Historical Appreciation Quotes

Yeah, I love history and I loved it as a kid.

We need to develop respect for our history, despite all of its flaws, and love for the Fatherland. We need to pay the utmost attention to our common moral values and consolidate Russian society on this basis. I think that this is an absolute priority.

To give credit to Lincoln for moral progression seems beyond the facts and unnecessary for our appreciation of this arguably greatest of all American presidents.

I had access to books, and I could read... but that more foundational, basic historical awareness, I didn't have any of that.

To me history ought to be a source of pleasure. It isn't just part of our civic responsibility. To me it's an enlargement of the experience of being alive, just the way literature or art or music is.

My mother has always been an Anglophile and taught my sister and me to love British history and literature.

I love history, and I thought I knew history well, but I was shocked by how little I knew about it.

I like American history.

It is an unscrupulous intellect that does not pay to antiquity its due reverence.

I think there are nice things about every era. I wish we could just take the nice things.

There can be no dedication to Canada's future without a knowledge of its past.

Did I invent anything? I don't think so, not really. But if I've helped make history fun... then my work here is done.

For over 20 years, I was in the Army, and it's given me a real love of history.

You learn history in school, and you have a reverential feeling toward it. But by being irreverent, it feels current.

As a kid, I sensed history going on all around me, but the basic thrust of it didn't move me.

As somebody who thinks Tennessee history is important, I want to make certain that's still a part of the curriculum. I think that's critical for the people growing up in our school system.

It's always fun to immerse yourself in a different time period.

I'm very proud of Soviet aesthetics.

I think whatever generation you're in has a nostalgia for the generations past and the generations you weren't in.

We all prosper when folks are more appraised of how great those matches were and how great those talents were from all of the guys who populated the NWA in the '80s.

The older I get, the more I appreciate what came before.

Only by painting the great panorama of history, can the great history-reading public be entertained or satisfied.

What would be the nicest thing I could say about Newt Gingrich? He may be one of the great supporters of the humanities, because you have people who don't want to study the social sciences, because it's not profitable, and now Newt, as the highest-paid historian in American history, may be an encouragement to people to study history.