#history

Why would you create a movie for black people if you don't understand the history and perspective of the people you are doing it for? You need historical perspective to make sound decisions. ↗

— Tim Reid

#create #decisions #doing #historical #history

This anniversary serves to help remind the American people that, in the wake of one of the greatest political scandals and misuse of power in our history as a nation, scandal produced important reforms that served this nation well for two decades. ↗

— Elliot Richardson

#american people #anniversary #decades #greatest #help

History will eventually depict as legitimate the efforts of the Iraqi resistance to destabilise and defeat the American occupation forces and their imposed Iraqi collaborationist government. ↗

— Scott Ritter

#defeat #depict #efforts #eventually #forces

I always enjoyed art history because, growing up in California, my exposure was limited, and it was a new experience. To learn the history of art opened up certain things to me, made me see. It intrigued me. ↗

— Herb Ritts

#art #art history #because #california #certain

Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is God's gift, that's why we call it the present. ↗

— Joan Rivers

#gift #god #history #mystery #present

Martha Washington. I think she's done herself a disservice in history with a little cap, you know? She looks like a namby-pamby little grandmotherly type, but she turned out to be a very strong woman. ↗

— Cokie Roberts

#disservice #done #herself #history #i

I was bused to a school in Gerritsen Beach in Brooklyn in 1972. I was one of the first black kids in the history of the school. ↗

— Chris Rock

#black #brooklyn #first #history #i

I learned more from my mother than from all the art historians and curators who have informed me about technical aspects of art history and art appreciation over the years. ↗

— David Rockefeller

#appreciation #art #art history #aspects #historians

All through history, there have always been movements where business was not just about the accumulation of proceeds but also for the public good. ↗

— Anita Roddick

#also #always #been #business #good

I believe very strongly, and have fought since many years ago - at least over 30 years ago - to get architecture not just within schools, but architecture talked about under history, geography, science, technology, art. ↗

— Richard Rogers

#ago #architecture #art #believe #fought