Quotes About History

When I graduated from law school in 1959, there wasn't a single woman on any federal bench. It wouldn't be a realistic ambition for a woman to want to become a federal judge. It wasn't realistic until Jimmy Carter became our president.

I would say that most of my books are contemporary realistic fiction... a couple, maybe three, fall into the 'historic fiction' category. Science fiction is not a favorite genre of mine, though I have greatly enjoyed some of the work of Ursula LeGuin. I haven't read much science fiction so I don't know other sci-fi authors.

People who like to fume about the manner in which Disney changed beloved classics are often ignorant of history, not to mention the realities of show business.

I've written almost 200 songs with Bad Religion. No matter where you look in our history, the focus has been trying to instill some of these disturbing realities about the world, some of the implications of evolution into an artistic format that can be interpreted by people who may never study evolution.

My father marched in Selma. My father was there in Alabama. That's where I was born. My birth certificate says 'colored.' It does not say I'm African-American or black. So for me, those are real realities that are not subject to opinion.

If you Google a list and just see all the movies that came out in 1984, they're classics, and they define that decade.

Google doesn't really forget.

People who want to know who I am, or my history, put my name into Google.

I've known Al Gore since he was born. He has been the best little boy, he was a boring child, and he has never done anything wrong.

Gore Vidal has been a friend of mine for years, and he's one of the greatest writers in American history.

Revived in this country the long forgotten beauties of Gothic architecture.

I wanted to keep a Gothic cathedral alive in my heart.

For actors, you've gotta sometimes fill in your backstory.

I gotta tell you, Rickey Medlocke lived in some of the most magical years in this world's history. I lived in the '60s. I lived in the '70s, right into the '80s, and man, it was bad to the bone.

I've gotta check, but I think I'll be the first UFC fighter in history to have the lead role in a big movie.

The dead govern the living.

I was determined that no British government should be brought down by the action of two tarts.

If anyone should do any pardoning. I should be the one pardoning the government for what they did to the Japanese-American people.

When I was born, my father was governor of Arkansas.

I use a note-taking system I learned in history class in eleventh grade.

In fifth grade, we did 10 minutes on slavery and 40 minutes on Abraham Lincoln, and in 10th grade you might do 10 minutes on the civil rights era and 40 minutes on Martin Luther King, and that's it.

I've been inside the Anne Frank house. You've only read about Anne Frank in grade school. I've been in it. I've seen the diary. Things that teachers couldn't teach you.

I don't want to give myself grades. I will leave evaluation of my achievements to history.

I did like history. I was always quite interested and got good grades as well.