Quotes About History

My dad was born in 1930 in Lithuania, located in Eastern Europe. He was 9 years old when the war started, and his family was sent to the Kovno ghetto. They were soon separated and sent to the Dachau concentration camp in Germany.

I was brought up in this part of Detroit that they used to call the ghetto.

Everyone has a ghost story, or at least that's how it has always seemed to me.

I love a good ghost story, and I love to just get in there and really just find the truth behind these stories.

Over the years, I've enjoyed working for WFAN and MSG - two sports giants in the industry. There couldn't be a better fit due to the long-standing history both entities have had with NY sports.

I stand on the shoulders of giants.

I don't think there's anywhere else better than the Giants in terms of organization and history.

I faced Gibson many times and faced Sandy Koufax three times.

We make sure that we continue to educate our youth on who Althea Gibson and Arthur Ashe were.

When you're on tour. there's a contract between you and the audience: do what you want, as long as you do what we want. You're having to play with the past at every gig.

Sept. 11 jolted America out of its second gilded age.

I mean everybody's got ex-boyfriends and girlfriends. Everybody's got baggage.

I believe black characters in fiction are still revolutionary, given our long history of erasure.

I believe that you should not be just raised on what the music is right then. You should be raised on what is from your past, what your parents have grown up with, because it's a really big piece of your culture that you need to know about, and I'm glad my mother has done that for me.

I'm just glad we get to see old records being broken. That's what sports is all about.

I am certainly glad to be the first Chilean ever playing for Arsenal. I will do my best to achieve every possible thing with the club.

I don't believe in past lifetimes, but if there was one, I had to be a gladiator.

I don't think of the crown as this glamorous thing. It's this murderous, bejeweled thing, the crown.

At first glance, the story of the Lusitania doesn't seem like the sort of thing I would take on. I usually like ideas that are a little bit more complex, things that people don't know about - or maybe they once did, but now you bring it to life for them for the first time.

People often look at the past through the rose-tinted glass, but if you go back to 'Top Gear' 2000/2002 the chemistry wasn't there, it took time to grow.

What would the world say if the Globe, now that it has at last been found, is not excavated?

The international launch of 'Undeniable' is special because now fans all across the globe can laugh along to some of the funniest jokes in history.

Latin Americans glorify their past so ceaselessly that they make it almost impossible to advocate change.

Visva-Bharati has a glorious legacy.