Quotes About History

'The Last Kingdom''s got its roots in history, and it's a lot grittier. It doesn't have the 'Game of Thrones' gloss.

The Russian people and Russian culture are the linchpin, the glue that binds together this unique civilization.

Unless you're very boring, I think most people who've lived long enough have something in their past which will never go away.

I have a beautiful Hellenistic gold and garnet ring - it's more than 2,200 years old, but it looks very modern.

Gold is hoarded. It's estimated that 95 percent of all gold ever mined is still around.

People come up to me and say that when I did films, that was the golden era, but I don't agree with that.

I think as time goes on, people may realize the golden age of wrestling may have been in the 1970s and early 1980s.

Whenever someone says, or whenever someone harkens back to, a golden age of the U.S. - usually the '40s or '50s - 90 percent of the time, they're a straight white man.

I think everything works in cycles. I was fortunate enough to come along in the golden age for big men. There were guys like Hakeem Olajuwon and Patrick Ewing.

I'm glad I was part of history, here long after I'm gone.

When I'm dead and gone and my dad is dead and gone, he and I will share a championship with the last name Elliott forever. I don't think it gets any cooler than that.

The game was here long before I was, and will be here long after I'm gone.

It sure is a nice feeling to know that people will remember you after you're gone, that you'll manage to be a little bit of history.

Because the Vikings never documented anything - they couldn't read or write - the history is always gonna be a little up in the air.

Throughout the ages it has always been possible to point to good and bad architecture.

A good art collection is emblematic of the people collecting it.

A 'good' family, it seems, is one that used to be better.

If you ask me what is the best good fortune in my life, of course I say that I have seen in my lifespan the Wall coming down, the reunification.

I was with my ex-husband for eight or nine years, and we became good friends. I met him at university, and our relationship ended. We are still good friends.

Saturdays are set for antique shops. Williamsburg in Brooklyn has some good ones. I get in there and start meddling around with dusty boxes and rickety, worn-in stuff. I like it when I find something with someone else's name on it.

If there is a good story, I will take it up.

It's just a good thing to be a part of history and a lot of people will not be able to say that.

Anytime we're talking about Thurgood Marshall, that's a good thing, I think, because it gives us an opportunity to go back, look at the history, and recognize what his contributions were.

One good thing about television is that you have a lot of people with money who have real good cameras going around to all these countries. You haven't been there? Great. Turn on The History Channel or The Discovery Channel. So, we're lucky in that way.