Quotes About History

I say college football began with Rockne.

Bo Schembechler will go down in history as the greatest football coach. He knows the game, he works hard. And he's not a crook.

If you finish the season as a champion and, on top of that, break some records - we would make history as a club and also us as football players.

I came from a long line of football players.

There is a history of footballers in my family; my granddad played for Notts County and my dad played at county level.

We often compare footballers with players of the past.

My history of singing has always probably been closer to a David Bowie approach than, for example, an AC/DC approach.

If al-Qaeda had not had a home in Afghanistan, maybe 9/11 would never have taken place. God forbid if al-Qaeda gets another strong foothold in Afghanistan.

I always wanted to go to Cuba growing up. It was this fascinating, forbidden country that seemed to have a lot of politics and folklore and history behind it.

The food we call soul food is slave food. We were forced to eat it.

Driving a Model T Ford was extremely difficult. The pedals are reversed from the way they are now. It's so crude, but that was the motorcar that started it all. It's an incredible part of history.

How does a woman in authority convey that authority? Is it possible for a woman to rule without sounding shrill? Is it possible for a woman to manage without manipulating? All of these things seem to me to be very much at the fore today, and were no less the case 2,000 years ago.

My own forefathers arrived in America in 1620 on the Mayflower.

Movement is very important to a character, no matter what period you're working in. So when it came to playing Emma Jung and lacing up in the corset, it was really not a foreign thing for me.

And I think the only way you're going to improve US foreign policy and set a sound course for the future is if you're willing to look back at what went wrong before.

I can go on forever, Romania is so beautiful!

Many of my friends were blacklisted. America should be ashamed of it forever.

If a country forgets where it came from, how will its people know who they are?

Each kind of generation of bands forgets how they got here. Waylon Jennings came out and they're like, 'That's not Patsy Cline.' And everyone panicked, like, 'I don't know what happened to country music, but this isn't it.'

People are forgetting how crazy President 43 was.

We have all forgot more than we remember.

I think it is very important that films make people look at what they've forgotten.

I mean, you know, actors lives - you're forgotten. Look at Barrymore, and look at all the great actors. They're forgotten after awhile.

Eaten bread is forgotten.