Quotes About History

All my family back to the 1700s were water Gypsies. My brothers and me, we were the first ones to be born on dry land. All the rest of them were born on barges in the canals.

Excusing or downplaying British racism with comparisons to the US is a bad habit with a long history.

A house cannot be made habitable in a day; and, after all, how few days go to make up a century.

Family habits die hard.

The country has had enough of the Clintons and the Bushes.

Leadbelly's guitar is in the Rock n' Roll Hall of Fame.

Tammany Hall and slavery usually found 'The Herald' on their side.

I love the building and the history. I understand not many people like me have played there. But the aim is not to conform to that building. It's to bring the Albert Hall into my world.

All great legends and all Hall of Fame fighters have their storylines.

Everything we know about Hamilton, we knew when he was alive, because he told us.

'Born to play? Hmmm. Probably Romeo... or Hamlet, I guess. Also, I'd be a great Alexander the Great.

I learned a lot about Ottoman court, and it was very Shakespearian in essence. Stories like the one in 'Hamlet' did happen several times in the 500 years of Ottoman history.

Every time has its own 'Hamlet.'

I would love to see a real story about Fred Hampton.

Archeology and ecology can go hand in hand.

I was handed a chocolate bar and an M-1 rifle and told to go kill Hitler.

Pain is handed down from one generation to the next.

It was luxuries like air conditioning that brought down the Roman Empire. With air conditioning their windows were shut, they couldn't hear the barbarians coming.

Do you think it's right for Christians to use the names of pagan gods for the days of the week?

That's what high school does for you: gives you some art and music and history so that even if you spend your life raising kids and writing computer programs, still there was a time when you argued about the First Amendment and talked about the Civil War and read Romeo and Juliet.

Reggie Atkinson: Oh God. Oh God. I went to war with the Nazis... and for 25 years, all I've been scared of is Americans.

After all, you can't really blame the Waffen S.S. for doing what comes naturally. But a funny thing happened on the way to the moral high ground.

Will Morven be a good queen? Um, said Anya, flustered. She's the oldest... Bert's eyes opened wider, questioningly. And that makes her fit to rule? Tell me, in your reading, do you study history?

This history of liberty is a history of the limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it.