Historical Importance Quotes

The Old City of Jerusalem is in our hands.

The one challenge you have when you're going back into history is that people, unlike with today's news - we think we know what's happened already - we think that it's history and therefore less interesting.

I believe the history of American music is just as important as anything political because it's changed generations of people.

My father, to me, is an important piece in American history.

India is, the cradle of the human race, the birthplace of human speech, the mother of history, the grandmother of legend, and the great grand mother of tradition. Our most valuable and most instructive materials in the history of man are treasured up in India only.

It's been important to cultures throughout history with the court jester and the witch doctor and the shaman - all preach the same thing.

The Vedic literature opens to us a chapter in what has been called the education of the human race to which we can find no parallel anywhere else.

If the American Revolution had produced nothing but the Declaration of Independence, it would have been worthwhile.

You ought to let the Jews have Jerusalem; it is they who made it famous.

Whether you like it or not, Paris is the beating heart of Western civilisation. It's where it all began and ended.

History is a battleground... but it has always been the case. Remembering is a radical act. Choosing what is important and what belongs in the overstuffed metaphorical dustbin of history is of vital importance.

After all, I think Jerusalem is part of the, of the world's heritage.

The only place that's holier than St. Andrews is Westminster Abbey.

The view of Jerusalem is the history of the world; it is more, it is the history of earth and of heaven.

We need history, not to tell us what happened or to explain the past, but to make the past alive so that it can explain us and make a future possible.

Nothing moves me more than the history of the United States.

Jerry Garcia was a great American master and the Grateful Dead are not just a genuine piece of musical history, but also an important part of American history.

The name of Abraham Lincoln is imperishable.

You cannot underestimate the influence of Shakespeare.

No city in the world, not even Athens or Rome, ever played as great a role in the life of a nation for so long a time, as Jerusalem has done in the life of the Jewish people.

I always wanted to be historical, from almost a baby on, I felt that way about it.

I am a part of history whether people want to take it seriously or not.

The historical importance of a composer does not always go hand in hand with the quality of their work.

The world knows of a vast stock of epic material scattered up and down the nations; sometimes its artistic value is as extraordinary as its archaeological interest, but not always.

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