beatles.

Blues and jazz are such a root to music.

Blues is one of the most important art forms. It's an amazing music, and we don't want to lose it.

Coming up in Chicago, we heard a lot of blues.

I grew up on the precursors to rock and roll, rhythm and blues.