Historical Studies Quotes

South Africa had a long record of studies in prehistory, going back to the end of the last century.

When I was really young, I wanted to be a history teacher because I was obsessed with the past.

I'm really interested in modern history, but to fulfill a History degree at Brown you have to do modern and pre-modern.

I had a minor in Russian history, and this was at the time when the big Cold War was going on.

At the University of California at Berkeley, my interests broadened from military history to diplomatic history and other disciplines.

I definitely love history. I'm not formally trained or educated in history, but you could say I did go back to college in 2008 to do Untold History of the United States. That took five years. Co-author Peter Kuznick has been teaching history for something like 35 years, at American University and other places. His group of researchers brought me into contact with a lot of books.

Before I'm a zombie nerd, before I'm a science-fiction nerd, I am a history nerd.

I guess if I weren't an actor, I'd be a history professor.

I went to medical school after having decided to do so somewhere between my junior and senior year at Harvard - very late. I initially wanted to be an intellectual historian.

The black nation of Egypt is the only country that has a science named after its culture: Egyptology

I'm not a great fiction reader. I love history. I love history and philosophy.

I was always told that I was good in mathematics, and I guess my grades and standardized test scores supported that. My worst subjects were those that generally involved a lot of reading - English and history. So, having good test scores in math and mediocre ones in reading, I was naturally advised to major in engineering in college.

In the India I was growing up in, history wasn't really a wise career option. People would joke and say, 'History's okay, but what's your actual job?' I didn't come from a privileged background and couldn't afford to be irresponsible, so I did the pragmatic thing and did a MBA.

The truth is, I love history and studied it in college, with a particular focus on early American history. My love is so deep, in fact, I went to school at The College of William & Mary in Colonial Williamsburg.

The difference between eccentricity and originality in historical studies is often difficult to detect at first encounter. When a radically new interpretation of a large segment of history makes its appearance, time is needed to sift the evidence.

I am just a history nerd.

You’re probably wasting time on things like eating and sleeping. Cease that, and read all of philosophy and all of literature. Also art. Plus politics and a few other things. The history of everything.

I did a history degree once.

Of all our studies, it is history that is best qualified to reward our research.

When I went to college, my goal was to be a college history teacher. I majored in history.

The Universe repeats itself, with the possible exception of history. Of all earthly studies history is the only one that does not repeat itself. ... Astronomy repeats itself; botany repeats itself; trigonometry repeats itself; mechanics repeats itself; compound long division repeats itself. Every sum if worked out in the same way at any time will bring out the same answer. ... A great many moderns say that history is a science; if so it occupies a solitary and splendid elevation among the sciences; it is the only science the conclusions of which are always wrong.

I want to become a student. I want to read Chinese history and go on a dig.

We are at a point in our work when we can no longer ignore empires and the imperial context in our studies. (p. 5)

I'm really good at math and history, but I suck in English.

I would have been an archaeologist or something, maybe a historian. There are a lot of things I would have liked to have done differently, but everything that happened to me made me the person I am today. No matter how negative it seemed at the time or whatever hardship it seemed to have been at that time, Im just the sum of all those amazing experiences.