History Quote by Chuck D

If I knew I could never come back to Ireland, to England, I think I'd fall off the tree.

— Pierce Brosnan

I've always liked it here. Part of me is Irish. My family comes from the west coast, so whenever I come to Ireland I…

— Billy Connolly

Whenever I come to Ireland, I end up just bantering with the crowd so the show will just be what it is.

— Russell Howard

“National-ism seeks legitimacy from the past and history therefore becomes a sensitive subject”

— Romila Thapar

I don't know why anybody would come to Ireland chasing a dream or even employment - that's an extraordinary thing for a place where…

— Neil Jordan

At Leeds I've tried to concentrate on my club form, but you get caught up in all the World Cup fever once you come…

— Robbie Keane

I spend most of my time in London but I come back to Ireland whenever I can.

— Rory Gallagher

I think the Internet was the saving grace for Public Enemy. Before that, travelling the world saved Public Enemy.

— Chuck D

Believe me, as one who has seen a number of international crises firsthand, they cannot be handled without an understanding of history.

— Pierre Salinger

My goal was to have as many of the primary sources as I could made available for people to look at and understand. Climate…

— Bill McKibben

Without understanding your history, you can't get a perspective about the present.

— Bill Duke

However rich we may become in knowledge of the deeper causes of historical results, we forgo all understanding of history if we forget this…

— William Ernest Hocking

Our understanding of history goes awry when we only tell one part of the story.

— Christopher Jackson

“Without a good understanding of history how can we make informed and therefore good and sensible decisions about current issues? The future then can…

— Keith Tonkin

“At her tender age she was incapable of understanding such a history,”

— Christine Feehan