Quotes About History

You know, I come from six generations of college graduates.

In the 1940s, about 20% of people in the U.S. had graduated from high school, but less than 5% continued their education to get bachelors' degrees or higher.

I did graduate with a bachelor's degree in civil engineering in 1948.

When George Graham was there they complained, harking back to better days, but I think that's a fantasy.

My father worked at the Grain Exchange.

Let the grand errand into America never be forgotten.

Most of the fiction on the California Gold Rush makes it sound like one grand, boyish adventure. However, when you read the real history, you realize that it wasn't that way at all.

I've often accused my grandchildren of never having seen one of my films.

We would go down to Riverside, California, which is very poor now, but that's where my grandfather grew up. He grew up during the Depression in Riverside.

My father didn't know his last name. My father got his last name from his grandfather, and his grandfather got it from his grandfather who got it from the slavemaster.

For all I know, my grandfather was a bank robber in Kilsyth.

I'm so American that I had grandfathers who actually fought a battle against each other.

My grandfather died under house arrest.

My grandfather was born in 1920. His grandfather was born in 1860, at the beginning of the Civil War, into an America where slavery had yet to be abolished. And so, as I have sometimes thought about it, I dodged slavery by just five generations.

In my grandfather's time, the FN was founded largely as an anti-Communist party.

Apparently, my grandfather left from Cork to America without saying goodbye to his mother! The family in Longford is still not happy about that.

My grandfather's from Pinson, Alabama, all the Truckses came from there.

I just really wish I'd met my grandfather.

My grandfather passed away in 1946, too early to see his dream of an independent India being realized.

My grandfather was the champion of the world in boxing in 1921 in the bantamweight and flyweight divisions, and I've just been involved in the fighting world my entire life.

My grandma spelled my name wrong until she died. Like literally, birthday cards, mail, everything.

Alot of my inspiration comes from people that you don't see on TV like my mum and my grandma. There's so much history and knowledge.

My grandmother was a sharecropper. That wasn't even that long ago! My grandma was a sharecropper.

Living with my grandmother in Bath, I sort of thought I was living in the 19th century. My grandmother was someone who, in a way, was rather defiantly trying to live a pre-World War I existence.