Quotes About History

My family had been involved in gangs since the 1970s.

Before we made films about gangsters, everything was about the royal families. They contain so much drama.

I was always interested in the 1920s and the gangster world, in general.

I am always watching old films and trying to fill gaps in my knowledge.

Garbage is the part of your history you don't want your family to know about.

The history behind the Garden and all the players that have come through and played on that court in the Garden, I think that the history is the reason why it still is, in my mind, the mecca of basketball. It definitely draws me in. That's the thing about New York; that's a big thing about the history, and the Garden is a big part of that.

I bought a former library, not because I have a lot of books, but also I like architecture, and it was built in 1965, and I like gardening.

I'm not saying that the gas chambers didn't exist. I couldn't see them myself.

Gay writers now have both a sense of history and the fables that allows them to dwell in the realms of the ridiculous and at the same time talk seriously about things.

What was interesting was talking to older gay men about what it was like being gay in the Eighties.

I filed the first gay rights bill in Massachusetts history in 1972 in the legislature, one of the first in the country.

St. Petersburg is a gem of world culture and Russia's most European city.

Drag is literally so ancient that it predates modern understanding of gender, of transness, of queerness. Drag predates modern ideas of gender, of theater at all. Drag predates the word 'drag' itself.

Gender rules were made to be broken, especially if you have been told throughout history that you're 'less than.'

Docs, in general, are made in the edit bay, archival docs even more so.

I think we're at a point in history where, generally, people consider themselves to be feminists in the sense that we believe in the equality of the sexes.

I caddied for Dwight Eisenhower and Omar Bradley long before they became generals or president, for that matter. Just between you and me, Bradley tipped better than Eisenhower did.

Anita Bryant is an important figure in gay history because she enraged a generation of people who got active.

Passion has been in my DNA for generations.

Whole generations have forgotten history.

We've flown the president since Eisenhower, and we're going to continue to fly the president for generations to come. This is something we're very proud of.

Writing about carrying the past on your back is a manifestation of my Irishness, because we go on and on and will for another two or three generations.

I'm just so proud to be from San Francisco and to have a family history there. It's only two generations back, but still, it's two generations in San Francisco. I love it. I'm so proud of it.

Our country has a rich history and so diversified, which should be acknowledged by the younger generations.