Quotes About History

But what are nations? What are these groups which are so familiar to us, and yet if we stop to think, so strange; which are as old as history ... what breaks the human race up into fragments so unlike one another, and yet each in its interior so monotonous?

No one has advanced the argument that all-male fighting forces have been handicapped in their war-making abilities over the millennia because they did not include women in their ranks.

I was reading a lot of European history, and I thought Attila the Hun had gotten a bad rap.

If you look at my rap sheet, it's very long.

China is a place where you can experience two very contrasting things coexisting. First, the rich, cultural history of the country - and, second, rapid urbanization.

Horses and mules, and even sail cars, made more rapid progress than did the earliest locomotive.

The moon landing was such a magnificent accomplishment in U.S. space history. I think that boots on the moon was just one indicator of the rapid technology advancement and really just showed what we can do when all of us are dedicated to a single goal over a long period of time.

The Gnostics were rapidly driven out of business by the hierarchical orthodox Christians.

Edward Curtis was a photographer in the late 19th century who tried to document the rapidly disappearing Native Americans. He assembled a canon of work which, today, is exemplary and invaluable.

Benzino has a long, credible history as a rapper and as a producer.

Why shouldn't rap be esoteric, able to take in current events, history and criticism? I guess it's this old idea of containment - that rappers, because they're black, can't and shouldn't aspire to look outside the ghetto for influence.

I was rapping in 1939. It's old. The roots are complex. And kids don't know.

Fugitive slaves were rare then, and as a fugitive slave lecturer, I had the advantage of being the first one out.

It's very rare that Black actors get an opportunity to do period pieces and to have a breadth of characters to choose from in their work.

I don't want to big myself up, but goals like mine leave a mark on history because they're rare.

Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great.

History shows that pay-TV subscribers flee in droves to alternative providers when there is even a rare service disruption - demonstrating a quantifiable value for 'must-have' broadcast programming.

All my high school papers were written in the rare book room.

We are living in one of those rare moments in history when things may come apart and be put back together again in ways that will determine the future for decades or more, despite the endless innovations of technology.

I'm the sort of person who would be perfectly happy spending an entire day in a rare books room.

Older people may have always existed throughout history, but they were rare.

Mythology is a set of primitive lies that people rarely believe. This is rather different from history, which is a set of lies that people actually believe.

Children rarely want to know who their parents were before they were parents, and when age finally stirs their curiosity, there is no parent left to tell them.

We have indeed been fortunate in this country. Over the last 200 some odd years since our Nation was founded, rarely have there been attacks upon our homeland.