Quotes About History

Before I read the 'Bloody Sunday' script, I have to admit I hadn't thought about it that much. There was probably even part of me which assumed there was no smoke without fire. That the Catholics who were shot must have done something to provoke such a response from the army. I was extremely ignorant of the whole situation.

No one wanted to own Bloody Sunday.

The walk from Selma to Montgomery that turned into Bloody Sunday leaves us with a strong reminder of how much those before us gave for basic human rights.

Were it not for Jackie Robinson, Branch Rickey would be remembered, if at all, as a Bible-thumping midwestern Methodist windbag who neither played baseball on Sundays when he was a mediocre catcher for the St. Louis Browns and the New York Highlanders, nor attended games on the Sabbath as a baseball executive.

Re-recording 'Naino mein sapna' for me was like being a part of history. Never before has a son sung the same song in the same style which was rendered by his father 30 years ago.

The magnitude of the film and the life of Gandhi had not yet sunk in then as it is now when I look back.

I love insane, stupid comedy, but I can only make it work if it's a character I can give some history to and make real. Like the guy I played in 'Little Miss Sunshine.' He's a maniac, but to me he was absolutely believable.

Los Angeles has been historically known for some great Super Bowls.

It would be incredibly presumptuous and self-serving of me to believe that Facebook was the end of history. The only way it could possibly be the end of history is if it becomes some sort of artificial super intelligence that takes over the world.

You can't talk about the NFL without the Raiders, the three Super Bowl championships, what Al Davis meant to the league.

It's sad that Walter Payton was not known as the greatest running back to play the game until they won the Super Bowl.

We haven't won a Super Bowl in, I think, 50 years, so the Jets fans who are out there are die-hard Jets fans. It's like generational fandom.

Someone pointed out that Dick Enberg and Curt Gowdy are the only two ever to call a Super Bowl and a Final Four. So I'll be the third. I get a kick out of putting my name in the same sentence as those other two giants.

I think the AFL was capable of beating the NFL in a Super Bowl game as far back as 1960 or '61. I just regret we didn't get the chance to prove it.

The most superficial student of Roman history must be struck by the extraordinary degree in which the fortunes of the republic were affected by the presence of foreigners, under different names, on her soil.

I must begin by saying something about the old Germany. That Germany, too, suffered from superficial judgment, because appearances and reality were not always kept apart in people's minds.

To deal with the true causes of war one must begin by recognizing as of prime relevancy to the solution of the problem the familiar fact that civilization is a partial, incomplete, and, to a great extent, superficial modification of barbarism.

You don't have to be a superhero to change the arc of history.

A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship.

Across the moment, aeons speak with aeons. More than we experienced has gone by.

Though the Mongols stopped (or were stopped) before reaching Delhi, they destroyed much of Punjab.

Jallianwala Bagh's dead and dying spent the 13th night with dogs and vultures.

at times several misls together formed a dal khalsa to launch an attack on an Afghan post.

Jatts, Rajputs, Gujjars, Gakhars and others—accepted Islam during the Sultanate era