Lupita Nyong'o Quotes

I think people should look at learning about Native American history the same as visiting Washington, D.C., and seeing the monuments there. It's all part of the package.

Seeing that picture, for me, was like Chartres Cathedral.

But when you see personal artifacts relating to - by genealogy at least - a living human being, it was just more impressive to me than just about anything I've ever read about slavery before.

Speaking as somebody who is half English and half Hungarian, World War I still seems to me a familiar and seismic event, as if it had only just ended.

For me, clothing has always been connected to history. That's what draws me in.

This is an hour of history that troubles our minds and hurts our hearts.

Moscow... how many strains are fusing in that one sound, for Russian hearts! What store of riches it imparts!

There's such a history, and to be here, and to feel that, is really amazing.

The song that nerves a nation's heart is in itself a deed.

But I think if any song can touch the heart, then one should value it.

Carve your name on hearts, not on marble

Paris is the fountain-head of European civilisation, as Gomukhi is of the Ganga.

Those of you who have been there [Haiti] know it is one of the most beautiful countries in the world. It has everything. It has everything above the ground, and everything under the ground.... It is an amazing place. I strongly recommend that whenever you get a chance, if you haven't been there, that you go to Haiti. I think it was a certain Queen of England who said that after her death "Calais" would be found written on her heart. When I die, I think that "Haiti" is going to be written on my heart.

History is remembered by its art, not its war machines.

The world of books is the most remarkable creation of man. Nothing else that he builds ever lasts. Monuments fall; nations perish; civilizations grow old and die out; and, after an era of darkness, new races build others. But in the world of books are volumes that have seen this happen again and again, and yet live on, still young, still as fresh as the day they were written, still telling men's hearts of the hearts of men centuries dead.

No place is a place until things that have happened in it are remembered in history, ballads, yarns, legends, or monuments. Fictions serve as well as facts.

Do you not see how strange and wonderful that is? That all history balances on an affair of the human heart?

For people, 'here' signifies not merely a physical space, but also an historical space.

The artists we love, they put their fingerprint on your imagination, and on your heart and your soul.

When mighty roast beef was the Englishman's food It ennobled our hearts and enriched our blood-- Our soldiers were brave and our courtiers were good. Oh! the roast beef of England. And Old England's roast beef.

People tell me, 'Bill, let it go. The Kennedy assassination was years ago. It was just the assassination of a President and the hijacking of our government by a totalitarian regime - who cares? Just let it go.' I say, 'All right then. That whole Jesus thing? Let it go! It was 2,000 years ago! Who cares?'

It’s history. It’s poetry.

That genius is feeble which cannot hold its own before the masterpieces of the world.

Never is a historic deed already completed when it is done but always only when it is handed down to posterity. What we call "history" by no means represents the sum total of all significant deeds.... World historyonly comprises that tiny lighted sector which chanced to be placed in the spotlight by poetic or scholarly depictions.

Classical buildings endure because they are loved, admired and accepted, and enjoy an innate adaption to human needs and purposes.