Quotes About History

Radical Islam has been the foe of Christendom for centuries.

Unless things change radically, President Bush will be the first President since Herbert Hoover to have presided over a net loss of jobs during his administration.

The Bible is a radically pro-slavery document. Slave owners waved Bibles over their heads in the Civil War and justified it.

The Caribbean world has changed radically since the 1960s, and postcolonial generations have very different mentalities from those that went before.

A conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after they're dead.

In museums and palaces we are alternate radicals and conservatives.

I was born during the Depression in a little community just outside Waco, and I grew up listening to Franklin Roosevelt on the radio.

In 1918, when I was 6 or 7 years old, radio was just coming into use in the Great War.

I was a child actor in radio, and there's not many of us left.

There was never a golden era of American radio as far as I can tell.

I was born in 1942, so I was mainly aware of Howard Hughes' name on RKO Radio Pictures.

Raft Point is among the greatest examples of ancient indigenous art we know of.

The new rage is to say that the government is the cause of all our problems, and if only we had no government, we'd have no problems. I can tell you, that contradicts evidence, history, and common sense.

I've grown up with jazz - the Joe Hendersons, Oliver Nelsons, Miles Davis and stuff - but I was also listening to, like, Slipknot, Korn, and Rage Against the Machine. There was all of that weaved - interweaved - in there, and being from L.A., you tend to know your musical history.

With the reorganization of 1898 finished, the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad entered a new period in its history.

This is our history - from the Transcontinental Railroad to the Hoover Dam, to the dredging of our ports and building of our most historic bridges - our American ancestors prioritized growth and investment in our nation's infrastructure.

For 50 years my father worked for the railroad.

I come from a line of railroad men. My great-grandfather was a surveyor for the Burlington Railroad.

When more Chinese started coming after the Gold Rush, employed on large projects like the Pacific Railroad, anti-Chinese sentiment became shrill.

To fully understand the roots of anti-Asian prejudice in America, you need to know about the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 that banned all immigration from China, even though it was Chinese immigrants that had essentially built America's railroad system.

Writing my novel 'The Narrow Road to the Deep North,' I came to conclude that great crimes like the Death Railway did not begin with the first beating or murder on that grim line of horror in 1943.

For much of history it was possible to believe that the great diversity of life on Earth was a fixed creation, that the living world had never changed. But when the first stirrings of industry demanded that fuel be dug from the earth and hillsides be leveled for roads and railways, the Earth's true past was dug up in abundance.

There is something about the name Berlin that evokes an image of men in hats and long coats standing under streetlamps on rainy nights.

We must do our best to raise the public awareness of the past in all its richness and complexity.