Explore Quotes on History

It's not enough to just be a good singer. You have to know where your roots come from. If you sing jazz, you should know all about jazz. You should look into, as much as you possibly can, the history of it, so that you're and educated and well-informed performer.

I keep my Scottish connection. I know where I was born, and that's an important part of my history, and I think all immigrants are the same. But if I could live anywhere in the world, it would be Australia.

The injustices endured by black Americans at the hands of their own government have no parallel in our history, not only during the period of slavery but also in the Jim Crow era that followed.

History shows that you can't - you can't have security in Southeast Asia without security in Northeast Asia. It's just the reality.

Mr. Speaker, we have reached a point in history where some have forgotten that it is the family, not the government, that is the fundamental building block of our society.

I've done more impeachments than anybody else in the history of the country.

I like stories. I like to figure out how history ties to the present.

Since 1934 every accomplished player in golf has come to the Augusta National looking for an introduction into history.

George H.W. Bush had perhaps the greatest resume in American history. Director of the CIA, ambassador to the U.N., envoy to China, vice president of the United States and then, of course, president. It's staggering to contemplate one person achieving so much.

History often reads as a hard and grim experience. But people are remarkably resilient and funny, even when the going is very hard.

The hallmark of our times is change and acceleration, but we have to provide the history.

History provides a sense of where we've been and lessons that can be taken forward.

Rockfield is a famous studio where we recorded early Simple Minds songs. It holds a bit of our own history and Queen recorded 'Bohemian Rhapsody' there.

If you read enough biography and history, you learn how people have dealt successfully or unsuccessfully with similar situations or patterns in the past. It doesn't give you a template of answers, but it does help you refine the questions you have to ask yourself.

When you have a Green Lantern mixing with a foil like Batman, you get scenes that are comic-book history. There's the epicness of it all.

'Watchmen' is a cornerstone of both DC Comics' publishing history and its future.

When a character has as wide an audience and as rich a history as Batman, it's truly exciting to see him introduced into an all-new storytelling medium. BATMAN LIVE will bring a completely new experience to fans of the character - it's great to be able to give them something they haven't seen before.

I'm really proud to say that in the recorded history of our family, we've never had a divorce or any kind of homosexual relationship.

Every single immigrant is part of a larger history that needs to be communicated in all its ambivalences and complexities.

Everyone says I should write a natural history or landscape book because if I have an area of amateur expertise, it is in those things.

I thought the Rousey match was the best major league debut in the history of wrestling. They did the right thing at the right time at the right pace and took people on a roller coaster ride. That, to me, was a pro wrestling match. I couldn't find fault with it, except I wish that Ronda had come out with her game face on when she did her entrance.