Quotes About History

I flew an H3 Sea King. The most famous Sea King is Marine One.

In Florence, classical buildings sit against medieval buildings. It's that contrast we like.

Jaipur, like Florence or Kyoto, other artisan-rich cities to which it roughly compares, has always been known for its craftsmanship.

Florence Nightingale. She is one of the most dynamic social entrepreneurs in history.

I laugh when Floyd Mayweather says that if he went back in time he would beat us all. I'll tell you this: if he was in the same era as Hagler and Hearns and Leonard and me, I don't think he would be such a big name. There is too much talk.

I was the first woman Marine to fly in an F-18 in combat, and I got to land on aircraft carriers.

I focused on how these people became how they were.

In taking Dell private, we plan to go back to our roots, focusing on the entrepreneurial spirit that made Dell one of the fastest-growing and most successful companies in history.

I think that focusing all experiences through the lens of the Internet is an example of not being able to see history through the eyes of others, to be so enamored of one's present time that one cannot see that the world was once elsewise and was not about you.

I was a pretty delinquent little kid. My folks and I didn't get along, so I basically moved out... put myself through high school and then college by working. I'm only a half-year short of a degree in history.

The history of Brazil goes from Pele to Garrincha, Didi, Tostao, Gerson, then to all of us who followed them.

I work for the Chicago Cubs, a team with a following so loyal and adoring and a history so forlorn that we were known nationwide as the Loveable Losers.

Trouble follows the Clintons everywhere.

Much of the wisdom of one age, is the folly of the next.

I'm very fond of an old map of London that used to belong to my father. I'm a big London fan, and the evolution of the city is astonishing, when you look back to Pepys and how small it was - everyone knew each other.

I've played a lot of cricket at Trent Bridge over the years, and have had a lot of fond memories there.

Food is a lens for culture.

I know a lot of Eastern Europeans, and because of what they have been through and what they have seen, they have an attitude where they are not easily fooled.

American education has been littered with failed fads and foolish ideas for the past century.

Major Lazer has always been a culture mashup, and to us, India feels like some kind of special creature with one foot in history and one firmly in the future.

We're trying to keep the 'foot' in 'football.'

I was not born when my father retired in 1979, but I watched footage of his games on VHS.

Baseball is what we were, and football is what we have become.

Dementia pugilistica was discovered in 1928... And we still have boxing. Football will continue.