You absorb 2,000 years of history just by being near the…

Hip hop's got 30 years of history and we wanted to show that. A lot of us grew up with it.

— Axel Alonso

When you pick up an inch of the present to move it, you also pick up several thousand years of history.

— Gordon R Dickson

“next one hundred years we are history”

— Tasleem Khan

Peru was the Incas; it has 3,000 to 4,000 years of history.

— Nobu Matsuhisa

The history of Napoleon now becomes, for 12 momentous years, the history of mankind.

— John Holland Rose

For 217 years, the whole history of the country has been based on conspiracies, coups, assassinations. We conspire to destroy it, never to build it.

— Jovenel Moise

I was born on December 30, 1930 in Ningbo, a city on the east coast of China with a rich culture and over seven…

— Tu Youyou

Everything I loved had been dead for two centuries - or, as in the case of Graeco-Roman classicism, for two milenniums. I am never…

— H. P. Lovecraft

And Thames and all the rivers of the kings Ran into Mississippi and were drowned. They planted England with a stubborn trust But the…

— Stephen Vincent Benet

I've just swum the length of the Thames. I feel quite tired.

— David Walliams

Rupert Grayson manifested a talent for survival: it was said of him that even if - unlikely contingency - he had tried to drown…

— Hugh Massingberd

Because of the Thames I have always loved inland waterways - water in general, water sounds - there's music in water. Brooks babbling, fountains…

— Julie Andrews

I went down to the sewers in London and looked at a campaigning group in London called RATS, Rowers Against Thames Sewage, and I…

— Rose George

I was born in Oslo, Norway, but now live in the suburbs of Southwest London, right near the River Thames. It's a lovely part…

— Alexander Hanson

I've never been far from the river. I'm sort of like a Thames-nymph.

— Natalie Dormer