Quotes About History

When black Britons draw parallels between their experiences and those of African Americans, they are not suggesting that those experiences are identical.

Magic has been around forever, and it's also been in trouble forever. I'm not suggesting that there was ever a time when the practice of magic was celebrated by those in power. Actually, such practices were routinely demonized by monarchs and organized religions precisely because magic is inherently democratic.

American politicians who dwell on American exceptionalism only dishonor us by suggesting we play dumb to our past.

I'm a creature of the eighteenth century at heart: The Enlightenment and the search for happiness suit me.

Equally, we require a collective past - hence the endless reinterpretations of history, frequently to suit the perceptions of the present.

Put me in a costume, and I'm your man. I must have one of those faces which seems to suit period drama more than modern films and TV programmes. But I'm not complaining, I love going back in time. I feel quite lucky because nobody knows who I am. I can walk about and have ordinary conversations with people.

For me, I wear a suit because I need to remember what's happened before me.

I have no intention of selling any more of the historical Apollo 11 items in my possession for the remainder of my life. I intend to pass a portion of these items on to my children and to loan the most important items for permanent display in suitable museums around the country.

My grandfather was an illegal immigrant for the 60 or so years he was in the United States. I had another great-great-grandmother on my mom's side who snuck in in a suitcase.

The future's come and gone; it's a thing of the past. That once impossibly exotic expression 'the year 2000,' for so long evocative of silver suits and robots in pinnies, now feels antiquated.

I painted myself into a corner by writing a whole book on this one period. The summer of 1927 came to an end, but nothing else did - all of these peoples' lives went on.

In the spring and summer of 1989, a serious political disturbance took place in China.

I was posted to China in the summer of 1988, which was the greatest time ever, I think, to have been in China.

The next summer, 1794, corn grew dear, and distress began in our land.

Queen is my all-time favorite band in history. I was an obsessive growing up after I discovered them at 10 at summer camp.

For all history up to the end of the Cold War, summit meetings were historic and dramatic occasions, when leaders who controlled the destiny of much of the world met to change the world.

I'm from the colonies, so I remember when the sun never set on the British Empire.

I loved Cambodia; watching the sun rise at Angkor Wat was really beautiful.

I realized with Broadway everything written for black people is usually written in the past, and I'm kind of a contemporary guy. I don't think you want to see me in 'Raisin in the Sun'.

My name, Solange, means 'Angel of the sun,' and I'm completely enamored of my African history. The culture is so expressive.

Sun Studios was where so much of American music exploded from.

Not to be a Bible-thumper, but there really is nothing new under the sun.

People out there maybe know who Junior Parker is and some of those Sun Records blues guys.

It's a bit of a history lesson, being an actor. I was in 'Burnt By The Sun' at the National, which was set in Stalinist Russia, so I discovered all about that. You learn so much as you go along.