Quotes About History

In 1989, when I was just a baby, we moved to France because of some conflicts that were brewing in Armenia.

San Francisco is perhaps the most European of all American cities.

What a ball from Frank. Frank and I go back years. He used to do that when I was at Ajax.

I've been watching Frank Shamrock fight since the beginning.

My family is very excited about me doing Anne Frank.

I'm often asked, 'Why didn't Benjamin Franklin ever become president?' My short, easy answer is: He died.

I met senators, diplomats and the President of the United States, Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

Frankly, it is very hard to remember things from the 1970s.

I'm not one of those freaks who can't see anything past 1977.

Alabama has a history of safeguarding our freedom of religion.

I am very proud of this work because it is more about the meaning of the Easter Rising and its relationship to what this whole century has been about, people liberating themselves, freeing themselves.

The French have made conversation their claim to civilisation.

There's something Vichy about the French.

Mom's dad was in the army, stormed the beach at Normandy, fought through the French hedgerows, the Battle of the Ardennes, the Battle of the Bulge, and liberated concentration camps at the end of the war.

It is a curious fact that the word 'essayist' showed up in English before it existed in French.

Before the American Revolution there were frequent slave uprisings, and a lot of people would run away.

I always wanted to be a Freshman because XXL is really important in the history of hip-hop. It embodies the culture.

When you've known someone for so long you never lose that friendship.

I love the Dream Theater guys dearly and have a long history, friendship, and bond that runs incredibly deep with them - it's just that I think we are in serious need of a little break.

I have got some fantastic friendships that I have had for a long, long time.

Most of my really strong friendships are with people I've known all my life.

Where in the world would I rather be than on the front line of history?

There is a terrible garrulousness in most American writing, legacy of the old Frontier.

Ever since Eve gave Adam that forbidden fruit, demonizing and disbelieving women has been the planet-wide policy. You don't need to reach back to the Pleistocene to see the truth of that.