Famous quotes by Historians

"Assuming China does not become destabilized and continues to grow, it will no doubt develop a military program in proportion to its resources"

Martin van Creveld, Historian

"As the game enters its glorious final weeks, the chill of fall signals the reality of defeat for all but one team. The fields of play will turn brown and harden, the snow will fall, but in the heart of the fan sprouts a sprig of green"

John Thorn, Historian

"The problem is that you cannot prove yourself against someone who is much weaker than yourself"

Martin van Creveld, Historian

"Why we play as children is not because it is our work or because it is how we learn, though both statements are true; we play because we are wired for joy, it is imperative as human beings"

John Thorn, Historian

"The caliber of play suffered and attendance declined year by year. Interest in college football was exploding, and there was this new game called basketball"

John Thorn, Historian

"Award trophies, as opposed to letting the players define and claim their own. Ultimately, pay them to play so that their activity not only resembles work but is work"

John Thorn, Historian

"And then came the nineties, when management, suddenly frightened that they had ceded control to the players, sought to restore baseball's profitability by 'running the game like a business'"

John Thorn, Historian

"This was nostalgia in the literal Greek sense: the pain of not being able to return to one's home and family"

John Thorn, Historian

"If I haven't made myself clear, this worrisome chain of events describes the game of the nineteenth century"

John Thorn, Historian

"But the dream is never forgotten, only put aside and never out of reach: Where once the dream connected boys with the world of men, now it reconnects men with the spirit of boys"

John Thorn, Historian

"The National League was born the following year, as an attempt to exert the control of capital over labor"

John Thorn, Historian

"My egotistical concern was less that I would fail to relate to my classmates than that they would know nothing of my uniquely tortured life's course and, thus, me"

John Thorn, Historian

"But the citizens of Cincinnati loved their Reds because they won, no matter what their addresses had been the year before. They rooted for the Old-English 'C' on the players' shirts"

John Thorn, Historian

"This illuminates not only fans' interest in major league teams but also the minors and even Little League"

John Thorn, Historian

"There was much woe and lamentation in the seventies that the game was dying"

John Thorn, Historian

"The heroes of our youth grow old - 'the boys of summer in their ruin,' in Dylan Thomas's verse - yet we seem the same"

John Thorn, Historian

"We were, in all, four men with eight animals; for besides the spare horses led by Shaw and myself, an additional mule was driven along with us as a reserve in case of accident"

Francis Parkman, Historian

"We were now arrived at the close of our solitary journeyings along the St. Joseph's trail"

Francis Parkman, Historian

"Many of the Iroquois and Huron houses were of similar construction, the partitions being at the sides only, leaving a wide passage down the middle of the house"

Francis Parkman, Historian

"Once a president gets to the White House, the only audience that is left that really matters is history"

Doris Kearns Goodwin, Historian

"The worst... was what the Pakistani soldiers did to the Bengali women after their failed rebellion"

Iris Chang, Historian

"After working as a journalist, I went to a writing program at Johns Hopkins. It was interesting because it was neither journalistic nor historical, but it emphasized writing style, and afterwards I was asked to write my first book"

Iris Chang, Historian

"Your first duty as a writer is to write to please yourself. And you have no duty towards anyone else"

Iris Chang, Historian

"We have to keep in mind that it's not just about the numbers of people who died; it's also the manner which many of these victims met their deaths"

Iris Chang, Historian

"They probably do have an Asian Barbie"

Iris Chang, Historian

"Somebody who was born in this country, who visited China, would later face difficulty getting back in to the USA. We have to keep in mind that the struggles of the Chinese against these exclusion laws really laid down the foundations of civil rights law"

Iris Chang, Historian

"It's a wonderful thing to see a segment of our population that is open and eager to learn more about Chinese culture. It has filtered into the mainstream. You see credit-card ads on TV with white couples and Chinese babies"

Iris Chang, Historian

"I don't mind solitude. I love talking to other people, but I do need my space"

Iris Chang, Historian

"We were now, as I before mentioned, upon this St. Joseph's trail. It was evident, by the traces, that large parties were a few days in advance of us; and as we too supposed them to be Mormons, we had some apprehension of interruption"

Francis Parkman, Historian

"The reader need not be told that John Bull never leaves home without encumbering himself with the greatest possible load of luggage. Our companions were no exception to the rule"

Francis Parkman, Historian

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