Quotes About History

I have only been here since 1996 but between 1966 and 1996 England had thirty years without foreign players and didn't win any more competitions in that time.

We've been dealing with this kind of terrorism since the fifties, since the Muslim Brotherhood came to Syria at that time.

For a long time, I'd been vaguely fascinated by the idea that Charles Lindbergh flew the Atlantic and Babe Ruth hit 60 home runs in the same summer.

Man simply cannot live as the time-animal and the art-animal that he is, without history.

I write about times and places I would visit in a time machine, like ancient Rome or the Wild West.

Blot out from the page of history the names of all the great actors of his time in the drama of nations, and preserve the name of Washington, and the century would be renowned.

Ireland's just a place...people go there all the time.

The last time I was in a gym, Dukakis was running for president.

There was a time in America not long ago when rock 'n' roll was called race music, and white kids who wanted to go see Chuck Berry were completely forbidden.

Maps of Time attempts to assemble a coherent and accessible account of origins, a modern creation myth.

The last time the French asked for 'more proof' it came marching into Paris under a German flag

I think of Steely Dan as being of its time, and it may be inseparable from its time.

If Margaret Thatcher had been Prime Minister at the time, there would have been no Treaty of Maastricht.

Everything, everything seemed once-upon-a-time.

The aesthetic discussion of photography is dominated by the concept of time. Photographs appear as devices stopping time and preserving fragments of the past, like flies in amber.

The Earth is big. There are huge natural forces that have worked over geological time. But it turns out, when you look carefully at the geological time, you can't find anything like us.

I always felt like I was born in the wrong time period. I felt like I should've been born in the mid-to-late '40s.

It takes a long time to bring the past up to the present.

I was thinking of writing a little foreword saying that history is, after all, based on people's recollections, which change with time.

We can be revisionist, and that's a good thing to be at times, but we shouldn't airbrush our history, so we can only make judgments in the objective conditions of that time.

He who understands Archimedes and Apollonius will admire less the achievements of the foremost men of later times.

Many of the architects of the Vietnam War became near pariahs as they spent the remainder of their lives in the futile quest to explain away their decisions at the time.

I like the catholicity in time: our tradition is one of 2,000 years.

I once read that more millionaires per capita were created during the Great Depression than at any other time in history.