Quotes About History

When the first fossils began to be found in eastern Africa, in the late 1950s, I thought, what a wonderful marriage this was, biology and anthropology. I was around 16 years old when I made this particular choice of academic pursuit.

I really like England. I like the lifestyle and the country. The history. The culture, which London is full of. The country pursuits.

Footballers have to help each other out. Everybody must give his best in pursuit of common goals - not individual ones. This has been the German approach through our football history.

People talking about making America great again? America's never been great. The greatness of America is in its pursuit of greatness.

Dorado Beach's rich history provided amazing inspiration to put forward a bold menu celebrating the legacy of the people and cuisine that shaped this unique destination and to push me to share some of my own stories.

Racism is earthbound - it's something we only do to each other here on earth. Legacy, on the other hand, is otherworldly. It pushes us forward to our future.

People pushing the idea that everyone can live to be 100 are perpetuating a myth that goes all the way back to the Bible.

If you look back throughout the history of Broadway, there's always been periods where writers and producers have delivered the kind of things that people want to see, while at the same time pushing the form along.

China more than two milleniums ago had already considered the idea of democracy, but at that time she could not put it into operation.

We were romantics in the 1990s and thought that communism was dead. But 10 years passed, and Putin came, and it became obvious that the process is reversible; that communism will, to varying degrees, return again and again.

Seeing my father's handwriting puts me in contact with the man he was at each stage of his life.

The left puts a lot of faith in a lot of people in the past that were dismal failures that they think are the greatest people who ever lived.

One of the things I've thought about 'Midnight's Children' is that it is a novel which puts a Muslim family at the centre of the Indian experience.

Blackkklansmen' is an important film because it puts a mirror up to the past and present.

I use an Arnold Palmer putter that was probably built back in 1954.

I'm for catching every Japanese in America, Alaska, and Hawai'i now and putting them in concentration camps.

I decided that now is the time to start doing the things that really interest me and I find important. It was in the 10 years of the MacArthur grant that I began working on my first book... and I began putting more work into environmental history.

Every nation has a flag.

For me, the things like the Confederate flag - I just don't think that it does anybody much good, and it certainly causes a lot of people a lot of pain.

The only reason we used the Confederate flag was just because we were from the South, and we were proud of that.

Ric Flair is an old nemesis of mine.

When you think about the Catholic Church, it is a bit flamboyant, in't it?

Look at history; all the interesting women were deeply flawed.

Nobody can look back into our history and look at everyone who contributed into our development as a country and find someone who's flawless.